Reply #69: Few are trying to prohibit the sale of alcohol these days. The same isn't true about guns [View All]

[friendly_iconoclast]

Some of them even post here. As far as reducing harms, the NRA supported the Gun Control Act of 1968 and the national instant
background check system. The fact that they don't go as far as you'd like doesn't mean they're not trying to reduce harm.

What you said about alcohol could be easily said about guns:

Prohibiting guns isn't a panacea. But you'll note that we now have content rules and labels for guns, significant regulation of the distribution of guns, all sorts of public education and information about harms associated with guns, and other social measures to address the harms associated with them.

You plainly don't like the idea of uppity women trying to protect women and children from the depredations wrought by men, be it as a result of their alcohol consumption or their gun play.

Do you know this via telepathy, or the fact that I don't agree with you on these issues?

As a matter of fact, I don't have much problem with liquor laws as extant (save for the inability to legally acquire
Clear Spring around here), nor do I hold with spousal or child abuse.

What I don't like is the idea of trying to do things that will impinge mostly on people who are not
those you are purportedly trying to affect. "Disagrees with iverglas" =/= "dislikes 'uppity' women", no matter how much
how often you proclaim the equivalence of the two.