Reply #13: I love it [View All]

[krispos42]

Income disparity, irrational drug laws, crappy educational system, gutted unions, corporate dominance of the political and governmental process, lack of a social safety net... none of this matters, of course.


If we just had as few guns in as few hands as the UK, we'd have about the same homicide rate! :think:



Or not.



In fact, if I had to guess, I'd say it was the conservatives pushing "less guns will solve our problems" because it distracts from the REAL issues. And to fix the REAL issues would require:

• A Johnson/Nixon/Ford/Carter-era progressive income tax for corporations and individuals


• Legalization of recreational drugs and the subsequent gutting of the prison-industrial, private-prison complex, and the DEA.


• Increasing government-run schools and raising taxes for those schools


• Restoring skilled labor rights and privileges at the cost of corporate profits


• Ending globalization; withdrawing from the WTO and NAFTA; re-imposing protective tariffs; breaking up monopolies; campaign-finance reform


• Removing the income cap on FICA taxes and as a result taxing the rich more; universal-single payer health insurance and as a result gutting the private insurance companies.

So, do the above list? Or blame guns?