Reply #131: I understand - those urban legislators need a better tool set to work with [View All]

[slackmaster]

Gun bans are only one way (and IMO a very ineffective one) of addressing violent crime.

It's silly. Hell, I'm a gardener. It really ticks me off that I can't grow marijuana, opium poppies, magic mushrooms, or any other plant I want.

I hear you. I'm a gardener too. You and I both know that a lot of people grow cannabis in spite of its illegality. Opium poppies too. (In fact I grow those as ornamentals, which is legal as long as you aren't cultivating opium.) Gun laws are the same way. A lot of people break them, both good people who view them as a nuisance and just want to be left alone and bad people who have evil intent. They're very hard to enforce.

It's always challenging to understand someone else's point of view, especially when they are passionate about something you don't like or just plain don't care about.

And it's Republicans who constantly pass those stupid laws making it illegal for me to grow a poppy, for crying out loud. But I don't list it as the #1 issue bothering me.

If Democrats were really any better on cultivation of MJ, there would be at least some hope of getting cannabis cultivation legalized in the present Congress. You and I both know there isn't any chance of that happening any time soon.

I don't see it as an R vs. D thing. To me it's authoritarianism vs. freedom. Many gun people feel the same way (and I readily acknowledge that some gun people are motivated by far-right ideas too).