Sunday, July 22, 2012

Failed Gun Culture, Failed Argument

The reality is, guns DO kill people.  It is a specious argument to say guns don't kill people, people kill people.

People USING GUNS kill people. 

They kill people more effectively than other means of violence, including as a means for people acting impulsively to kill themselves. 

We have a lot of mass shootings in this country, compared to other countries where they have more reasonable, more restrictive gun regulation.  Clearly, these mass shootings are significantly avoidable, if not entirely avoidable.  Nations like Australia and the U.K. or Norway rarely have a problem with mass shootings once every 10 to 15 ears or more.  Canada has had a couple, very recently; they blame guns coming over the border from the U.S., falling into the wrong hands, circumventing their gun laws.  It happens in Mexico as well; we are a bad neighboring country with which to share a border in that regard.

We are not more free because of gun ownership. We are not more safe because of more firearms either.  Ballots, not bullets make us free.  People being people, not corporations being people make us free.  The right is wronging this country, and demonstrating failed reason as the so often do, in not limiting easy firearms  to both legal and illegal possessers, but instead trying to prevent legal voters from having easy access to the ballot box, on the pretext of non-existent voter fraud.

It might be different - MIGHT be a different story, IF there were actual significant voter fraud; there isn't.  Speculating there might be, if someone cannot prove it to exist -- and if voter fraud DID exist sufficient to alter election outcomes, more instances would be provable (if not all) than show up now.

Here are a couple of editorial cartoons that highlight important issues:



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