Progressives and gun control

Was the American Revolution settled by a debate? Pleasant conversation over coffee?

The far left can't get it out of their collective heads that not all gun owners are xenophobic, drunken rednecks that abuse their wives. Unstable people kill people. They could do it with a steel pipe. Would you ban steel pipes? Do children that drown in swimming pools mean we should ban swimming pools? Remember the HuffingtonPost blogger who who stabbed her lover 222 times. With a screw-driver! Shit, I'd have to take a 10 minute break at 60 strokes, maybe even pack a sack lunch if I planned it.

Let's focus these well intentioned but stupid efforts on the greatest priority first. The indiscriminate bombing of people, especially by the US and Israel (other countries do it, just not as good) Let's take the guns away from the governments of the world, who incidentally make far greater use of guns, warships, bombs and land mines than your ordinary citizen. The Amish have guns, should we take them away from them? Governments are far better at killing than their citizens. Would you disarm them? You would start an ineffective advocacy group to make people "aware" of their suffering, solicit donations from the victims and end up buying executive office furniture with the donations and claim "operating expenses."

People collect guns, beanie babies and baseball cards. True, not every needs an automatic rifle, but most don't own them. This is simply being blown out of proportion. They are conventions for knives and seminars designed for unethical sales techniques.

I believe people who possess large quantities of beanie babies should be monitored. It should require a federal license.

So, America has a population of 300 million now. An extremely small percentage of people commit violent crimes. Within a population you can most certainly expect something to happen.

What about Switzerland? For starters, this neutral country arms citizens. They don't have the culture of violence we do.

Leave rednecks alone. We are mostly Irish, Scottish, and Germans, we built this country and get shit on by the type of rhetoric espoused by feel-good progressive ideology, which is usually nothing but talk. The world is an ugly place and the poor white and black trash bear the brunt of inequality. Lets' tackle education, health care and bringing American Industry back. Foreign labor is bad enough, they don't get paid shit but it's because people are losing jobs here. Desperate people do commit desperate acts. Why don't the true ideals of progressives stay on track with equality and public welfare rather than guns. Solve these issues and the issue of guns used for committing violent crimes will drop like failing of a cliff. You'll get far greater results from prevention of these contributing social ills than treating the symptom, gun control.

So why do gun control progressives hem and haw over this? It's the simplest part of the equation that can understand. They can justify the idea since they are so much more informed than you and care more. It's about awareness people, than only people following this mindset can have.

The real problem is both progressives and conservative can't meet in the middle but expect people to follow these stupid ass arguments because they loathe moderates and each carry around the "holier than thou attitude." It's either guns at any cost or no guns at all.

Why don't you focus on the jackasses who ran Tyco, Enron, Arthur Andersen, WorldCom. These are the greatest crooks on the planet. WHITE COLLAR CRIME!

Gun use for self-defense should not be a crime, guns used to commit crimes are and should simply be enforced. This country is harder on drug users than violent criminals, who can kill with anything, in addition to a gun.

Out of all the personal firearms in the US, only a small percentage use them for crimes or violence. The goody-goody progressive ideology, in the minority, wants guns banned, and if this is in fact a democracy, it's what the majority wants, not the minority.

Really want to ban guns? Take them away from far-right conservatives, progressives are too pussy to use them. Unless they are attacked, then they want to purchase one for 'security' (with no prior experience they increase their risk). Then they'll be Wing-nuts and it'll warrant being taken away from them.

I say we ban each and every object that could be used as a weapon. Anything than cuts, pierces , chemicals, or causes blunt force trauma. The whole world would then simply say hateful things about each other, kinda of like now, but without weapons.

It's fucking ridiculous to trust any government with an arsenal of weapons capable of mass destruction. A government that prefers it's citizens to be unarmed?

I'd seriously doubt if 5% of all the wars ever fought by any country in the history of warfare was justifiable. It's just that 95% is based on lies trying to appear justifiable.