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Originally Posted by Grapesoda
if all guns crimes EXCEPT mass shooting were stopped... gun violence would almost be completely gone....  |
They just don't talk about that too much.
Politicians on both "sides" use these tragedies for political gain.
Pres. Obama has been in office 5 years. The whole time, his own home town has been a literal killing field with gang violence: blacks being shot down on the streets every day.
Not a peep from him or Vice Pres. Biden.
But after Sandy Hook? Guns are suddenly all they talk about.
And the weird thing is...none of the stuff they are proposing would have even prevented that tragedy!
A universal background check? Really? How many murders are committed by criminals who went to a gun show, paid the fee to attend, and bought a gun there?
My guess is very, very few.
If they were serious they would ask Congress to repeal the 2nd amendment. That's a power that Congress has. Then guns could be legally removed from our society.
But they aren't serious.
In my opinion it's just more things to distract people from the amount of unemployment in the country and the huge national debt that is rising everyday.
If the federal govt. wants to disarm the citizens then the Congress should simply repeal the 2nd amendment. They have the power to make amendments and repeal them too. And they have historically done it when they wanted to (Prohibition, the repeal of prohibition, presidential term limits, etc.)
All these politicians on the news pretending that they are actually doing something are conning everybody.