What so many of you are missing about this toon is that his actions will do nothing to curb firearm violence. Liberals love to howl about how we need to stop these massacres and how we need to stop inner city youth from gunning themselves down in Chicago, LA, DC, and NY. The problem is none of their proposals will solve these things; more regulation is not what’s going to keep firearms out of the hands out of criminals. It will only keep firearms out of the hands of law-abiding citizens. A perfect example is the terror attack in CA. The firearm was purchased in the most restrictive state in the nation (CA), where 30-round mags are not permitted, and yet somehow they managed to employ these weapons with high-cap mags. More regulation isn’t going to fix it, and disarming Americans isn’t going to stop it. Making MORE regulation on owning a firearm is like making the driver’s test more difficult to prevent carjackings. So blaming Republicans in Congress for not doing anything is misguided; they recognize that platitudes won’t solve the problem. And disarming potential victims doesn’t reduce the quantity of criminals. But you guys are so focused on your ideology that you can’t see that your proposed solutions will have zero practical impact on the long gun homicide rate (which is already insanely low) and mass shootings in this country. After all, the cities with the highest volume of firearm homicides are run by Democrats and have the strictest firearm regulations in the country. So clearly that isn’t working. So I ask what practical solutions you have that don’t involve making it harder for law-abiding citizens to purchase firearms. How do you sift out the chaff without hurting the people who have no intent to do harm, and actually wish to simply protect themselves and their families/friends?
What so many of you are missing about this toon is that his actions will do nothing to curb firearm violence. Liberals love to howl about how we need to stop these massacres and how we need to stop inner city youth from gunning themselves down in Chicago, LA, DC, and NY. The problem is none of their proposals will solve these things; more regulation is not what’s going to keep firearms out of the hands out of criminals. It will only keep firearms out of the hands of law-abiding citizens. A perfect example is the terror attack in CA. The firearm was purchased in the most restrictive state in the nation (CA), where 30-round mags are not permitted, and yet somehow they managed to employ these weapons with high-cap mags. More regulation isn’t going to fix it, and disarming Americans isn’t going to stop it. Making MORE regulation on owning a firearm is like making the driver’s test more difficult to prevent carjackings. So blaming Republicans in Congress for not doing anything is misguided; they recognize that platitudes won’t solve the problem. And disarming potential victims doesn’t reduce the quantity of criminals. But you guys are so focused on your ideology that you can’t see that your proposed solutions will have zero practical impact on the long gun homicide rate (which is already insanely low) and mass shootings in this country. After all, the cities with the highest volume of firearm homicides are run by Democrats and have the strictest firearm regulations in the country. So clearly that isn’t working. So I ask what practical solutions you have that don’t involve making it harder for law-abiding citizens to purchase firearms. How do you sift out the chaff without hurting the people who have no intent to do harm, and actually wish to simply protect themselves and their families/friends?