http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Latest-News-Wires/2012/0725/Obama-calls-for-better-background-checks-on-gun-buyers?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+feeds%2Fusa+%28Christian+Science+Monitor+|+USA%29
I'm not opposed to people having guns.
In fact, I think that considering everything that is happening in American government, I'm very glad that the people have access to firearms, lest we should become a country like Egypt where the military's power supersedes that of the elected civilian government. Not that it would matter, because they'd have to govern in the same basic ways using the same basic methods in order to achieve maximum effectiveness and efficiency.
But still, I don't see how this aspect of gun control: making sure that the people who are buying the guns aren't crazy or criminals, is such a big deal.
Those ideologues at the NRA seem to have no sense about the actual safety of firearms, the first rule of safety, being to keep them out of the hands of people who shouldn't have them, be they Mexican cartel runners, street criminals, or someone in a maniacal homicidal mood.
And I'm shocked that the Democrats haven't taken up this stronger line of defense of reasoned gun control.
How uncreative and dispassionate do you have to be in order to be one of them?
Think about it.
Silly brains.
Think about it.
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