These gun grabbers are failing to go after the real problem: the illegal traffic of drugs. It is in the pursuit of the illegal trafficking of drugs that most of the violence from guns occurs. When gangs ran illegal alcohol during Prohibition, the automatic Tommy Guns came out. Guns go hand in glove with illegal activity. Eliminate the illegal activity and you eliminate the gun violence. As long as there is the illegal activity, law abiding people need guns to defend themselves and others from the crazed killers.
I agree that it began that way but I dont believe that is the root cause any longer.
The root cause of much the violence today is the basic loss of the belief that human life (beyond ones own) has value.
in the inner cities Christian values have eroded to the point that any personal slight may be a reason to kill.
How many times in the past year have you seen an article which describes a shooting resulting where the shooters motive was something as simple as not getting catsup with their takeout order?
It is the novel Lord of the Flies come to life in our inner cities today. The thin veneer of civilization that Christianity laid over the remnants of the Roman Empire is cracking and crumbling as Christianity is attacked and made a scape goat for opposing the LBGT mafia.
Everything that Christianity made real; rule of law, personal charity, the value of human life and respect for women is collapsing under the assault on the Christian faith.
And our solution to illegal trafficking of alcohol was to legalize it. I think this was the right solution regarding that drug - and would be the right solution today at least as regards the #1-by-a-mile most used illegal drug: marijuana. Do you agree?