would you supoport this gun-control measure?

[Egalitarian Thug]

27. I just know this is going to end badly, but here goes.

We are a violent, paranoid, authoritarian culture. We are taught from birth that there is no problem that cannot be fixed with an ass-kicking, or some killing.

If guns didn't exist, but everything else in America was the same, this guy would have killed his mother with an axe or a hammer and then killed or maybe only maimed two or five other innocents.

Is that really acceptable?

We have determined that allowing a few million more Americans to die from lack of health care is acceptable in order to save some taxes. We have determined that spending a billion or two blowing up little kids far away is acceptable in order to kill some bad people. We have determined that it is acceptable to suspend the right to privacy of the entire population on the off chance that some bad people will try to repeat the 9/11 attack.

Need I go on? The list of examples seems endless, so I can. Easily.

Is the body count all that matters? Really?

So, let's just ban guns and create yet another black market to meet the demand for them. Americans killing tens of thousands of other Americans every year is traditional. If it's poor people being killed it doesn't even rate a spot on the news.

In the end, it doesn't matter what we do or don't do about firearms. We are a profoundly disturbed society and this is the butchers bill for failing to address that.