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Is it ridiculous to think simply banning things doesn't solve the problem at the root?

Well not regulating the finance industry worked out well so sure

cards2468 wrote:Is it ridiculous to think simply banning things doesn't solve the problem at the root?

Nope. There are analogies to drug/alcohol prohibition. Where's there's demand, there'll be supply.

I had never made the connection until recently for some reason, but the similarities of the pro/con arguments for gun control v. drugs are striking to me. And oddly enough, people who are pro for one are generally anti for the other.

Transmogrified Tiger wrote:I had never made the connection until recently for some reason, but the similarities of the pro/con arguments for gun control v. drugs are striking to me. And oddly enough, people who are pro for one are generally anti for the other.

It's nice to have politicians tell you what to believe. Keeps you from having to think for yourself

Or you could look at it like this: all societies have had some sort of set of acceptable norms.

cards2468 wrote:Is it ridiculous to think simply banning things doesn't solve the problem at the root?

There's two separate problems though. I don't think improving mental health services in this country necessarily prevents this, but that's a good start. But there's also the issue of how much he was able to do and had access to.

I think making certain weapons illegal might be worth doing (not a position I held even 5 years ago), but moreso limiting how much ammo and how many guns can be purchased within a specific time frame. Nobody should be able to buy 4 guns in one month, IMO. Extending waiting periods would probably be good too. I don't see enough justification for the right to carry weapons in public. Or if we do allow that, I think those people need to have higher standards applied to them (i.e., Zimmerman).

Transmogrified Tiger wrote:I had never made the connection until recently for some reason, but the similarities of the pro/con arguments for gun control v. drugs are striking to me. And oddly enough, people who are pro for one are generally anti for the other.

Not all that dissimilar to abortion and the death penalty (and not trying to thread hijack at all!)

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Scalia is a good reason to vote Obama imo for people tired of politics

Exactly right--What an effin' TOOL this guy is...

He carried the banner for the majority in the DC gun case that essentially eviscerated the 2nd Amendment as written by the Founders. Thanks to that ruling, the first clause of the Amendment is now meaningless --and the conjured "individual right" to keep and bear arms supercedes everything.

This gobbledygook interview is directly at odds with the majority's reasoning in the DC case.

geez...wtf is wrong with people?

Police are trying to figure out why a man took a bag of weapons with him to an Ohio movie theater showing the latest Batman movie.

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/08 ... e-say?lite