Here's a list of things that the left in the US wants to do to reduce gun violence in America:
- get rid of armor piercing bullets
- get rid of assault rifles
- no large capacity magazines
- close the gun show loophole
- more and better background checks
Here's a list of which of those will have a meaningful impact on gun violence in America:
America loses 30K people a year to guns, and about 3000 of those are children, every single year.
70%+ of gun murders a year are committed with handguns. So over 20K a year. Twice the number killed by drunk driving yearly.
Handguns are extremely easy to get a hold of, and background checks in no way stop people who live in a house with a handgun from getting their hands on that gun.
Neither does closing the gun show loophole.
MANY, if not the vast majority, of shooters COULD pass a background check, or - due to the sea of handguns in America - can easily buy one on the street.
And hey, guess what, the overwhelming majority of police shootings in America are done with - you guessed it - hand guns.
American cops AND civilians can NOT be trusted with them They making killing way too easy.
But here's the thing, no one anywhere is talking about getting rid of handguns. Sanders? Obama? Dean? Clinton? No. No. No. No.
There's not a single politician with the bravery to do anything except make little mewling noises about nonsensical regulations that won't make a meaningful impact.
So hey, you know what, whinging about the NRA - that's kinda stupid. Pretending the GOP is the bad guy, also kinda stupid... BECAUSE the Democrats are JUST s complicit.
Until someone starts suggesting things that bring down gun murders with 10K a year, I'm not buying... And I'm not going to believe - on this issue - that the Dems are serious about change.