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In reply to the discussion: "90% of the guns in America are owned by White people in the suburbs." [View all]baldguy
(36,649 posts)Any gun of any type in circulation is a threat to public safety. Most aren't used for hunting or protection. They are merely dangerous toys and status symbols. The reasonable policy would be to remove the great majority of them from circulation. But in doing so some RW extremist gun nuts would - with the support of a large part of the gun nut community - actually start shooting officers doing their duty & other innocents who happened to get in the way. This probable violent reaction of the extremist gun nut community DEFINES them as being a threat to public safety, along with their guns.
Unfortunately, America continues to labor under this threat from RW extremist gun nuts - and they have political power. So we can only pass more restrictive gun control laws on a national basis, and allow the number of guns to be reduced by attrition. It's not the best way; it's not the simplest way; it's not the most reasonable way. But it's the only way that's left open to us.