re: #91 goddamnedfrank

I’m not a fan of assault weapons bans because I don’t think they do much to solve any of our society’s real problems. For instance, today I put money down on used early 1980’s Smith and Wesson Model 60 .38 Special. Just looking at it from a typical law enforcement basis, compared to a semi auto AK47 or AR15 that little five shot revolver is probably far more problematic, more concealable and conducive to criminality.

However our culture is swimming in guns of all types, so I don’t see where instituting a ban is going to bear fruit on a time scale of less than a millennium. Better to focus on the actual roots of violent crime, things like education, fighting poverty, ending the drug war, etc.

Sure, it’s not the whole solution, or necessarily even a major part of it. But when any restrictions on firearm sales are derided as fascist or unconstitutional, it’s a sign that we’re also swimming in gun fetishists and have our priorities upside down. The unthinking knee-jerk opposition to anything that could even be remotely referred to as “gun control” is part of the problem.

Shouldn’t it be at least as easy to vote as to purchase a gun? Not in some states.