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Originally Posted by 57 On Red
Then you're insane.
You're just not thinking rationally. Guns are inherently violent by design, but they can't hold a candle to the destructive reality of alcohol.
I'd wager that nearly everyone reading this post knows someone in their personal life who has had something terrible happen to them or done something terrible to someone else due to the influence of alcohol. I doubt everyone has been personally touched by the casual ownership of firearms gone wrong.
Choose any year for which stats are available, and you'll find there were more drunk-driving deaths than gun homicides. How many successful suicides started the process with a few drinks to work up the courage? How many dead or battered spouses at the hands of a drunk? Lives, careers, or young potential ruined by one stupid mistake while their judgment was impaired?
At the end of the day I'm cool with snapping all the guns away, too, but as a mutually exclusive choice, it's not even close. Keep the guns, ditch the drug. Though, I've never been intoxicated, so maybe it's just that great and that's why you think the upside outweighs the enormous down.
The reason I have an issue with stupid takes about gun control is because it's not actually about the gun violence. It's always an emotional reaction to an outlier horrific event by someone who fancies themselves as enlightened. In the next breath they'll say how horrible it is that our prisons are filled with people who landed there just because they sold some drugs for a guy who wouldn't hesitate to murder the competition. I hear those gunshots every week. Spouting off about making it more inconvenient for law-abiding citizens to own guns just makes you look like a tool. They aren't the problem and never have been. Nothing this guy in California did would've been prevented by anything short of the non-existence of firearms in the US.