Subj : Re: Gun Insurance
To   : Gamgee
From : Moondog
Date : Thu Jul 14 2022 01:04 am

  Re: Re: Gun Insurance
  By: Gamgee to Dumas Walker on Mon Jul 11 2022 09:47 pm

 > -=> Dumas Walker wrote to GAMGEE <=-
 > 
 >  >  DW> Yes, this is true.  There are some cities that probably have a
 >  >  DW> "mass shootings" worth of people, and then some, shot and killed
 >  >  DW> each day by handguns.
 > 
 >  > Definitely true.  Chicago probably tops that list.  The city with the
 >  > strictest gun laws anywhere.  What they forget is that criminals don't
 >  > obey laws.
 > 
 >  DW> I really don't understand how someone like me can explain that to
 >  DW> someone who seems to be able to follow logic and seems to be
 >  DW> resonably intelligent, yet they won't understand it.  IMHO, some
 >  DW> of them just think that guns are scary and we are better off with
 >  DW> less of them, but the "criminals don't obey laws" logic should be
 >  DW> equally as scary.
 > 
 > Yes, it should be just as scary.  What I honestly think is that those
 > who think more gun laws will fix the problem is that they actually are
 > NOT interested in fixing the real problem.  What they are interested
 > in doing is increasing the amount of control that they can have over
 > another group of people.  It's really very petty and selfish, but that's
 > the actual truth.
 > 
 > The real problem is mental health, and the fact that so many are not
 > able to get treatment for their issues.
 > 
 > Gun contol laws are *PROVEN* to be ineffective, and the so called "red
 > flag" laws that the same people want were *JUST* proven to be equally as
 > useless, right there in Highland Park, Illinois.  It was a textbook
 > example case of complete failure.
 > 
 > 
 > ... Vote Democrat.  It's easier than thinking!

It goes well beyond mental health.  Crazy people are a minority of
shooters when compared to organized crime and gang murders.  What happened to
the beliefs that life has value?  

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