Why are folks more concerned about guns than the loss of lives!

[The Straight Story]

6. Ummm...who says they are?

Some see the only solution is to remove all guns (except from those wonderful and capable government folks....).

As far as background checks - I am all for them myself. Not sure which crimes of late they would have stopped.

Not all that sure I favor federal background versus state though.

When you have 1% or less of gun owners using their guns in crimes I don't think it will solve as many problems as some think it will.....It is like how the republicans were sure if they did drug testing on people on welfare it would save a ton of money. Come to find out only a small, tiny, percent on welfare were using drugs and it cost them more money than they saved.

But it sure made them feel better about things for awhile.

Folks don't think gun owners care about the issues. They do (I didn't say *I* because I don't own a gun), they just the solution to the problem in a different light. Why 'punish' the many for what the very few do?

How about we put more funding into police and such to enforce laws -think about speeding and how many people, every single minute of the day, are speeding - we can ticket most people on the roads. There are not enough cops to do so. And even if there were it would clog the courts, so we would need more money and people for that as well.

Point is - there are more laws about guns than there are people to enforce them in a reasonable manner. And our prisons are filled up with people who smoke pot. We could lessen the sentences for non-violent people and put people behind bars longer who use guns.

But we don't. We don't want to spend the money either to enforce what already exists.

You can do a background check on someone today and a year from now their life falls apart and they use their gun in a crime. The check is only as good as the data that day, guns have a long shelf life.

Why work on something that makes you feel better, gives the federal government more information and power (how did the patriot act and such help out in that boston bombing thing?), and does little to prevent the deeper reasons for crime in general?

We are are not looking for solutions, we are looking for band aids to make us feel better and like something is being done. Just like after 9/11 - ride the wave and pass anything to make us safer.