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In reply to the discussion: The more piling on of Sanders I see [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)I do too. And I don't want guns in cities. We don't need them. The police are a 911-call away and the biggest wild animals in my city are coyotes and raccoons. Maybe in the suburbs a rare deer.
But I have family who live on a farm in the Midwest. They hunt. They are isolated. They need a gun. They are trustworthy. I don't want gun legislation that will bar them from hunting or defending themselves.
We need to work on making our society less violent.
The large numbers of domestic violence and child abuse cases in our courts do not involve guns.
Gun death statistics for the US are absolutely horrible, but if you add to them the violence that does not involve guns, then you realize that we are a sick society, a violent society. That's what we need to change. Guns will take care of themselves if we try to work on educating ourselves to be less impulsive and less angry and less violent.
Frankly, the media makes its money on fostering violence and impulsive behavior, especially impulsive buying.