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b_b  ·  4442 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: My Month With a Gun: Week One

IMO the gun debate is never going to be an honest one, because it treats all gun owners as equal when we know they are not. Take my fair city, Detroit. In the burbs there are throngs of dudes packing at all times, and the crime is negligible. In the inner city murder is an everyday occurrence, most often by gun. Most of these murders, so I am told, are drug/gang related. So the question isn't "how do we limit gun ownership?" but rather, "how do we stop gang violence?". But, as we live in civil society where we love to deflect real problems for imagined ones, truth for euphemism, the gun debate will always be about guns, and never about actual causes of violence. Personally, I have no idea how to solve this problem, but I'm damn sure that limiting the number of rounds in a magazine isn't going to help any of my neighbors get jobs and feed their families.





cliffelam  ·  4442 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That's certainly a true statement.

FWIW, my understanding is that it is all but impossible to legally own and carry a gun in Detroit. Perhaps leveling the playing field might be a good place to start.

-XC

b_b  ·  4442 days ago  ·  link  ·  

You're thinking Chicago. All of MI is regulated by a state law that makes it quite easy to get a CPL. Interestingly, municipalities can regulate knives however they want. Go figure.

cliffelam  ·  4442 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Ah, thanks, that violent Yankee land just blurs to me....