THIS^^^^^^^

Statistics absolutely confirm that violence, firearm and otherwise, is positively correlated to unemployment and other measures of poverty. When the economy is strong in such a way as to improve conditions for the lower and middle classes rather than just make the rich richer, gun violence goes down.

Besides the suicide and domestic violence that you mention, gang and drug related activity covers the rest, and these are the direct result of the disastrous way we’ve handled inner city populations of disenfranchised people.

He who is Steingar. has said the exact same thing since the founding of this pathetic board.  That there are very good reasons to own firearms.  I believe that defending yourself against the forces of Evil isn't one of them.  That is my opinion, and I don't give a fuck if you don't agree.  But there are lots and lots of others.  Moreover, the vast majority of firearm owners are law abiding citizens.  The vast majority of firearm victims are known to their assailants, indeed half are suicides.  As such there is no reason whatsoever for greater controls on firearms that exist at the present moment, and there might be too many as it is.

Sadly, there are communities that suffer far too much firearm violence.  I've been told that the odds of dying violently on the front lines in Afghanistan are actually less than the odds of dying violently in some areas of Chicago.  Local leaders turn to firearm ordinances, which are forever doomed to failure, since firearms are easily moved from one location to another.  The only solution to the violence is to solve the poverty, and we've not done that in recorded history.

No doubt since I don't rigidly tout the Conservative party line lots of people will pile on and call me names.  What the fuck ever.

He wants to double the federal budget to $8.2 Trillion dollars by 2031.  But at least he doesn't say mean things in a tweet.

Biden is an absolute disaster on the domestic front and with foreign policy.