Even the Bulwark is getting simplistic about solutions. We have to focus on the problem, keeping guns out or the hands of deranged angry killers. It will take a combination of carefully drawn red flag laws, raising the age to buy long guns to 21 (same as handguns) and a lot more attention to the mental health needs of our children. Ending the sale of one type of firearm is a non-starter and it only shifts the misuse to more powerful but "safer" looking hunting rifles. The more the gun lobby/Republicans get demonized the better their chances of sweeping victories in November.
They have to do it the same way as they got people to stop smoking. They never banned cigarettes. They banned advertising cigarettes. They used negative advertising like showing cancer patient smoking out of a tube in his throat. They banned indoor smoking so if you were like me, living Chicago you could stand in the ally when it was 20 degrees out and smoke all you want. Then they raised taxes to the point if you wanted a carton of cigs you had to go take out a loan. It just got too hard to keep doing it.
Even the Bulwark is getting simplistic about solutions. We have to focus on the problem, keeping guns out or the hands of deranged angry killers. It will take a combination of carefully drawn red flag laws, raising the age to buy long guns to 21 (same as handguns) and a lot more attention to the mental health needs of our children. Ending the sale of one type of firearm is a non-starter and it only shifts the misuse to more powerful but "safer" looking hunting rifles. The more the gun lobby/Republicans get demonized the better their chances of sweeping victories in November.
They have to do it the same way as they got people to stop smoking. They never banned cigarettes. They banned advertising cigarettes. They used negative advertising like showing cancer patient smoking out of a tube in his throat. They banned indoor smoking so if you were like me, living Chicago you could stand in the ally when it was 20 degrees out and smoke all you want. Then they raised taxes to the point if you wanted a carton of cigs you had to go take out a loan. It just got too hard to keep doing it.