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 And I'm back to "America has a political problem," given that the overwhelming 
majority of Americans want stricter gun controls, but the appropriate 
legislation is consistently blocked by the minority who don't want any gun 
controls. 

 Obviously that political problem has an impact on many other situations 
besides gun control. But the point is that if the majority could get its way, 
gun safety would be significantly improved, and some of the awful statistics 
would be reduced.

C: With 80% of homicides in our cities being gang related I am not sure even 
gun laws can touch this issue. DC has the strictest laws against gun ownership 
and is 8th in homicide rate. The most vocal people for guns are not the ones 
shooting each other with them. Can you really think of a gun law that would 
stop criminals from using them to defend their turf?
 

 J: I don't think I said anything to that effect.

c: Linking gun control to reducing the "awful statistics" was to that effect.
 

 Well, no, Curtis, reducing the statistics is not to the effect of stopping 
criminals from using guns. I don't choose my words at random, and I don't 
appreciate your changing them and trying to stuff them back into my mouth.
 

 End of conversation.
 


 

 J:However, Obama's "Now Is the Time" proposals include many things that could 
be done to reduce gun violence, including increased mental health care spending:
 

 http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/docs/wh_now_is_the_time_full.pdf 
http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/docs/wh_now_is_the_time_full.pdf

C: I am all for more mental health spending but again, the most gun violence is 
between gang members fighting over turf. His other proposals are all political 
theater to make it seem like he is doing something. Making it harder for 
criminals to get guns the easy way will just drive up the price and appeal for 
people who sell them the harder more profitable way.

Improving school safety is a joke and more theater. No one can stop the kind of 
determined kids who have done the worst damage. I go in and out of schools 
every day and there is no way short of prison lockdown to even improve an inch 
on that. And prisons aren't exactly violence free either.

The laws against gun clips and certain kinds of guns is more misplaced 
misdirection. The kind of gun you need to shoot a deer humanly can be just as 
effective and you will never get controls on those. This law is for people who 
don't know much about guns and think there are big differences. What talking 
about these measures HAS accomplished is that sales of assault rifles and large 
round clips went through the roof. So now that ship has sailed and there are 
more big clips and assault rifles on the street than ever in history. 
Unintended consequences of gun control laws.


 

 

 

 

So for me the issue is education and dealing with poverty. If you look at a map 
of where DC homicides are, it is a map of our poorest residents. People living 
in a horribly broken social system, with a society that has artificially 
inflated the value of drugs through prohibition, ends up with gang driven 
murder rates like we have. Amsterdam does not have this toxic mix.
 

 

 

 

 So I'm back to "America has a people problem."  

























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