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13037402, Thank you
Posted by Eric B Is Prez, Thu Jun-23-16 02:24 PM
I'm so tired of the bullshit arguments

"gun control won't stop every single mass shooting"
"bad guys will still find a way to get guns"
"we need to focus on treating mental health problems"

All of these statements are true. But they're also totally inane in this context.

As if treating mental health problems and gun control are mutually exclusive. We can do both. We should do both.

And of course you can never eradicate mental illness or crime, but at the very least we can make it a LITTLE more difficult for dangerous people to have guns. Why not try that?

It's as if a partial solution isn't still progress. Fuck, it'll be progress if in the next mass shooting only 25 people die instead of 49. I know that sounds morbid, but it's true.

They have to do SOMETHING. Demanding a perfect solution is basically just procrastination. We have perfectly reasonable solutions available, and we can't even get Congress to vote on them.