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Volokh breaks it down in a way even Obama should understand... but wont. Because as he said he wants to politicize it."
Every day, about 30 people are killed in the U.S. in gun homicides or gun accidents (not counting gun suicides or self-inflicted accidental shootings). And every day, likely about 30 people are killed in homicides where the killer was under the influence of alcohol, plus alcohol-related drunk driving accidents and alcohol-related accidents where the driver wasn’t drunk but the alcohol was likely a factor (again not including those who died in accidents caused by their own alcohol consumption). If you added in gun suicides on one side and those people whose alcohol consumption killed themselves on the other, the deaths would tilt much more on the side of alcohol use, but I generally like to segregate deaths of the user from deaths of others.
So what are we going to do about it? When are we going to ban alcohol? When are we going to institute more common-sense alcohol-control measures?
Please read the whole thing. That guy should be in the Supreme Court.
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Guns are just a distraction from the massive fraud that is Wall Street and the goulash of tragedy that is the Middle East.
The problem is you don't have to get drunk when you drink.
That's another issue.
Guns have become an issue because the courts gave the looneys and the crooks rights they never had before.
Personally, I would prefer to see no more lawyers on the Supreme Court. There are many learned individuals in this country that can read and understand a 6 page legal document without the shenanigans that our court lawyers engage in . We have judges seeing things that aren't there, not seeing things that are clearly there, issuing such narrow rulings that guarantee lawyer work for years to come, and in one case a judge who publicly states that he looks to international law to decide cases.
Oh, I've made the same arguments to friends about the exact same thing and they just can't get over the fact that a gun is so much more dangerous in their minds. Alcohol is supposed to be fun, but a gun is meanie head.
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