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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
The bad choices made by a 16 year old getting involved in drugs does not mitigate or absolve the state from responsibility for its own bad choices.
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Sure, I agree. But there are can be more than one problem at a time, and more than one contributor to a problem. If you'll look, I wasn't saying there wasn't a problem with US gun laws. There pretty obviously is. I take issue with the plainly expressed notion that there's no moral difference between a 16 year old dying in a drug related shootout and a six year old finding her dad's gun in a dresser drawer and blowing her own head off.
Let's not get carried away in our zeal for justice and righteous anger and lose sight of reality. The facts, without any "packaging" or dressing up to make them look worse than they are, are adequately terrible to demand a solution. An honest and frank assessment of them is the best path to solving what is, in the case of the USA, an incredibly difficult problem. It would be even if Congress outlawed all gun sales tomorrow, full stop and with no exceptions.