Really? I missed the part where there's a heroin shop on every corner. Or where we've locked up hundreds of thousands of gun dealers.
Do you really want to compare the DEA to the ATF? Because the DEA gets a lot more resources.
Actually, we don't hear about the IRA because the Irish themselves stamped them out.
Uh, guy, 83% of gun homicides are people who are shot by family members, friends or neighbors. And for every gun homicide you have two gun suicides. As Pogo said.
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But yeah, a guy was let off with a minor bond for a minor crime. That's the problem when you have a prison-industrial complex. Eventually, you have to make decisions on who to let out, and sometimes they guess wrong.
It's not like we are going to fix racism, poverty, addiction, lack of mental health treatment and gun proliferation like the Europeans have... because that would be silly.
Yet you are the one who wants them to have easy access to guns, Mormon Bob. Of course, most perpetrators of gun violence are not "criminals", they are regular people who got a gun and used it in a domestic argument.