I had to fly to Atlanta and back this weekend. As usual, I had to remove my shoes, put my small bottles of liquid medicine in a plastic bag, checked my bag because I brought a big tube of toothpaste and not purchased a bottle of water at somewhere cheap because I can't bring it through security.
All because someone somewhere thought of a way to make a bomb that they might have set off on a US airliner and these precautions protect passengers from someone else using the same technology to bring a bomb onto a US Airliner. So thousands of passengers a day suffer inconvenience for their protection from something that has never happened. And the GOP and many Republicans support and tolerate this.
Yet, over 30,000 people die every year by gun shots in the U.S. It varies by year, but on average over 100 policeman, who are armed and trained to protect themselves, are killed by guns every year. And yet, there can be no political discussion on hot to make the public safer from this real risk we face every single day of the year.
Why can everyone be inconvenienced to protect ourselves from possible Jihadist terrorists, but we can't even discuss some reasonable Second Amendment abiding controls that would limit the use of guns with the goal of reducing the 30,000 deaths a year?
And for the upteenth time, why police don't universally support better gun controls is beyond my comprehension. More police are killed by guns where there is little gun control (Texas) than where there is more gun control. And most of the police killed where there is more gun control are killed with straw man purchased guns in little gun control states.
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