Drug's are illegal creating exorbitant profits for those who work in the business of satisfying that demand. Since it is an illegal business, criminal types are involved and they use guns to intimidate people they want something from. They typically buy these guns illegally, which is where background checks are essential, but the NRA fights such background checks.
These criminal types also like their guns to have more power, so they like automatic weapons. Terrorist types, whether they are angry young white teenagers or Islamic jihadists, also like automatic weapons. And yes, the NRA, fights any limitation on automatic weapons or easily hidden handguns.
Why isn't anyone in the NRA concerned that the Arizona jihadists who went to Dallas to kill Islamic haters dressed in body armor and possessing automatic weapons and handguns that they purchased without a background check or even the ability to purchase. What if they had simply gone to a Walmart and shot the place up? How many would have died and who would have killed the jihadists?
Guess who doesn't get to have an automatic weapon because they are inherently dangerous when civilians are around. Yes, the police, who are in harms way from anyone with criminal designs, don't get to carry an automatic weapon.
So what do they do, it has been proven that enforcing relatively minor rules detailing civilized society behavior like paying your subway fare and not squeegeeing peoples' windshields finds criminal types with guns, so the police go after people committing broken windows transgressions, and these are predominantly young black men who live in drug infested neighborhoods, but are not necessarily involved in the drug trade.
And yes, the far too often rule for police, who are in fear for their lives because there are way too many automatic weapons and hidden handguns out there, is that they are to be aggressive in checking people they stop for weapons and that leads to those civilians not trusting the police.
And far too often, some of these police go to far and kill young black men for no reason other than either their personal fear or their racist desire to kill or intimidate young black men. Eric Garner was choked to death by a policeman on a sidewalk for doing nothing more than selling single cigarettes. A 12 year old boy is shot dead holding a toy gun. A man stopped for a broken tail light, runs away leaving the car which could be traced to him, and is shot to death with 8 bullets in the back. A man buying a toy gun in a Walmart is shot to death by a policeman because "he looks dangerous". A man arrested for no good reason has his neck broken in the back of a police transit van when he is all alone. And I can't even recall what was going on in Wisconsin where 2 young men were killed in Milwaukee for no good reason. And this is just in the last 12 months where it seems like almost a weekly occurrence that police kill a young black man in either justified circumstances or very questionable circumstances.
So, what should be done. We could legalize drugs and take the exorbitant profits out of the trade, but that would still leave jihadists with access to automatic weapons and body armor. So, it is time the NRA became reasonable because our police deserve protection from automatic weapons and hidden handguns.
And that is why I believe the NRA is the root of all this evil that is going on in our society.
And I do believe hunters should be allowed rifles to hunt and protect their families. No terrorist wants to have to laboriously reload his gun while in action.
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