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Vox’s German Lopez: Now’s The Time to Get Serious About Licensing, Gun Bans
and Confiscation
BY DAN ZIMMERMAN |JUL 10, 2019 |163 COMMENTS
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German Lopez Gun Control Vox Guns in the US Problem
German Lopez courtesy twitter.com
There’s literally no issue in America that the galaxy brains at Vox can’t
address with a, uh, liberal application of bigger, more intrusive,
increasingly authoritarian government action and spending.
And few of those issues inspire more ambitious thinking on the part of the
Voxen than that pesky, uniquely American “problem” of civilian gun
ownership.
Gun control policies that don’t confront the core issue — that America
simply has too many guns — are doomed to merely nibble around the edges.
Everywhere in the world, people get into arguments. Every country has
residents who are dangerous to themselves or others because of mental
illness. Every country has bigots and extremists. But here, it’s uniquely
easy for a person to obtain a gun, letting otherwise tense but nonlethal
conflicts escalate into deadly violence.
To change the status quo, Democrats should go big. They need to focus on the
abundance of guns in the US and develop a suite of policies that directly
tackle that issue, from licensing to confiscation to more aggressive bans of
certain kinds of firearms (including, perhaps, all semiautomatic weapons or
at least some types of handguns).
I am not naive. I don’t think that this would lead to sweeping Australian-
or UK-style gun control legislation passing in 2021. But this broader
conversation has to start somewhere.
The time is now. The NRA is in chaos, as its leadership is caught in a civil
war. The Parkland, Florida, activists have forced guns into the spotlight. A
recent Morning Consult poll found that Democratic voters put gun violence
second only to climate change as the issue they wanted to hear about in the
first debates.
Just like Bernie Sanders helped launch discussions about single-payer and
free college in 2016, a push in 2020 could help get the party to where it
needs to be on this issue if it really wants to address America’s gun
problem.
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