America\u2019s gun laws are shot through with irony and illogic. Some would want you to believe that our national attitude regarding guns reflects a reverence for the Second Amendment. In reality, the gun laws passed\u2014or should I say, not passed\u2014 in Congress and state legislatures are based less on ideology and more on the purely mercenary goals of the gun and ammunition manufacturers who are the true drivers of the NRA.<\/p>\n
So, instead of a sane approach that acknowledges that gun deaths are a public health problem, we have an irrational patchwork of laws that often defy logic and do nothing to protect us. I\u2019ve compiled some bullet points to illustrate the insanity of our gun laws:<\/p>\n
This list is far from comprehensive\u2014unfortunately. I welcome additions that further demonstrate the hypocrisy and madness. We live in a country where even the deaths of 20 first-graders don\u2019t move the needle even one centimeter on gun laws. This is just plain crazy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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