Vox Writer Demands “Green New Deal” For Gun Control

By Cam Edwards

AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite

You can always count on the folks at Vox to provide some quality clickbait, and writer German Lopez has done just that by calling for a Medicare for All or “Green New Deal” for gun control, and chiding Democrats running for president for being stale and tired in their gun control plans.

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 hesitate to call the latest from Lopez a “think piece”, …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms