Originally Posted by Volker

I can't understand this knee-jerk issue of gun laws...

If someone does not mind to go to the gallows for murder...

why he would care about a 150$ ticket or whatever for firearms possession?

Logic failure!



My understanding of Plutocracy is that "rich subset of population controls country". Well, yeah in a point yes. And thank God, as poor people are almost always idiots (if they were smart, they'd be rich). But... there is President always railing about low tax rates for rich people, high tax rates for high earners, and no real indication of rich people doing anything. Why would rich people running firearms companies (for example) let this argument fly around, or rich people owning automobile companies give their equity stakes for free to the government and unions as "bailout"? It seems that, aside from the existence of the rule of law (unlike say Russia), rich people in the USA don't seem to have a lot of power or influence, despite a few people throwing millions into ad campaigns, that seem to accomplish nothing (e.g. the tycoon bankrolling Romney, and indeed also Romney himself)


Bickering is a great thing about America. You need a free market of ideas, to find what is right. Some places there is a kind of social influence to stop people from saying anything "out of line", so nothing can change.