Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
Dear Facebook Friend:
When someone with a knife hurts a bunch of people in St. Cloud, you tell me knives are no problem.
When someone with a car hurts a bunch of people in Ohio, you tell me cars are no problem.
When someone with a gun hurts a single person in Chicago, you say we must lock up all the guns in the nation.
I’m not seeing the rationale. Is the real problem the tool used to do the hurting, or the people doing the hurting?
Are you certain we’re locking up the right thing?
Joe Doakes
I think it’s mostly the liberal imperative to “do something”.
Although it’s pronounced more like “dooooooooo something” for full effect.
The most famous refrain by 13-year-old’s and those who govern in liberaldom: “Somebody ought to doooooo something.” It’s why liberals ought to be assigned their own personal grief counselors at birth – people who can follow them around throughout the trying times of their lives and help minimize the damage done by people like us in the SITD realm.
I think it’s mostly the liberal imperative to “do something”.
Your freedom is responsible for all the ills of the world. Any social problem can be fixed by taking your freedom to do something away from you, and you have no good reason for doing it anyway, so it’s even ‘oppressing’ you when they take away your freedom. They are really helping you.
The above explains the liberal political position on every policy question.