Questions the left won't discuss about gun control, but should - and soon.

[EdwardBernays]

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here's the thing:

You can not stop gun massacres completely. That's an impossibility. Aiming for that as a goal is like trying to swim to the moon; you can try all you want, but you're just gonna end up tired and disappointed.

What CAN be done though is GREATLY reduce gun violence and gun crime.

The point it, unless politicians actually start putting numbers to their policies, and start being willing to lose to try and make meaningful changes to gun policy, nothing will change. All we'll get is nebulous political grandstanding, which is what Hillary is offering.

The ACTUAL policies that would be needed to stop 99% of gun violence would require - in 2015 - something akin to a military coup. And that's not going to happen.

So - what the left needs to do is what they currently do with every other policy: make a plan, set targets, decide where to compromise, and sell it. Then make it work so they can prove their goals are attainable. A HUGE political firestorm, that results in 2-3% less gun violence is the OPPOSITE of meaningful, and indeed could set the cause back by decades, like MANY think the incredibly stupid AWB did.

Oh and BTW, here's the annual gun deaths in Australia since 1996:

2012: 226
2011: 187
2010: 232
2009: 226
2008: 231
2007: 231
2006: 242
2005: 220
2004: 241
2003: 289
2002: 292
2001: 326
2000: 324
1999: 347
1998: 312
1997: 428

Here's 1996 and before:

1996: 516
1995: 470
1994: 516
1993: 513
1992: 608
1991: 618
1990: 595
1989: 549
1988: 674
1987: 694
1986: 677
1985: 682
1984: 675
1983: 644
1982: 689
1981: 618
1980: 687
1979: 685

They've gotten it down by 2/3rds, which would save between 7-8000 Americans a year, but they have NOT got it down to zero, nor will they ever.