One can now bring guns into the national parks.

The National Rifle Association thought McCain, not Obama, should be President. But this probably would never have happened if McCain was President. Gun restrictions seem to get passed more often when Republicans are President.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5itp2xFPxgQ4TTpiTFLZQrJpRTAXQD98A4R980

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/20/us/politics/20cong.html

It was obvious to me that Obama who is internally torn between his respect for the Constitution, and abhorrence to guns wasn’t about to portray the gun advocates as ogres. And I guessed that when he had to choose between gun laws and other policy he was more certain about, it was unlikely that he would hold firm on limiting guns.

Opponents of gun laws don’t distinguish between legal guns and illegal guns. And neither do I. In some poor neighborhoods if a girlfriend is pressured to buy a gun for her boyfriend to get milk and bread for her children, and her boyfriend if he got in a brawl or was truant or something as a child and couldn’t get a legal gun, she could end up in prison while the government raises her children in foster care.

Like most good progressives I think drug laws are awful, and just empowers crime. Crack to me is dangerous but I think it is more dangerous than making it illegal enough to encourage organized crime. But I can’t see how many progressives think putting people in jail for guns somehow doesn’t also empower and profit criminal gangs.

I dare assume that there are more people who have an illegal gun they think they need to protect themselves with than who have crack who never end up hurting anyone else.

I want to find ways to discourage people from having guns and crack, even outlaw the sale of guns without also selling a gun lock that fits on it. And preventing a pregnant woman from getting crack, except if she agrees to stay in a government run hospital while pregnant, and get limited dosages that take into consideration the development stage of her baby. Laws that allow drunk or addicted mothers to avoid being charged with assault, of her developing baby, by getting an abortion upset me greatly.

Let’s all get together and work for a world with less guns, less dangerous drugs, less abortions and less people in jail. It used to be if a drunk driver killed someone in another car or the other car had several people in it, if convicted it would result in them spending the same amount of time in jail. Now many pro-lifers insist that if a pregnant women is killed, it should be two charges of murder or manslaughter.

Let’s all realize that we need a world with less people in jail, less crime and less dangerous objects or chemicals lieing around. Perhaps gun owners should be required to take an annual class in gun dangers and required to belong to a gun club, like in Denmark. Anyway I agree with Obama that we should all get together and try to work things out.

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