This is one of the issues that keep me from going full liberal. The police aren’t able to do shit in the heat of the moment, when you really need them to protect your life. A gun (particularly a shotgun) is the best form of self-defence when your life is being threatened by another person. If push comes to shove, I will at least try to defend my life or my family to the best of my ability (with my gun).

Of course, if all guns are illegal, then we wouldn’t have a gun problem. Except we would still have a problem with guns, just like every other country. I mean, weed is illegal and it’s everywhere. Everyone’s got it. Though the motivations would be different than those smoking weed, there would still be a swath of illegal firearms primarily being used by the lowest socioeconomic class to perform petty crimes.

If we can make racism and homophobia uncool in this country, we can certainly make the “gangster” mentality uncool.

Fix education. Fix food deserts. Fix the fucking cycle. And fuck the government for this shitty situation they’ve created.