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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSupply side vs. demand side (gun thread, for those sick of them)
The gun debate is bringing this up for me. On most issues other than gun crime, Democrats favor demand-side solutions over supply-side solutions.
Drugs? Get users to treatment, so remove demand. Economics? Get money to workers, so increase demand.
The supply side drug response is to interdict drugs. The supply side economic plan is to get money to rich people.
But not with guns. Progressives for the most part favor a supply side answer to guns, while conservatives don't see a problem to begin with.
Is there a demand-side answer to gun violence? A way to make people want guns less to begin with?
Fresh_Start
(11,330 posts)associate them with weakness rather than strength...
ask families of gun owners which member of their family they thought would kill or be killed first.
show the victims and survivors....I think Gabby is wonderful.
Recursion
(56,582 posts)But, I get your larger point.
Fresh_Start
(11,330 posts)being primarily driven by estrogen myself.
But gun nuttery is mostly a male thing, not a female thing.
And from what I've seen the female gun nuts are mostly trying to appeal to specific male gun nuts.
Facts could help with rationale people. But gun nuts are not rationale.
They are lost in their own fantasy world.
demwing
(16,916 posts)Realistic penises, with veins and hair
Fresh_Start
(11,330 posts)But instead of saying look at that bad ass with the gun, start saying look at the pussy hiding behind the gun.....
demwing
(16,916 posts)a little truth in advertising, right?
Fresh_Start
(11,330 posts)and would be more than delighted to shot them off in public.
demwing
(16,916 posts)because it enables them to get distance from the reality. So destroy the distance.
Fresh_Start
(11,330 posts)thats probably what they spend the other 30% of their time doing already.
demwing
(16,916 posts)guns shaped like realistic penises? Truly?
I hope that the time has not come to DU when one must claim the tag over such subjects...
ellisonz
(27,711 posts)There's your problem.
Glassunion
(10,201 posts)Recursion
(56,582 posts)but offer no substantive demand-side ideas other than a "database of crazy people", for which I respectfully suggest their membership lists.
Fresh_Start
(11,330 posts)of the mentally challenged.
Glassunion
(10,201 posts)Back in the day, they were not half bad. Heck, they supported and help draft the bill for background checks.
They had an oportunity to step up and do something meaningful. However that speech Wayne Ass Hole gave; put the last nail in the coffin in my eyes.
Any time anyone says that we sould have a list of "certain" people, I cringe, as there is no good that will come of it. None.
EssexBorn99
(12 posts)hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)No real soul there.
rrneck
(17,671 posts)Health care, workers rights, education.
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)Social pressure will stop people carrying guns if they are forced to open carry.
Mandatory time if you get caught with a concealed weapon, a year for a first offense should be adequate.
hunter
(38,318 posts)Make public expressions of "gun love" totally uncool.
Treat anyone who posts "gun love pictures" on public boards like DU the same as we treat those who post pictures of their penises.
Taitertots
(7,745 posts)Are you suggesting we incarcerate all gun owners?
hunter
(38,318 posts)Practice your free gun love in private clubs.
But please, keep it off the streets.
Gun Love spreads like an STD.
Taitertots
(7,745 posts)Who are terrified of them.
hunter
(38,318 posts)I could be fondling my own guns as I write this. You wouldn't know.
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)Even from a supply-side perspective it isn't a great idea.