Tuesday, April 15, 2008

The gun divide in PA

This is a great article on the PA gun paradox. Hunters in the geographically larger red part of the state love their guns. But people are dying in gun violence at an alarming rate in the smaller, bluer parts of the state.

It's like that in other states too, of course. I think our hunter demographic is smaller, or less vocal, here in Cali, but we certainly are familiar with gun violence.

I'm not sure how we still love and celebrate something that causes such destruction. Our courts are set up to favor letting 10 guilty people go rather than imprison one innocent man, so why can't we favor fewer dead in the cities over the ability to shoot crap in the country?

I suppose we don't exactly get those innocent people out though. Maybe we're wrong in lots of areas.

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