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Your ability to understand the importance of gun safety, notwithstanding, "the problem with guns" stems more from people, like you and Dank, who are unable to de-polarize essential issues.

I actually made the point a few posts back that our political and legal discourse creates such polarized views.

For those who don't know, the term discourse refers to the use of language to control ideology. That is, our language shapes our thoughts--and vice versa.

For example, in this case both sertogis and Dank focused on arguing against one facet of the gun control argument--that parents are responsible for teaching their children gun safety.

Of course, no one I know disagrees with such an assertion. Yet, this does not absolve the government from protecting citizens from wrongful discharges of weapons, whether they be accidental (children) or intentional (crime).

By focusing on this one issue you ignore an entire spectrum of other relevant issues.

That said, assuming parents are responsible for teaching their children gun safety (including five year olds who shoot four year olds), how does that absolve society from creating measures that protect the communities from other weapon dangers?