Or, you know, voters could just vote people out of office for supporting the gun lobby. But I think the author realizes it's a lot easier to use public pressure by liberal backers to force a subset of private entities who aren't beholden to the entire public to force their will on everyone.
This idea of using corporations to legislate the nation's woes is not a good idea. It subverts and undermines the democratic process and makes corporations the leaders of a plutocracy.
I think people just realize that mass shootings are a small problem nationally and would take a large amount of effort to solve, and just choose to whine rather than fix anything.
461 people were killed in mass shootings last year in the U.S. But only 650 were killed in Chicago alone in "regular old murder". When it's poor black people getting killed, meh, business as usual. But kids? And especially large numbers of white kids? Now we need to get rid of guns.
This idea of using corporations to legislate the nation's woes is not a good idea. It subverts and undermines the democratic process and makes corporations the leaders of a plutocracy.
I think people just realize that mass shootings are a small problem nationally and would take a large amount of effort to solve, and just choose to whine rather than fix anything.
461 people were killed in mass shootings last year in the U.S. But only 650 were killed in Chicago alone in "regular old murder". When it's poor black people getting killed, meh, business as usual. But kids? And especially large numbers of white kids? Now we need to get rid of guns.
Give me a break.