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Tragically, 300 Americans die of fentanyl poisoning everyday in America and Biden says and does nothing.

Tragically, 5 people were killed in a shooting in Colorado and Biden immediately demands a ban on assault weapons.

The solutions are this:

1. Secure the border and stop the drugs.

2. Defend our right to keep and bear arms so that people can defend themselves from killers who could care less about laws.

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Is there a word for ‘whataboutism’ that throws up MYTHS?

could care less

That means you DO care!

At least a little!

We already have government agencies that are dedicated to stopping illegal drugs.

2. Defend our right to keep and bear arms so that people can defend themselves from killers who could care less about laws.

This sounds so contradictory...

As for opioids, I've not checked the statistics, but people who overdose are often long term users who have been finding ways to still obtain it beyond normal medical prescription. It's a commonly abused drug category. Then assault weapons: who ever needs that but the army and police? The "proper militia" of your Constitution, remember?

Actually, there have been six hundred mass shootings this year. Not deaths from mass shootings. Shootings where at least three people died. Putting the fatalities at AT LEAST six times that of fentanyl. And that is before adding single shootings, gun suicides (which have a particularly high success rate and are generally of the acute and spontaneous kind that usually would not have occurred without opportunity and where further attempts are unlikely), accidental shootings...

People who die from fentanyl don't have it thrust upon them against their will, like the bullets fired from an assault rifle. Addicts are their own worst enemy, while the NRA is the enemy of us all.

If you want to play that game, then drug ODs and mass shootings are both irrelevant, and society’s #1 and #2 priorities should be getting everyone a healthier diet and most of the automobiles off the road.

But, really, this is a stupid game. There’s no reason to think that putting less work into gun legislation will actual result in more work being put into reducing drug abuse, and even if it does, it won’t necessarily result in a proportionate improvement in outcomes. Double the number of proofreaders on a piece of legislation, and you will probably cut the mistakes down by less than half, because you’re chasing diminishing returns: that’s why Congress works on bills in separate committees instead of having everyone in a single huge group working on all the drafts, and only shows them to the rest of the representatives when they’re basically done.

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