i'm not going to fight you on gun control; i don't like guns, i don't want one, and i'm not interested in fighting for people that do have guns and do want them.

i would not shed a tear if the government rounded up all of the guns tomorrow.

this is not about gun rights for me, it's about effective public policy. and, we know that guns laws simply do not reduce gun violence.

that doesn't mean we shouldn't have gun laws, anyways - as mentioned, i'm not going to fight you on this. i'm just going to sit back, criticize your proposals, dissent on your projections and instead suggest that your policies will have the opposite effects of what you're proposing.

i'm going to ask the hard questions about culture that the media is afraid to ask. and, i'm going to finger the actual problem: our gun violence is increasing because our culture is americanizing. the root problem is the importation of gun culture values from south of the border. and, to reverse the problem, we need to reverse the process of americanization that is taking place, here.

i want to end gun violence, too. but i understand that prohibition does not solve problems, but causes problems.

we need to get to the root causes through effective social policies and deep self-analysis, not pass well-meaning authoritarian laws that won't work.