User blog comment:Avataress0/Thoughts for Boston/@comment-3222191-20130419194030/@comment-1038387-20130420075614

Those are cherrypicked states - lots of countries have gun control laws. Besides, other things than gun control factor into the reality of it all. It's a myth (on both sides, I might add) that only gun control influences crime figures.

Also, communists? The left side of the political spectrum is populated by, among others, communists, socialists, greens, social democrats (labor), and occasionally liberal democrats and social liberals. Only the communists are communists. I'm glad we have 15-odd political parties; if the two-party system has done anything it's creating a country full of polarized morons without any perspective of the spectrum.