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Source: The Guardian
A Michigan candidate for US Senate has proposed arming homeless people with pump-action shotguns in an effort to reduce crime.
Brian Ellison, who is running against Democratic incumbent Debbie Stabenow, says homeless people are constantly victims of violent crime and providing them with firearms would provide a deterrent.
Ellison, a Libertarian who is expected to be the partys candidate in the November midterm election, said he had settled on pump-action shotguns for practicality purposes.
Frankly I think the ideal weapon would be a pistol, he told the Guardian, but due to the licensing requirements in the state were going to have a hard enough time getting homeless people shotguns as it is."
More at: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/mar/15/us-senate-candidate-proposes-arming-homeless-people-with-shotguns
rurallib
(62,492 posts)or would each gun come with a safe for the homeless person to lock it in?
Better yet, maybe a place to live?
Are their brains ever connected?
Renew Deal
(81,901 posts)Why should they mooch off the govt to get their guns?
backtoblue
(11,348 posts)Really?! Hey genius, how about access to food, shelter, and healthcare? You know, things that actually help people to LIVE .
njhoneybadger
(3,910 posts)Ferrets are Cool
(21,122 posts)THIS.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Guns solve every imaginable social ill and some ills that they have not imagined yet.
But building housing, providing skills training and providing health care and food security solves nothing in their minds.
MagickMuffin
(15,985 posts)In the article he never mentions who will provide the weapons. Certainly it can't be the government, since libertarians don't believe in government handouts.
petronius
(26,614 posts)BobTheSubgenius
(11,582 posts)This MUST be a performance art piece.
skypilot
(8,854 posts)It just has to be. To what end? I don't know but there is no way this guy is serious.
lame54
(35,361 posts)TheBlackAdder
(28,262 posts)jmowreader
(50,604 posts)The Republicans are always up in arms about crimes committed by the homeless, so this moron's grand idea is to give them the tools they need to go out and commit even worse crimes?
krispos42
(49,445 posts)Are we sure this isn't The Onion???