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For guns, I've recently run into a point of view that I think is valid: the above structure (insurance/license) disproportionately favors the wealthy. Ultimately it just adds a barrier for the poor.
I fully understand that the stats show that gun control laws DO indeed decrease GUN violence. However violent crime in general doesn't really change. The ONLY statistically effective way that guarantees a reduction of violence on the whole is lifting people out of poverty. The less poor we have, the less violent crime. Social programs can lift us out of so many issues.
This is true. The same problem applies to transportation, health care, food security, etc. Poverty is terrible. Unfortunately, the right wing also seems to hate any effective programs to deal with it. No school lunches, no basic income, no nationalized insurance, etc etc.
Right, it's especially rich because that the demographic that's overwhelmingly "Christian" despite consistently voting against policies that align with "Christ's" teachings.
The Southern Baptist Convention schismed from the Triennial Convention (the National Baptist group) because the national Baptists weren't pro-slavery enough.
The SBC is based fundamentally around racism, it was founded on racism, one of the beliefs I was exposed to in the south was: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_Ham
They taught themselves that their brand of Christianity was their only defense against brown people and their Northern masters who want to destroy the "Southern Way of Life", and now it's just a siege mentality with whichever conman comes around.