At the state-owned Cow Palace in California, you're allowed to have a convention dedicated to sex shows. However, if a bunch of law-abiding citizens want to sell each other legal firearms, they can't do that in the Cow Palace, according to a bill passed by the California legislature.
I know what you're thinking: no woman would ever go to a place called the "Cow Palace," so that's why their events must revolve around guns and sex.
Guns aren't an $11 billion a year industry based mainly in California.
So what you're saying, of course, is that the bill was passed due to undue influence of the pornography industry, something that is a bad thing. It's certainly possible, and if so, I couldn't agree more: it's a bad thing.
Senator Burton's comment is the most telling: "I've never seen a kid killed on the playground by a live sex act." No, Senator, kids (and adults) are killed spiritually by committing sexual sin, something you apparently don't believe in. Fortunately, the Lord forgives those who repent, and restores us to life in the Sacrament of Confession.
Guns aren't our problem. Baby-Boom social and economic mores that undermine the formation of children in virtue, and the health of families, are. Homes where kids don't have neighborhoods to grow up in (since the parents are all at work); divorce; reparative materialism to assuage parental guilt; all of which are products of loss of Christian faith--those are the problem.
"I've never seen a kid killed on the playground by a live sex act."
No; I imagine that the good Senator rarely bestirs himself long enough to visit a pallative care unit and see exactly how they do die- slowly, and in incredible pain.
What an a-hole.