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You just gotta internalize the externalities. Carbon tax would probably do it. Not that it's simple to actually do, but still.

I mean, it's not being ignored. There's electric vehicles, charging stations all around, subsidies for solar panels on houses, green branded products, banning of certain harmful things, the list goes on. Maybe you think it's not enough, but it's pretty out there to call that ignoring.

I don't know what you mean. The Libertarian Party runs its own candidates. Members of the Party generally vote for those candidates.

During the Cold War before the Party existed and while it was still very young there was an idea called Fusionism that did involve libertarians and conservatives basically forming a truce, since they both saw the Soviet Union as the biggest problem at the time. But that time is over.

Some do, some don't. Some just interpret the phrase differently. Some would say guns are already one of the most regulated products so they're already "well-regulated." Also the Supreme Court ruled in Heller that despite it saying "militia" the phrase really means individual people, meaning individual people have the fundamental right to possess firearms, etc. So, I think most of these people are not disregarding it, they're interpreting it a different way. It's the SCOTUS official interpretation, so it's not like it's a crackpot idea even if it's ultimately wrong. I know I disagree with SCOTUS on a ton of stuff.

This joke is dumb, too, but it's funnier. Lol

I know this is probably a joke, but this recurring joke is dumb. Libertarians disagree with Republicans on like half of political issues, and with Democrats on the other half. I invite anyone who doesn't believe me to go check the Party platform.

I know a lot of libertarians. I think a lot do accept that the government is going to do some amount of provision for poor or sick people or children. But many are very skeptical of these services, it's true.

I mean, it's still sort of a trust based system even with the FDA. It just becomes, "do I trust the FDA?" instead of the market or someone else. I think they're generally pretty good. But then sometimes they get pressure from Big Dairy and stomp all over farmers producing almond milk because calling it milk is deceptive in their eyes. And other times they block life saving drugs from being approved for years while sick people die, even after the drugs have been proven safe. So, there's still trade offs.

I should add in seriousness, I do think it's important to recognize that laws don't magically make things go away. Sometimes things are very hard to eliminate, and sometimes prohibition of something actually makes it worse like with the Drug War. But like you said about murder, we don't say, "murder bans didn't actually eliminate murder, therefore we might as well get rid of them."

I don't know about other places, but here in Indiana we have a statewide Red Flag law. I don't know about you, but I don't think of Indiana as much of a blue state.

It's not really an argument. Other comment said "the only thing" contributing to the supply is manufacturers, like if manufacturers weren't around guns would go away. I don't think they would.