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I believe this latest gun shooting exposed the radical ideology of those in the NRA and the radical gun zealots.
These people live in some sort of alternate reality thinking we are still in the late 18th or early 19th century. They are dinosaurs the same way supporters of the Confederacy were.
First off, I find it disgusting and morbid why anyone would find it acceptable to attack grieving kids and family members who suffered tremendous loss. IMO it is akin to how blacks were treated 100 years ago. Secondly, it is incredibly stupid. You do realize these 15, 16, and 17 years old will be able to vote soon?
If you have noticed something, the NRA and gun zealots do actually provide solutions, however, every single solution supports gun manufacturers.
Stupid solutions: Let's arm the teachers:
* If these shooters are buying and using AR-15s, what good is a handgun going to do?
*Who is going to train these teachers? Are they going to wear kevlar vests?
*I can go and on and on however this solution is essentially saying our schools are so unsafe, we feel the need to arm teachers (imagine your 60-70-year-old first grade teachers with guns).
State/local solutions don't work without federal backing!
It is somewhat pointless to have strict gun laws in one city if the neighboring city has lenient gun laws. Imagine for example if half the states allowed for slavery and the other half abolished it. That just wouldn't work. If the minimum age to buy a long gun is 21 in Illinois yet you can buy those same guns in Indiana or Kentucky at age 18, those state and local laws won't have the same bite.
We need to blame the mentally ill people and bad guys!
Every country has mentally ill people and bad guys. Believe it or not, people in the United States are not more or less prone to commit a crime than the majority of other countries.
The children in the UK and France are watching the same violent movies/TV shows. They are listening to same violence music. Every school has bully's. This isn't some cultural shift. It's the guns!
The revealing truth about gun supporters and the NRA is this: They don't have the trust of the American people. They back gun manufacturers before everyday people. They are negligent and responsible for the mass shootings in this country. Blaming bad guys and the mentally ill for these killings would be like blaming smokers for getting lung cancer. Certainly, the cigarette companies have some culpability in the matter - that's why cigarettes have become highly regulated.
The NRA and gun zealots can continue to bash victims and kids. Go ahead. Those victims and kids will grow up and remember your hatred. They will vote you of office, dismantle your organization, and end you.
When those kids are 30-50, you gun zealots will be frail and bedridden unable to grab your guns. You will not be able to do a damn thing but watch old westerns and eat jello.
These people live in some sort of alternate reality thinking we are still in the late 18th or early 19th century. They are dinosaurs the same way supporters of the Confederacy were.
First off, I find it disgusting and morbid why anyone would find it acceptable to attack grieving kids and family members who suffered tremendous loss. IMO it is akin to how blacks were treated 100 years ago. Secondly, it is incredibly stupid. You do realize these 15, 16, and 17 years old will be able to vote soon?
If you have noticed something, the NRA and gun zealots do actually provide solutions, however, every single solution supports gun manufacturers.
Stupid solutions: Let's arm the teachers:
* If these shooters are buying and using AR-15s, what good is a handgun going to do?
*Who is going to train these teachers? Are they going to wear kevlar vests?
*I can go and on and on however this solution is essentially saying our schools are so unsafe, we feel the need to arm teachers (imagine your 60-70-year-old first grade teachers with guns).
State/local solutions don't work without federal backing!
It is somewhat pointless to have strict gun laws in one city if the neighboring city has lenient gun laws. Imagine for example if half the states allowed for slavery and the other half abolished it. That just wouldn't work. If the minimum age to buy a long gun is 21 in Illinois yet you can buy those same guns in Indiana or Kentucky at age 18, those state and local laws won't have the same bite.
We need to blame the mentally ill people and bad guys!
Every country has mentally ill people and bad guys. Believe it or not, people in the United States are not more or less prone to commit a crime than the majority of other countries.
The children in the UK and France are watching the same violent movies/TV shows. They are listening to same violence music. Every school has bully's. This isn't some cultural shift. It's the guns!
The revealing truth about gun supporters and the NRA is this: They don't have the trust of the American people. They back gun manufacturers before everyday people. They are negligent and responsible for the mass shootings in this country. Blaming bad guys and the mentally ill for these killings would be like blaming smokers for getting lung cancer. Certainly, the cigarette companies have some culpability in the matter - that's why cigarettes have become highly regulated.
The NRA and gun zealots can continue to bash victims and kids. Go ahead. Those victims and kids will grow up and remember your hatred. They will vote you of office, dismantle your organization, and end you.
When those kids are 30-50, you gun zealots will be frail and bedridden unable to grab your guns. You will not be able to do a damn thing but watch old westerns and eat jello.
