Dammit. Fight for sensible gun control. Stop being bullied by pundits and hacks.

[Yavin4]

Fight the fight for sensible gun regulation of automatic weapons. I know. I know. We'll lose in rural counties. We'll lose the 2nd amendment people. We're coastal elites, blah, blah, fucking blah. I don't give a fuck any more.

Take the matter directly to the people and do not waver. Stand tall and make the argument. If we lose, so what. Keep fighting the fight. Over time, Americans appreciate fighters. The Civil Rights movement took decades. It didn't happen when MLK made a speech in front of the Lincoln memorial. Hell, the fight for Civil Rights was going on before King was born. Oh, still not convinced? I'm 54 years. In my life time, I personally witnessed the Gay & Lesbian community go from fighting AIDs to marriage equality in a hostile nation.

This can and should be done. The most immoral thing that you can do in life is NOT fight when you clearly have the higher ground morally on an issue. Stop the slaughter.

[mainstreetonce]

1. Great pist

We must not give up.

[dhill926]

2. K & R....

yep. Might take a while....even a long time. But something has got to be done....

[Yavin4]

3. In the 1980s, there was serious talk of quarantining Gay men.

Legislation was being proposed.

[Phoenix61]

4. I just keep thinking about MADD

When I was 18 I could legally drink and a DUI was a $50 fine. Lots of times the police would drive you home. That group of determined women managed to change the law and our culture. We can do this but it needs to be a social issue, not a political one.

[mcar]

5. I don't see our Dems giving up

[Hoyt]

6. Gun supporters claim there is nothing we can do because there are too many guns. That's BS.

It may take decades to see clear results. But every decade we do nothing, puts another 100 million guns on the street that we will have to deal with when we finally bite the bullet like Australia in 1996.

It's not to soon to start, even if it takes years for kids to grow up and not want to be gun-humpers like their dads. Or, maybe to not have the opportunity to become a sick ole gun-stroker.

Excellent post.