The saddest thing about this CBS poll on gun violence....

[Peacetrain]

https://news.yahoo.com/cbs-news-poll-mass-shootings-143004706.html

is at the very end.. 28% of people think that mass murder has to be accepted as part of living in a free society.. How degenerate have some of our fellow citizens become??

[mucifer]

1. they worship their guns like the guns are their gods. they will die for their guns

sick f-cks!

[Meadowoak]

2. That 28% is the MAGA base.

[CaptainTruth]

14. Bingo.

[machoneman]

22. Well, if they only turned their guns on each other....I'd be o.k. with that. Why you say?

They are fine with other gun humpers when innocents are mass murdered.

[TigressDem]

3. But the BEST PART is how even the party of guns is thawing to common sense gun control

% WHO FAVOR >>>> BACKGROUND CHECKS ---- RED FLAG LAW ---- AR-15 BAN
DEMS >>>>> 88% --- 84% ---- 84%
INDS >>>>> 82% --- 76% ---- 52%
REPS >>>>> 74% --- 52% ---- 31%



https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/XlaoBquipx5RbJ5CsFgcCg--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTcwNTtjZj13ZWJw/https://s.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/qHU6k9sK62GoXAVQ5ia9vw--~B/aD0wO3c9MDthcHBpZD15dGFjaHlvbg--/https://media.zenfs.com/en/cbs_news_897/1a3ceae4e332da4bc07cbabecf9535d6

[Peacetrain]

6. True that!!..but I am still floored to see 28% accepting shootings in schools as normal..

[TigressDem]

9. Yet even THAT is progress from the "lock step party" 72% DON'T

It's like when Independents started indicating approval of Biden policies. Even 13% of Independents was amazing.

NOW 72% of Republicans are NOT IN LOCK STEP on the designated CRAZY position of the party.

THAT'S AMAZING.

[Bucky]

17. 🎼 "Freedom isn't free, so your kids must die for mee!" 🎶

So sick of them

[Baitball Blogger]

4. I don't think that the people Ted Cruz claims America is the

Greatest country in the world and fight to come here, would agree with that statement.

[3Hotdogs]

5. Joe (The Plumber) Wuerzenbacher): "Your dead kids don't trump my Constitutional rights."

That's what we are up against.

[Peacetrain]

7. Sweet Jesus.. did he really say that???

[3Hotdogs]

8. Yuppers.

He did.

[iemanja]

10. I've heard others say it too. nt

[Ilsa]

26. For real. The kids' right to life is less important than guns. nt

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

29. Yes, he did!

Joe the Plumber is a fucking sewer rat who can eat a bag of shit. Thankfully, he lost his election bid.

[SouthernDem4ever]

19. Just like all the other trumpers

when one of the kids is his, he'll think differently, but not until then. It will get around to them sooner or later.

[FalloutShelter]

11. The right is absolutely are willing and eager to re-engineer society

entirely by criminalizing the scraping of cells from a women's uterus, but they are 100%cool with randomly turning ACTUAL children into chop meat with AR15s.

They are SICK SICK SICK. I seriously doubt we can turn our country away from disaster.

Maybe it's just Monday, and also... it's JUST MONDAY.

[Xoan]

12. Free to die...

Is not the own they think it is.

[Javaman]

13. the gadsden flag should be updated...

live free and die anyway.

[barbtries]

15. jeezus.

that is not a free society.

we are so fucked.

[CaptainTruth]

16. Look at how many didn't care about COVID deaths.

They believed it was ok to have mass death just so they could have their freedumb to not wear a mask or get vaccinated.

They truly do not care about the lives of their fellow Americans.

[Bucky]

18. Tread on them instead

[drumpfsucks]

20. Agree with MEADOWOAK....

28% is the MAGA cult and 100% NRA.

[SYFROYH]

21. Its realistic about all crime.

Criminals, to one extent or another, take advantage of civil liberties to commit their crimes or evade consequences.

We can reduce crime including mass shootings but I don't think we'll eliminate them.

[thesquanderer]

23. correction re: "28% of people think that mass murder has to be accepted"

The article said 28% of mass SHOOTINGS, not mass murder.

(Jonestown Massacre, Happy Land social club fire, Boston Marathon bombing being examples of the difference.)

It would be easier to eliminate (or, okay, come very close to eliminating) mass shootings in a free society than it would be to eliminate ALL kinds of mass murder. The first would require "only" a high degree of gun control, which you can still have in what most of us would still consider a "free society." The second would probably require Orwellian-level surveillance. Which, yes, is also already a real concern. In fact, the increased surveillance that is already happening is probably more of a threat to our "free society" than the non-existent extreme gun control (which we'll never get) could ever be. These guns that people think keep them "free" only provide an illusion of freedom in the first place.

[Victor_c3]

24. You're not free if you're living with the fear of violence n/t

[TeamProg]

25. Really bad. Yah, so let's expect child drownings, baby suffocation, rape, voter fraud, etc without

even trying to fix a damn thing.


Brilliant !!

[SleeplessinSoCal]

27. It appears to be a Catch 22 situation.

If not, what do you call it? More violence in society causes more to arm themselves. Often against their will.

One way or another I fear we are doomed.

[Initech]

28. I absolutely cringe when I see people wearing pro-gun shirts.

It's truly sickening that in this day and age when fears of being involved in a mass shooting are heightened and they continue to support and enable this shit! I am seriously starting to feel unsafe in this country and this is not the country that I grew up in. It's getting really scary out there.