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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIm so fucking sick of guns and assholes who worship guns. Almost noone will just state the obvious.
Guns need to go. Period.
Need to go the way of other sane countries.
Extremely limited, highly regulated.
Of course its not the "guns", its people, but weve proven we cant be trusted with them.
Heres your 2nd fucking amendment as it was meant to be.
You want military weapons?
They get locked up in the Armory for your use in the WELL REGULATED MILITIA.
50 Shades Of Blue
(11,503 posts)Captain Zero
(8,954 posts)Nt
Aristus
(72,525 posts)guys in the military go swaggering around with rifles and machine guns all the time, and that life in the military is just one long, gun-happy shooting-fest.
The reality of it is that we only used our firearms under very carefully-controlled conditions on specific training days with specific training goals. Firearms were otherwise locked up tight in the arms room, where no one could just dance in and take them.
This current shooter guy is former Army; so he knew this, at least. One might have hoped he understood what 'well-regulated' means.
The Grand Illuminist
(2,065 posts)There may be no choice but to use the very thing to rid the thing.
WarGamer
(18,863 posts)Without a Constitutional Amendment, it's just words.
Right now there is NEITHER the majority political or social desire to "Guns need to go. Period."
and that's before yu even deal with the "How about the 400m guns already in possession of Americans"
thucythucy
(9,153 posts)for increased regulation of firearms, especially the murder machines favored by so many right wing killers.
It's our broken political system that anoints presidents who lose the popular vote are were able to stack the courts. It's the gerrymandering and right wing media Juggernaut. It's the billionaires and millionaires who fund the NRA and its lackey politicians.
Fix all that and we'd see rational gun control and pronto.
In the meantime, it's "thought and prayers."
And gun free zones for the politicians who promote the culture of death in all its odious forms.
radicalleft
(579 posts)an amendment to the constitution? Hell, in the last presidential we only won 24...
Irish_Dem
(82,369 posts)The FF wanted all white males to be armed so they could hunt down fellow citizens
and kill them in cold blood.
It is all there in the US Constitution.
The judges keep telling us that.
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