Thune is kind of an asshole, but there is a degree of validity in his insensitive remaks

[Stinky The Clown]

(Context for Thune: https://www.rawstory.com/2017/10/sen-john-thune-blames-shooting-victims-for-failing-to-take-precautions-and-get-small-to-avoid-gunfire/ )

We have a choice to make. We can yell, whine, kvetch, debate, whatever about the lack of gun laws all we want, but there will be NO CHANGE for at least the next three and a half years. And even after that, even if we regain control of all the levers of power, getting the laws changed is going to be difficult.

Besides, new gun laws won't do diddlyshit to making us markedly more safe. If we're LUCKY, there might be some changes at the edges. But make no mistake, automatic and semi automatic gunfire will continue to ring out across the country. Mass shootings will continue and maybe even increase.

So Thune is right. We have to learn to protect ourselves and our loved ones. No, that's not getting guns. It means getting more vigilant. ~OR~ deciding to accept the risk and live life. We drive cars. People die every day in cars. Not in tragically spectacular numbers, but die they do. The aggregate is a big number, that's for sure.

Yet we accept that risk as part of our life. And we drive cars. And we get aggressive ourselves every now and then. We flip off other drivers. We create our own risks to a greater or lesser degree than everyone else.

So what do we do about guns?

I've said this before.

Accept the risk.

There is only one, lone, singular, simple law that will stop the carnage - Ban 'em and Melt 'em.

Every other half measure is just so much pablum. Nibbling at the edges of a HUGE problem. Minuscule changes that come at great cost.

I can never accept guns as a part of my life. But I CAN show the resolve to live MY life in MY way in spite of the nutters, gun humpers, impotent men, the NRA loons, the uparmed wimps and wussies who need to fellate their piece in the name of self protection, and the political crazies who think they're arming themselves against their government coming for them.

Yes, Ban and Melt will be a traumatic event in this country.

Unless, like smoking, gun worship becomes socially unacceptable.

Walk with your head up and your shoulders back. Live YOUR life. And show disdain for gunners. Shout it. Let them know they're really social deviants. Who needs a gun? Really? Who *NEEDS* one? To protect against some boogieman breaking in to your house or accosting you on the street? Man the Fuck up and stand tall. Gun owners, in my view, are cowards who cower.

MAN UP.

Yeah, John Thune has a point. More of a point, given the realities of 2017 America, than people who want to change or enact this small law or that. You want to protect yourself and your loved ones? Its YOUR choice.

I really do NOT want to debate HOW we get a Ban/Melt law enacted. It is simple. You just fucking do it. And if you fail, you do it again. And again. Until you do it.

We went to the moon. We can Ban Guns.

Believe it.

Now stand up straight and LIVE YOUR LIFE.

[procon]

1. I tend to agree, but maybe people could still own the same type of guns that

were available to our Founding Fathers. The whackos could probably still kill people, but maybe there wouldn't be any more of these mass murders using weapons of war.


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