Fear drives opposition to gun control

[longship]

49. And mass murder WITH GUNS drives the fear.

When people no longer feel safe going to a movie theatre, walking to class on a campus, eating lunch at high school, or any number of other instances, you are going to instill fear.

One of the most important things that government can do is the mediate that fear. FDR knew that when he said in the midst of the great depression, The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

I am ashamed of DU this week. Instead of having reasoned, rational discussions about issues, all I see are thread after thread of chair throwing vitriol on fucking gun rights. It is utterly disgusting what has happened here.

Shame on us all.

Everybody, please, take a breath and use that noodle up there for something other than a hat rack. Think! Consider the position you take in context of the events.

Stop the fucking chair throwings! Stop the bullshit!

Politeness never costs anything. It's free; no charge. Can we work together on this?

I will. That's why I've tried to stay out of the far, far too many gun threads.

I support gun ownership, but I will only state here that somewhere between a pea shooter and a nuclear bomb there is a demarcation to the second amendment. Any discussion with me on the issues would have to presume that fact.

Thanks everybody.