The next massacre - A tragedy we will not try to avert - By Eugene Robinson

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55. I don't know

but even if they don't regret it, or even if they haven't publicly expressed regrets, that doesn't mean it was a good decision on their part.

Has anyone expressed regrets over appointing a president in 1992, in violation of the constitution?

The disasters that are a direct result of those 2 more recent decisions occurred very quickly after those horrible decisions, making it easier for them to connect the dots.

The tragedies of Columbine, Virginia Tech and Aurora have been longer in the making, and are more a result of the insidious nature of our gun-worshiping culture. It is time to start pushing back on that cultural drift. Past time.

Oh, and I have some really bad news for you. I'm planning on getting a gun as soon as I sell my house. This has been my plan for some time. I live fairly rural, and once I sell will be moving even more rural and I do feel the need for some protection.

I am a cautious person and will do this with appropriate training and oversight from a local gun club.

The reason it is bad news for you is because my karma is such that *whenever* I join in with any popular trend, the tide immediately turns. I'm not joking. It's been my karma for nearly 60 years. I bought company stock, 2 months later it crashed. I bought a condo; 2 weeks after I signed the papers Reagan changed the tax laws and crashed the condo market. I traded in the condo for a house in '03, 2 years later the market crashed. I guarantee, in writing here on DU, that the minute I buy a gun the gun culture will come crashing down. In a way, by buying a gun I feel that I will be doing the very best I am capable of doing to bring on massive gun control. Even if Mittens were to be elected, even if they replace Mittens with Wayne LaPierre himself, the instant I buy a gun, all guns will likely be confiscated. It's sad (for me), but true...