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10. It's going to take losing again and again

Reply to bluescribbler (Original post)

Mon May 16, 2022, 10:23 PM

May 2022

We have to be willing to lose vote after vote in Congress. We have to be persistent. We have to lose, and listen to the gun humpers gloat. Right now, we live in a country where daily mass shootings are preferable to the utter catastrophe that someone, somewhere, is stopped from buying and using a weapon designed to kill and maim dozens of people in 60 seconds. Do we value our daily lives in a non-shooting environment enough to risk regulating ownership of firearms like every other civilized nation on the planet?

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