FUCK THE NRA.

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204. You're asking the wrong question. They will never care.

That is the problem. Guns have their own ideology/religion in the country. Much like "low taxes" and "free trade" no evidence of the destructive power of their point of view will penetrate their biased minds, which are infected with belief and not searching for logic. So long as you tell yourself "guns don't kill people, people kill people," no number of murders is too high, because it is not the gun doing it -- you've already decided.

I think we need to, like everything else, start with the kids. Turn guns from a macho weapon to a coward's weapon. That is what they are, after all. They allow people kill from a great distance, away from the blood and the smell of burning flesh. You don't have to have skill, like you might if you tried to kill 30 people with a sword or a knife, and you don't have to have stamina and strength, like you would if you tried to kill 30 people with your bare hands or a baseball bat. It's violence and control at a distance, a weapon for weaklings and cowards. Let's get Hollywood to stop portraying gun toters are muscle bound heroes, and portray them for the wimps that they are. Teaching children a new way is the only thing that will work, just like it is starting to work with reducing racism and homophobia.