Motion to the Members of DU

[Savannahmann]

97. Nuts

The entire reason for having political power is to improve the nation, and the conditions of existence for the people. We don't get power just to have it to lord around, but to make real improvements in the lives of the people. Now, how can we improve the lives of the people. We've done that to an extent with the ACA, and we will see the lives of the people improve, not as much as if we had a true single payer, but its a start. Now, for the ACA to help the people, they have to live long enough to take advantage of it. That means we have to guarantee their security, and safety. We have dozens of Federal agencies that restrict the rights of the minority, when those rights impact the well being of the majority.

You don't get to cut down any old tree you want on YOUR property, property owners rights be damned if there is an endangered species in those woods that must be protected. You don't get to dump any old toxic waste you want on YOUR property as is your right because that impacts our lives. That is the Endangered Species Act, and the EPA. You don't get unlimited freedom of speech, and you will still have all those other rights you seem to ignore without your precious gun.

So don't tell me that we have no moral standing, and claiming that those of us who think you gun nuts should be regulated, and stripped of your firearms are part of the problem. That is flatly asinine. We didn't shoot anyone at Sandy Hook, or Aurora, or anywhere else. We haven't robbed, raped, shot, stabbed, or otherwise harmed another. We don't stand by and scream that there is nothing anyone can do, and stick our tongues out at those demanding change. We expect to hand our children, and grand children a better nation than we have now and a better world.

That means we have to get the guns off the streets, and out of private hands. That is the solution, one used all around the world by every civilized nation. Nobody else lets their citizens run around with guns. Nobody else has our rates of gun violence either. Nobody else buries tens of thousands of their citizens because of the right to bear arms. In any other nation where tens of thousands die from guns you would find a civil war going on. Only in America is it business as usual. Have you considered that for even a moment? The only other nations with that many people getting shot and killed are in the midst of civil war. Yet we don't dare discuss stripping you of your precious right to keep and bear arms, because you never know when the Militia will call and beg you to take command.