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In reply to the discussion: The four most expensive words in the english language. [View all]BainsBane
(57,785 posts)than police die from active duty. What kind of person are you to not think that is problem? Your desire to pretend to play cops and robbers is more important that that? There is nothing that turns my stomach more than that kind of immorality. The next time there is a mass murder, realize YOU and those like you did everything possible to avoid doing anything about it because you didn't think it was important.
So yes, the blood of those children are on your hands because you have made it very clear there mean nothing to you and go to great lengths to make sure mass murderers continue to have access to their homicidal tools. You people are fond of pointing out that guns don't kill. What kills is a profound cultural sickness that leads to homicide, gun companies and their allies that privilege profits above human life, and people who insist that the availability of weapons of mass murder mean more than the tens of thousands of Americans who die every year from gun.
Acting like adults doesn't mean putting your own hobby above human life. It doesn't mean deciding that human life is inconsequential. It doesn't mean the infantile desire to play soldier trumps the rest of our right to live. It means developing a conscience befitting a human being. It means recognizing that we are all part of society and that we all have a responsibility that extends beyond your own personal desires. It means respecting the rights of others to live, rather than concluding as you have that 38,000 Americans who lose their lives every year don't matter--which is exactly what you have gone in this thread.
The US has the highest homicide rate in the industrialized world, and deaths by gunfire are triple that of homicides.
I cannot even begin to fathom how people like you live with yourselves.