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In reply to the discussion: How Will The American People React When The President Proposes Some Gun Safety Measures & The Repug. [View all]libdem4life
(13,877 posts)of us, for varying reasons or geographical location, or stages in life. I prefer banning, but having lived in both Red and Blue states, know it is no more realistic that banning high emissions gasoline engines or supplanting foreign oil and the military control/bases/pipelines to ship and protect said supply with renewable resources...not going to happen. It's a process of public as well as private, but mostly corporate weaning.
But we can be smart...and cooperative...and begin to feature the bizarre and amazing and lethal crazies that evolve out of the newly publicized argument/conversation. It's not them the news media encourages...they are already crazy beyond any help (including mental health)...it's the everyday majority/the voters who will have to become responsible...thus holding our elected officials to that same responsibility.
If Sandy Hook doesn't do it for the responsible gun folk, sad to think what will have to happen...whose kids or family are sacrificed next...and it will happen...to change the politics the social approval and the greed of the unregulated, grossly profitable and consciousness-lacking NRA, their supporters and other apologists.
Machine guns, no matter how parsed and justified, as social policy are NOT OK... NOT EVER.
Sorry, but anyone who can't bring it upon themselves to deprive society (any or all of their neighbors?) of modern WMDs out of some colonial, musketry militia past, we'll just have to wait it out.