America, You Must Not Look Away (How to Finish Off the NRA) ...a letter from Michael Moore

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41. Concern over children being mutilated by an assault rifle

is "a manufactured crisis"? "Hmmmm."

Do you have any idea how callous and unfeeling you sound?

"The fact of the matter is that it occurred because a sick individual" had access to highly lethal technology, made available to him by his own "law abiding" "responsible gun owner" mother.

Absent that technology--i.e. the "Bushmaster man card"--I highly doubt that little boy's hand and chin would have been severed. I highly doubt so many children (and adults) would have died.

As for the rest of your post--that hand guns cause many times more deaths and injuries than assault rifles--you just made the case for far more comprehensive gun regulation.

And don't tell me it can't happen, that it's "political suicide" etc. etc. Just eight years ago progressive Democrats were told marriage equality was "a losing issue" that would only hurt us with voters. And look how the tide has shifted.

The same thing is happening with gun control. What's sad is how many deaths, how much suffering, it has already taken, and how much more death and suffering will be inflicted before we finally take action.