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In reply to the discussion: Gun Fanatics Express Their Support For a Mass Murderer’s Second Amendment Rights [View all]sofa king
(10,857 posts)Rednecks believe that ammunition sales are being restricted, but in truth ammo makers have been running on a wartime footing since President Obama took office. Enough ammunition has been sold to keep Americans firing for hundreds of years to come, which, along with the 100 million guns, over half of which are not tracked, means that it's a practical impossibility to outlaw guns or restrict ammo purchases. (Ammo makers also switched to high-caliber human-killing ammo because it's more profitable and more expensive; that's why nobody can find .22 ammo anymore.)
Almost none of that ammo was bought in large lots, because it simply hasn't been available.
So maybe...
FUCKING JUST MAYBE...
... we should focus on preventing our stupidest citizens from being routinely manipulated with fear. Maybe we ought to work on that.
Because if y'all don't give a shit about the practical impossibilities of gun control and the Second Amendment, why do you give a fuck at all about the First Amendment, which is what is actually killing all of these people?!?
Restrict the ability to frighten stupid people, and we shall achieve a happier populace than if we try and fail for the millionth time to further restrict the guns that can never be eradicated, scaring those stupid people at the same time and ensuring that some of them will come forth and kill... again.
Edit: I know this is going to piss people off, so I'll offer just one example of how we can fix something RIGHT NOW by going after the press instead of the gunmakers: For fifteen years now, psychologists have been pleading with CNN to no longer start their mass-shooting broadcast with police lights and sirens, which apparently is exactly what aspiring spree killers want to see. CNN won't do it.
So, do-gooders, why don't you channel your windmill tilting into something a little more our size, like preventing "news" channels from glorifying mass shootings in such a way that others are encouraged to do it. That would save more lives this year than fighting and failing to restrict guns or ammunition all year long.