Are we ever going to get tired enough of school shootings that we actually do something about them?

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41. We also need to frame it differently. Dumbed-down so more of the low-information voters can start

even CONSIDERING another point of view.

They're always on about their fucking freedom. Their freedom to shove their damn guns in my face, to parade around in public with massacre machines draped all over themselves, menacing people. Menacing ME. What about MY freedom, 'eh? What about MY freedom - NOT to have to deal with that, not to be menaced and endangered by that, NOT to be MUZZLED by their damn restrictions on MY FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND MY DOCTOR'S FREEDOM OF SPEECH even to DISCUSS this as a health issue? What about MY freedom to live in peace without that in my face all the time? What about MY freedom from the aggression of the gun goons, insisting their right to have any fucking damn guns they want, anywhere they want - somehow outranks and overrides MY freedom?

I doubt anybody on that side ever even considered that those of us who want these damn guns controlled and more stringently regulated and contained - so that NOT just anybody can get any ol' gun they want - have freedom, too. OUR freedom is guaranteed and protected, and has weight and importance TOO. Okay?!?!?!? OUR freedom from that public menace, that domestic terrorism. I think it's time we asserted this. You gunners aren't the only ones entitled to assert all your freedoms, okay? We NON-gunners have freedoms, TOO. And they're EVERY BIT as high-priority as YOURS. And if you feel like you've just got to arm up like that, then that tells the world you're one helluva lot more scared and insecure than I am.

For me, the "enough" line was drawn when it was revealed that the NRA torpedoed President Obama's nominee for surgeon general. And we have an Ebola crisis smoldering in this country at this moment and because of the fucking NRA, we don't have a surgeon general. That is QUITE ENOUGH! They've gone over the edge. They've thrown their weight around too much. That's IT. I think we should start asserting OUR rights - NOT to be menaced by all these fucking guns everywhere.

And yes, start shaming them. And don't let up. And hit below the belt. If they can call me a "baby killer" because I'm pro-choice - and I never killed a baby in my life - then I can CERTAINLY call them baby-killers. Because of their reckless insistence on unrestricted guns everywhere for everyone, babies and children actually ARE being killed. By GUNS. Yeah, if you're splitting hairs - guns don't kill people, people kill people. And people are killing people - including kids and babies - with GUNS. More innocent gun violence victims would still be walking around alive today if fewer people had easy access to guns.