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

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163. And I hope you've been making that point to the NRA, too.

Censoring people's right to speak - when it comes to allowing doctors to talk about gun violence as a health issue to their patients or in public? That's what the NRA does, and aggressively supports. Blocking the nomination of a surgeon general because he spoke out and said truth about the NRA? I guess THAT'S okay, correct?

And frankly, you trigger something else in me, with this. I find that a sense is starting to develop within me - whenever anyone steps up and starts yammering about "oppression by the Government" - yeah, take it to the next teabagger meeting. Oh the gummnt! The gumnt! Bring on the black helicopters! Oooooh, be afraid!!!!! Well, I think we oughta start standing up to THAT, too. ENOUGH with the perpetuating of the old reagan canard that "I'm from the government and I'm here to help" is a bad thing. ENOUGH with the old bullshit about how government is automatically bad and oppressive. If government had been allowed to work, and to be fully funded, instead of the thinking that's been allowed to metastasize and is described in the link below, perhaps we'd have an Ebola vaccine developed, tested, and ready to use - in large quantities of availability now when we need it.

http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/3079:goodbye-to-all-that-reflections-of-a-gop-operative-who-left-the-cult

Those who advocate how horrible and oppressive The Government is (and I'm not suggesting here that you are actually one of those, mind you) don't realize what they're really wanting. Those who don't want any over-arching entity telling them what to do really are advocating for total anarchy. What they want is The Disunited States of Somalia - which includes no government, millions of hungry, homeless, disenfranchised, powerless and silenced, a few superrich lawless big shots and pirates and warlords in control of everything, and of course all the guns and ammo you can eat, unrestricted and unrestrained. Like it or not, civilization is about how you actually DON'T always get your way and get to do any ol' damn thing you feel like - when it poses a threat or danger or menace to those around you. Civilization is about being able to live together in an organized and regulated collective - WITH rules to follow that should cover everybody and work for the betterment of everybody. Rules are not just always something to bristle against and dismantled. Sometimes they're a good idea. And a life-saving one.