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In reply to the discussion: What does a law abiding citizen need with an assault weapon?? [View all]Cosmocat
(15,501 posts)And in a country that has its head so far up its ass as we do, that is saying a lot.
This jackass didn't go into that night club and kill 50+ people with a 6 pack, the jackass who killed those kids in Newton didn't use a bottle of rum.
A few weeks ago, a small christian school five miles from our house, a student walked into the office and said he had guns in his trunk. Turns out that was the second day in a row he had brought them, and he was THAT close to go on a shooting rampage in the school.
Why is it that with guns, the "gee, people will get them anyways, so we can't have any meaningful limitations thing stands?
People speed anyways, so we should not have any posted speed limits or law enforcement should not be allowed to give tickets? People will cheat on taxes, so we shouldn't have or enforce tax laws?
Alcohol kills people, so hey, everyone should have the right to have a missile launcher.
We can't even START to have an honest discussion about this issue when the most basic element is completely off the table.
it's exactly like climate change, the complete denial of it ends any effort to truly try to address it. Only with climate change you at least have a majority of the people in this country who see it for the stupid it is.