I'm sure every one of you have had a similar experience. I am from the Texas, so saying you are even for moderate gun control puts you just left of an eco-terrorists. However, I decided, since it's my job to educate, to try, on facebook mind you, have an adult discussion about guns and posted a link to an article basically saying it was time to have the discussion over assault weapons, magazine size, etc.
Well, I was immediately attacks as being an anti-second amendment thug who wanted to take everybody's guns away. Now I finally calmed the wolves down after assuring them that I was not anti-second Amendment, since I actually knew what the amendment meant, nor was I against hunting or recreational target practice. From what I gathered from this increasingly pointless conversation as multiple gun nuts joined in is that gun owners seem to collectively believe the, and I am summarizing here, bad things happen, people will be murdered, and they will be murdered by guns, so we are just supposed to live with it and, by all means, never infringe upon their rights to own whatever weapon they want, even though you can show them proof that reasonable gun laws can help deter gun violence.
After hours and hours of arguing I finally realized as a nation we are screwed as long as these people run it (and they are in a majority, especially here) because there is no compromising with them, no getting through to them, and no changing their minds. In fact, I found that the more I referenced shootings and the more grotesque I got with the victims the more they solidified their distinct opposition to any form of control. Even to the point that, and quoting here, "its sad children died, but I'll be damned if I give up my privileges to stop it."
Lets' face it people, for some things to change some generations are going to have to die off and I think this middle age to older gun owner generation is just a group that we are never going to change and until then, this country will see more and more horrific killings. By hey, we will all pray for the victims right?
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