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In reply to the discussion: Visa urged to to sever links with National Rifle Association [View all]BrotherIvan
(9,126 posts)Agreed, except I have removed the word "sensible". I have seen that is the loophole that gundamentalists jump through. It is their word and it translates to, maybe I'll accept some minor regulations but for the most part, none. "From my cold, dead hands" has quite literally been written on their hearts. As if somehow they will die if we curb access to guns. It is one of the strangest phenomena I have ever seen. They should be marginalized from the discussion as they have no intention of participating in a civil society.
A civil society has to get a grip on the violence within it. We are fighting nutjobs on all fronts and our country has descended into a Dark Age. I mean that in all sincerity. We have moved away from any enlightenment regarding the social contract and now must deal with outright falsehoods. In this very thread, some are arguing that deaths don't count or that we can't discuss gun deaths because that is playing politics. I'm starting to believe we need to enforce some kind of sanity such as Germany has done against holocaust deniers. If you pretend that somehow these deaths did not happen, or somehow they are statistically insignificant, or they aren't as important as your selfish fears, you should be forced to tend the grave of a murdered person every day of your life. I've had it with people so insane that they don't give a damn who dies all so they can cling to their guns.