Can We Just All Accept Reality? Guns Are Not Going Away.

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30. Nobody wants to accept the "reality of gun violence".

And nobody is asking anyone to accept the "reality of gun violence".


I do note however, that you talk about "gun control advocates".

When "gun control advocates" turn into "gun violence prevention advocates", and can accept that there are other ways to combat gun violence than gun control, maybe we can actually sit down and have a conversation.

Either way, you aren't going to get much, if any, more gun control than you already have, other than in a few anti-gun strongholds.

The way things currently stand, in spite of whatever polls you might post attempting to show the contrary, gun control on the federal level costs more votes than it brings to the table. Gun rights support, on the other hand, has no attatched parallel political cost.

What that means, is this:

Gun violence prevention advocates NEED the support of gun rights supporters if they want to get anything done legislatively. Gun rights supporters don't NEED the support of gun violence prevention supporters to get things done legislatively.

Think about that, really hard, and ask yourself if thats likely to change.