Today I have re-thought my position on the second amendment.

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22. To all gun-nuts: You've HAD your say. You've HAD YOUR WAY! And THIS is what results.

All I feel is anger, Atypical Liberal. Not as much sadness. All I feel is anger!!!!

I think it's long past time to push past all those "Second Amendment or Bust" folks whose power and clout and money keeps preventing us from doing something decisive about this.

I was talking to my husband about this. What about those laws that stiffen the penalties for bar-tenders and restaurants and other purveyors of alcohol - if somebody drinks too much on their premises and then goes out and does harm to others? Can we impose penalties like that for gun shop owners, gun show owners and organizers, the real estate interests and property owners who own the damn PARKING LOTS OUTSIDE THE GUN SHOWS, and the property on which the gun shows are held - where all kinds of wink-and-a-nod shit goes down and anybody can get any gun they want with nobody following any rules? How 'bout if THEY face penalties as well?

I'm tired of listening to the Second Amendment advocates. HOW MANY MASS SHOOTINGS ARE OKAY???????? HOW MANY?????? Every last one of those mass shootings and carnage crimes - IS ON THEIR HEADS AND ON THEIR IMMORTAL SOULS.

And I think it ought to be on the books so it's in the LAW.

Martin Bashir was just talking about how the laws are so strict in the UK - that firearms are NOT used to resolve conflict among civilians there. Some 60 firearm-related deaths per year over there? We have that much almost PER DAY in this country!!!!!!