If the Democrats pass and Obama signs a new AWB would you still support Dems?

[Darque Wing]

31. Not stopping there.

Anything less than abolishing the Second Amendment is just pretending to look busy.

While Washington bickers and moans about an assault weapons ban that will have holes in it large enough to fit an entire barge full of semi-automatics, people keep dying. Millions of new guns every year enter circulation - the circulation that is the sole source of guns for all those "bad guys" that the gun fetishists think they're protecting themselves from.

To keep that supply line open is to keep putting lethal weapons in the hands of killers.

Maybe one day America will have seen enough dead children, enough carnage, enough bloodshed to finally figure out what other first-world countries have known for a long time: it isn't about mental illness, or training, or having enough armed guards. Humans are just plain violent creatures, always have been, and probably will be far into the foreseeable future. That isn't going to change just by blaming it on the mentally ill (especially awful when we just had a chance to institute a meaningful mental health program under the banner of universal health care, but skipped it in order to give a long, sloppy wet kiss to the insurance industry in the form of the Affordable Care Act). The only way to stop the spree shootings is to stop making the guns accessible - to not only permanently end the supply of millions of new guns every year, but to begin a thorough collection and destruction program for the 300 million+ guns that are already in circulation.