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

[Darque Wing]

209. Oh, don't get me wrong...

I don't expect any progress here. I fully expect that the willingness to entertain gun control now will evaporate soon, as the country goes about its business of finding some shiny new thing to screw up like the debt ceiling, and even if anything passes by then, it will be weak and ineffective. I fully expect that we have another two or three generations of this profoundly stupid attachment to the 2nd Amendment, another century of mass murderers and spree shooters and just plain everyday shootings before the political left *might* find the courage to start wondering about maybe one day thinking about making a future decision about it. Maybe another century before they actually do something.

You're right, murder isn't just a mental health issue. But it is par for the course. We live in Murderville, and as long as we keep making it easy for murderers by ensuring that the country remains hip-deep in guns, then we'll keep having them. And since nobody seems to be interested in stopping it, it continues on.

But worse, and here's the part that really hurts: the resistance from both right and left on this issue (from the right, the NRA; from the left, those who can't be bothered to try - just look up at the rest of this thread) makes me really not care so much about the murders. This is a country that is asking for it, literally, every day, begging and fighting to ensure that it continues. I know I'm pissing in the wind, and the behavior from both sides makes me think this is exactly the fate they have chosen together and deserve together. They can shoot each other to bits and bury their dead children and go back to ensuring that the next spree shooter has plenty of firepower, and the only thing I've learned out of all of this is that America deserves it.

So fuck it. Enjoy your stay in Murderville, where the entire political spectrum agrees that mass murder is constitutionally protected. If nothing else, this site has managed to knock the idea of stopping the murders right out of my head. I'm disgusted and done.