By 'business as usual', I meant mass shootings.  But thank you for - yet again - missing a glaringly obvious point.

Boru

(November 8, 2018 at 7:42 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: By 'business as usual', I meant mass shootings.  But thank you for - yet again - missing a glaringly obvious point.

Boru

Maybe I did miss your point. But my point is we have a flooded market and ease of access epidemic.  If arming everyone made us safer, we'd be the safest nation in the world.

(November 8, 2018 at 8:01 am)Brian37 Wrote:

(November 8, 2018 at 7:42 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: By 'business as usual', I meant mass shootings.  But thank you for - yet again - missing a glaringly obvious point.

Boru

Maybe I did miss your point. But my point is we have a flooded market and ease of access epidemic.  If arming everyone made us safer, we'd be the safest nation in the world.

We all know what the problem is. What are you doing about it?

Boru

I can't see how the guns are going to be taken out of the reach of these nutters any decade soon. It would have happened by now if it was going to happen and I think the chances of it happening actually decrease with each subsequent shooting due to desensitisation and learned helplessness.

I think attempting to tackle the mental illnesses, and the causes of those mental illnesses, which the perpetrators harbour, has a far higher chance of success in stemming this horrific blight. Every man for himself/dog eat dog friendless capitalism and wealth accumulation as a prevailing paradigm has a lot to answer for IMO for starters. The Wolf of Wall Street is, in fact, the most depressing and hopeless film I've ever watched.

Tackling the mental illnesses would also doubtless help millions of others who are depressed/furious etc but manage not to actually go totally postal.

(November 8, 2018 at 8:06 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:

(November 8, 2018 at 8:01 am)Brian37 Wrote: Maybe I did miss your point. But my point is we have a flooded market and ease of access epidemic.  If arming everyone made us safer, we'd be the safest nation in the world.

We all know what the problem is. What are you doing about it?

Boru

So there is some law that everyone who wants something done, has to land on the beaches of Normandy, or be a Malala or Martin Luther King Jr?

This isn't the only website I post at FYI. I contact my elected leaders quite often online. I contact my local and national media online too. I call my elected officials too. I frequently contact my local TV stations too. 

If an asshole bully like the orange Turd is smart enough to see social media as a way to sell his garbage, and knows that is where the battle is at, then why should I not use the same medium he does to do the same to counter the bad arguments the right makes?

This breaks my heart.

Quote:So there is some law that everyone who wants something done, has to land on the beaches of Normandy, or be a Malala or Martin Luther King Jr?

Nope, and I never said there was.  I simply asked what you were doing about the gun issue.

 

Quote:This isn't the only website I post at FYI. I contact my elected leaders quite often online. I contact my local and national media online too. I call my elected officials too. I frequently contact my local TV stations too. 

Outstanding!  Keep making your voice heard.

Quote:If an asshole bully like the orange Turd is smart enough to see social media as a way to sell his garbage, and knows that is where the battle is at, then why should I not use the same medium he does to do the same to counter the bad arguments the right makes?

I think you're doing exactly the right thing.

Boru

(November 8, 2018 at 8:01 am)Brian37 Wrote:

(November 8, 2018 at 7:42 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: By 'business as usual', I meant mass shootings.  But thank you for - yet again - missing a glaringly obvious point.

Boru

Maybe I did miss your point. But my point is we have a flooded market and ease of access epidemic.  If arming everyone made us safer, we'd be the safest nation in the world.

Are you in favor of illegalizing the sale of guns? If no - how then do you stop the free market of guns?

Gun ownership isn't going to decline until people prone to buy guns feel safe. Given that they are safer than they were 20 years ago, being safer doesn't translate into them feeling safer.

(November 8, 2018 at 8:57 am)DodosAreDead Wrote: This breaks my heart.

Ouch, watching that hurt big time. I hope he and his son regain their peace in no time.