(March 26, 2018 at 2:29 pm)Khemikal Wrote: Like I said, you do you. I'm going to continue to suggest that we prioritize things that might actually work in the list of what we want to barter with the nuts for.
I just don't think that a series of pyrrhic victories will ever amount to credible gun legislation. If I were a cynical negotiator (which I am) working for the nut lobby (which I'm not) I'd give you your mag ban knowing it wouldn't do shit but bump my profits, and extract a heavy toll from you for it. When the next school shooting inevitably occurred..it would be with legally purchased small mags and legally purchased tape.
(the value of the nras extremist position is that it sets up a deep roster of sacrificial issues)
OUR TOP priority should be breaking the back of the vile fear narrative of the industry and the leadership of the NRA.
Big oil would still have lead in gas, if nobody said it was dangerous. Tobacco wouldn't have stopped using Joe Camel if the the sane didn't stop them. Cars wouldn't have added seat belts and air bags if it were not for Nadar. But even with cars, even today, they are getting away with dangerous screen technology which might as well be a fucking TV on your dash. But that is a different topic.
The individual product is a problem, with all of those things. It is the ATTITUDE about all those things that prevents us from regulating them to do what you say, cause less death. Same can be said with fuel. Saying we need to get off of burning fossil fuel isn't a call to end all energy.
