RE: This year in "sell more and do nothing"
January 24, 2019 at 3:50 pm
(This post was last modified: January 24, 2019 at 4:10 pm by Brian37.)
(January 24, 2019 at 3:39 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(January 24, 2019 at 2:55 pm)Brian37 Wrote: No, sorry, the issue that needs to be faced is what I said. We need to stop allowing one industry, one lobby and one party controlling the narrative.
You won't be able to effectively keep them out of the wrong hands, as long as we let those 3 groups monopolize our laws.
Unless you face the bigger picture first, you wont be able to address individual situations.
No different than a farmer over tilling their field long term and depleting the nutrients to the point the soil is useless.
Nothing you want to suggest now is going to work effectively unless the long term climate/attitude changes.
I am all for solutions, I am simply saying to get to those solutions you have to look at the long term picture.
YOU started this thread about the shooting in Florida. Now you don't want to talk about it? I'm not trying to 'suggest' anything at all. I just want to know how YOU know how this particular man armed himself.
Boru
Holy crap, only in the context that it was the most recent as part of a long term pattern of not facing a harsh truth.
If it had happened in California, I would have said California. Wait a few weeks or months, it will happen somewhere else in another state.
(January 24, 2019 at 9:25 am)tackattack Wrote: ease of access, flooded market, and crappy vetting laws might very well have played a part, or not. I agree with Brian (WHAT!!) though that those things do worsen what seems like a pandemic. Lots of stories about people selling tons of guns without licenses, shootings, suicides, accidental shotguns from the backseat, etc.
Not "very well have," DID AND DO!
And the only way to reduce firearm violence is to get the money out of congress that protects greedy people. The same can be said for too much power by corporations in general. Firearm companies are businesses like Exxon and Walmart, and as long as people with money bully congress, the rest of us are at their mercy.
^^^^^ None of what I just typed is a call to ban 100% of all firearms, much less end the private sector in general. Just simply pointing out where the majority of our nations problems stem from.
America's decline started with Reagan's deregulation and "don't tax the rich". Firearm companies are simply one industry that has benefited from 37 years of GOP dominating the narrative.
If you want to know where a problem is, follow the money.
My goal isn't to turn America into Cuba or ban all firearms, but to get us back to REASONABLE laws that are agreed on by all, not one sect, not one lobby or party.
Right now we don't have that.
