(March 21, 2019 at 6:18 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: The difference between the US and NZ on this issue is that, when 50 people are shot to death, Kiwis are able to grasp that guns might (mind you I said 'might') be part of the problem.
Boru
Yes, but moreso our worship than the object itself. 40 years ago the NRA went from being a safety org to being a industry lobby. Since then the industry marketing has marketed firearms like toys and the tools of comic book super heros. There was a time when firearms in America were treated like the deadly objects they are and we had a better grasp of treating them as such.
Americans have to simply face the fact that this isn't 1776, and just like we don't use rotary phones en mass anymore, firearm technology is no longer merely muskets.
The worst part of how the far right reacts to things like this, is that the fact remains that NZ still is not banning all firearms, but merely doing the responsible thing to insure they are kept out of the wrong hands.
And the other nonsense the right doesn't face is that they keep using the bullshit line, "Don't punish responsible gun owners." The NZ shooter had no record at the time of buy, and legally bought them. That blows away the argument of trying to make legal vs illegal, the issue. One can fly under the radar, be disturbed and buy a firearm legally only to end up doing sick shit like that.
