(June 9, 2022 at 4:48 pm)Mermaid Wrote:Quote:That’s how 2A-ers think - anyone who offers even a modest proposal regarding lessening gun violence obviously wants to take all guns from everybody, criminalize gun ownership, and ban the manufacture and importation of any weapon more powerful than a nerf gun.
It just ain’t so.
Boru
Exactly right. And this is what keeps this fucking rollercoaster just going and going. We think and pray over kids that die. We argue over the solution. We do exactly nothing. Lather, rinse, repeat.
I had a front row seat to a shooting last August in Michigan. It barely made the news. The kid was in custody for threatening to shoot up his school and his mother begged and pleaded with the law for them to keep him locked up. They didn't. The day they took off his ankle bracelet, he set to work on his manifesto. He got access to his grandfather's guns (one of which he had carved Nazi symbols into) and shot two people, killing one, before shooting himself in the head. He shot countless rounds toward the crowd of people who were there, including myself. Had his grandfather had an AR in his gun collection instead of the Ruger he had, I probably would be dead today, along with a lot of other people who were there.
By the way, there was at least one man who was armed at the beach that day. It did fuck all to save the couple that were shot.
One thing the gun crowd gets right is that firearms are no more dangerous than any other piece of machinery in the right hands. OLB having guns is not a problem. Where he and I disagree is on what should be done to address gun violence.
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson