We have laws to protect from gays? Where? - F
lorida, Montana, Tennessee, Arkansas, Alabama, to name a few.
Thanks for the hyperbole. - There are literal laws governing what can be discussed in a classroom. Laws that are very vague, that some educators are finding intimidating for their lack of guidance about what can and can't be discussed without costing them their jobs and resulting in criminal charges. Apologies for taking us astray on R/D nonsense. I was more aiming at the point that we can pass legislation to stop words and thoughts from entering children's minds at school, but can't do shit about bullets entering them.
There's no better way to tell everyone you are 100% not engaged in finding a solution than by racing to a partisan government solution in the wake of a tragedy. - I could give a shit about who proposes and moves solutions.
I'm tired of seeing people dying unnecessarily to gun violence. I'm particularly tired of seeing children dying. I posted the above because I'm tired of the outrage and action from the right about protecting children from all these other evils, but not doing shit about guns, which are now the leading cause of death for Americans under 18 (passing motor vehicle accidents and rising). I'm pissed at the left for also not doing shit about gun violence. I'm particularly pissed about the people (politicians and regular citizens) who are not willing to move an inch on gun legislation when it's obvious that our current system is dogshit. One guy tries to explode his shoe in 2001 and we're still walking through airports in our socks. Timothy McVeigh and some Iraqis make bombs with fertilizer and DHS starts tracking who's buying what. 45,000 people die every year to gun violence and we just shrug. (Yes I'm counting suicides. Even ruling them out, 22,000 gun homicides is still way too many)
These soul-less hacks like Sen. Murphy who scream at Republicans and anti-gun-control people like they just committed murder are part of a mindless echo chamber. - I don't generally have a problem with people having guns, but I can understand the frustration of these people.
Gun laws have literally become less restrictive in response to mass shootings. I suspect they're also tired of the moving target of how we fix this - stop Muslim extremists, stop the drug trade, more doors, fewer exits, good guy with a gun, arm the teachers, mental health, etc. from people who will refuse to acknowledge the access to guns is a non-trivial part of the problem.
The response to this tragic police response and issue isn't gun control. - The response to all this gun crime needs to be some gun control. We can do plenty of other shit too, but we need to make changes to how the American society deal with guns. It wasn't a tragic police response in Dayton when a shooter was stopped 32 seconds into his rampage. Unfortunately, he shot 26 people, killing 9 in that 32 seconds. Police response in Las Vegas could have improved, but a shit-ton of people were still going to get shot and die. Ditto the Thousand Oaks shooting - 11 dead before cops could arrive at the bar. Similar to gun deaths in Chicago and suicides with handguns. The common denominator in all of this is guns. American society is either ok with all of this continuing, or we need to make compromises to make life safer for ourselves and those around us.
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