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After they buy back all those AR-15s, let's send them to Ukraine.
On a more positive note, CNN had a story about Florida's Red Flag law, passed by Republicans before DeSantis became governor. People get to tell police about anybody who threatens with their gun. Often those are suicide gestures. The police investigate and can go take all their guns for a year. Then they get reevaluated to see if that ban should be extended. I think it said 31 states actually have such laws. The NRA is actively fighting them.
Yesterday, the House Judicial Committee advanced a Bill that includes measures to increase the purchase age limit for certain semiautomatic rifles to 21, limit magazine sizes and strengthen existing regulations of bump stocks and ghost guns.
Not one Republican voted to advance the Bill. Not one.
When I write that Republicans believe that school children who have sacrificed their lives is a small price pay for the liberty of ownership of any gun a Republican wishes to have - that's not hyperbolic, that is reality.
Yes...yes...knives kill people, obviously. But, not at 60 different incidences every, single, day in America. Mebbe once or twice a year at best? BIG difference and silly comparison.
I think the point was, a "mass stabbing" is not nearly as destructive as a mass shooting. None of the victims died in this instance.
A well reasoned argument is like a diamond: impervious to corruption and crystal clear - and infinitely rarer.
Here, as elsewhere, people are outraged at what feels like a rigged game -- an economy that won't respond, a democracy that won't listen, and a financial sector that holds all the cards. - Robert Reich
What do you say to people that 18 is considered when one becomes an adult, becomes responsible for his actions? At 18 one is considered responsible enough to vote, responsible enough to join the military, to drive a car or fly a plane on their own. To get married, get a job, join a union, open a bank account, is legally in a court of law a responsible adult in all things.
If an 18-year-old is responsible enough for all the above, why not buying a gun or certain types of guns? Or should we make 21 as the age for all the above?
I’ve always had a problem with mandatory age limits. I’ve known 14 and 15 years more responsible that either you or I in things like owning a gun and have known 65-year old’s who are totally irresponsible in almost everything they do. Everyone is different and matures differently, some faster, some slower, I’d say some never mature. ALA Trump, the 75-year-old who acts and behaves like a four-year-old spoiled brat whose parents never taught him any manners.
It's high past time that we start electing Americans to congress and the presidency who put America first instead of their political party. For way too long we have been electing Republicans and Democrats who happen to be Americans instead of Americans who happen to be Republicans and Democrats.
I think that the solutions are pretty much known and utilized by the the rest of the world! The shame is that the Republicans are quite willing to sacrifice everything in an effort to convince everybody that they are right and the entire rest of the world is wrong! What stuns me is that people are willing to vote for people like that. It also means that the Dems are doing a REALLY poor job of selling themselves to the voting public. If this is right then we deserve to lose our democracy.
Turning 18 with sudden adult responsibilities being bestowed upon an individual is asinine. Brain development isn’t completed until 25 years of age. Making 25 years of age seems more fair and reasonable.
For me that would mean drinking, smoking, credit cards, legal agreements, having a gun.
Kill Bill was more than just gratuitous violence. It was gratuitous violence taken to extremes that only Tarantino can possibly achieve. The point was that only knives were used.
Katana fetishism. It's also a thing. Machete fetishism in some backwater African countries.
A church congregation was just massacred in Nigeria, guns not knives, Catholics, no one has taken credit for the killings yet but there is some conflict between farmers and herders which was likely the cause of it.
People are gratuitously violent. Always have been. Doesn't much matter whether you're into it or not. It happens every day.
