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In reply to the discussion: It's very simple: If you want new gun control laws, you need the cooperation of legal gun owners. [View all]beevul
(12,194 posts)Look at some of the replies you've gotten.
"They love their guns, more than they love children".
Makes it crystal clear that they view it as one or the other, doesn't it? And other replies, they make it crystal clear, that if we disagree with their methodology...their "way", we become the hated "other", the "obstructionist", the "extremist", the "gun humper", the "gun fucker", and on and on.
It has been suggested to them for years, that they need to dump the most extreme among them and their extreme methodology, but they don't listen.
They propose, as answers to terribly tragic events, things which will not prevent those events, things which in fact, they have been pushing for for over a decade...and they really think nobody can see it. "Universal background checks", "the gun show loophole", "magazine capacity restrictions". All are examples.
Cho bought his gun legally, passed a background check, and used standard capacity magazines.
None of the proposals I mentioned would stop the next cho, or the next theater shooter, or the next columbine, or the next sandy hook.
It wouldn't surprise me if pointing out that inconvenient little fact gets me accused of loving guns more than I love children, but honestly, I don't care what they say anymore, where things like that are concerned. It hurts them and their efforts more than anything else, and only strengthens our resolve.
I honestly don't think its about anything except the anti-gun types getting what they want, and poking us in the eye at every opportunity along the way, where a large number of them are concerned. Many of the replies to you in this thread, are elegant proof of that concept.
Your heart is in the right place, but you're speaking to an audience that can not hear your message.