One way to solve the no-gun-control problem

[jmowreader]

How we’d get Congress to agree to do it, I do not know.

In the Hunger Games movies they had these big plastic bubbles they used for the Reaping - the process of selecting a boy and a girl to be shipped off to the Capitol to get killed. Get two of those, and put every Republican Representative’s name in one and every Republican Senator’s name in the other. Every time one of them made an anti-gun control statement their name would go in again.

Then, every time we had a school shooting, they’d bring out the bubbles and draw one name from each for every person besides the shooter who got killed. Those who had their names drawn would be immediately kicked out of Congress and never again be allowed to run for public office.

One of two things would happen: either the GOP would “get religion” and work with us on a better way to stop these shootings than “more guns!” or we’d run out of Republicans and be able to do what needed to be done without them interfering. Either works for me.

[GenXer47]

1. another way - it's heartbreaking but necessary

is to simply make gun ownership socially unacceptable.
But it means telling off family members and friends who just don't get it, or refuse to look.
I've done it, and it hurts like hell.
But my kids come first and always will.
It's lonely being a leader, and standing against the tide is exhausting.
But we did it pretty well with cigarettes - we can do it with this too. When my budding gun-nut of a brother wakes up one day, alone with his guns and nobody else, perhaps he'll come around. Perhaps not.

[slightlv]

2. I think I lost a friendship over the gun issue, as well.

Friends couldn't travel from one city to ours without their guns, and they brought them into my house. Luckily, we're all older and no kids around. They stashed them in the back room closet. Still, they knew how I felt and there's been very little talk between us since. It hurts to lose friends over this, especially since I'm ex-military and was once (before age and eyesight went) a sharpshooter. I used to love target practice. But there's a point where you have to say "enough is enough" and this is just plain stupidity. We passed that point many, many years ago. I just wish my viewpoint hadn't lost me long-time friends.