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In reply to the discussion: Even gangsters live in fear of Japan’s gun laws by Jake Adelstein [View all]quaker bill
(8,224 posts)The only real question is how many beserk gun owers will need to go off before we change. Change will come, but it will not be the "gun grabbers" that cause it, it will be the gun owners. At some point the death toll will be large enough, give it time. If one elementary school, shopping mall, or movie theater won't do it, beserk gun owners can be counted on to produce more.
As it is now, the mere killing of 4 or 5 relatives / ex-wife and her friends, or such only gets you brief mention in the media. There is just too much of that going on at this time spend alot of time on any one event. You really have to get up near or well into double digits among strangers or kids for sustained attention. The folks who want this attention will keep taking it up another notch, on this we can depend.
At some point the carnage will get horrific enough that something will be done. That something will be sudden, demanded by the people, and vastly exceed the "gun grabbers" wildest expectations.
I don't know when or if I will live to see it, but the course is set, only the gun owners could change it, and they won't.
History is cool.