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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]billh58
(6,640 posts)representative of the general American gun control advocate goals, and I suspect that you know that full well. Like the lumping of ALL gun owners into a single "abused" demographic, the misinformation and half-truths used by Gun Humpers and their apologists would be humorous if it wasn't so sad.
Here's the deal: not all gun owners are gun fetishists, and not all gun control advocates want to totally abolish guns. There is already consensus for a middle ground, but the NRA and its "cold dead hands" extremists (does NOT include ALL gun owners) will not allow ANY dialog on the subject of gun control.
I suspect that your motives for posting this OP are genuine enough, but you are only using gun-nuttrery talking points without giving any consideration to the millions of Americans (both political Parties) who have had enough of NRA-induced insanity concerning the proliferation of guns, and the overall loosening of gun regulations.
This controversy is NOT about the Second Amendment (as the NRA would have us believe) -- it is about Americans being maimed and dying needlessly due to a lack of oversight and regulation. We Americans have managed to reduce automobile- and tobacco-related deaths through regulation. Why not work toward reducing gun-related deaths?
Yes, there are extremists on both sides of most issues, but after years of trying to have a rational conversation with DU Gungeoneer Gun Humpers, they deserve what they are receiving now that public opinion is becoming fed up with the carnage. Sane gun regulation is coming, and it will take as long as it takes.
We Democrats have a history of being resilient, and of being focused. The defeat of this gun insanity plague on our country will be no different, and we WILL prevail.