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In reply to the discussion: Why can't more people figure this out? [View all]BainsBane
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If all you have is Wayne LaPierre's bullshit talking points, why even bother? Do you really think that we are a bunch of illiterate imbeciles who don't follow the news and believe that kind of nonsense?
The only proposal was to stop new sales of assault rifles, and there was no chance of it passing thanks to your friends in the corporate gun lobby and the NRA that spread the same false propaganda you are doing right here. No one tried to ban all the guns that clearly mean so much more to gun nuts than their fellow citizens or human life. But that doesn't stop them from working hard to blame your fellow citizens from daring to exercise their rights to free speech, the part of the constitution the gun lobby and their lackeys are working so diligently to eliminate.
Provide proof of ONE bill proposed recently that sought to ban all guns. Go on. If it's so common you should have no trouble finding it.
I know full well the true danger is not simply guns; the danger is gun evangelists--those who value corporate profits and the machinery of death over human life. These are people who consistently lie to the American public in order to promote corporate profits, that push Stand Your Ground laws and shall issue concealed carry because they want nothing more to unload their guns on another person. The issue is the paranoids who shoot at the site of a black man because they can't wait to use their toys and have no regard for human life. Add to that those who dream of doing exactly what their hero Zimmerman did and fall all over themselves to defend any use of a gun on unarmed children. The problem is that part of this country lacks the basic humanity or compassion to care at all about the victims of gun violence, people who defend killers over victims. No, the problem isn't guns alone, it's gun nuts. We have the highest homicide rate in the first world because gun nuts simply do not care who lives and dies. They care only about their own property and their desire to kill. I have talked to enough of them to know they spend a great deal of time thinking about killing other human beings.