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In reply to the discussion: What are you going to do this week to support expanded background checks? [View all]BainsBane
(53,032 posts)and now you want more. After Sandyhook, the president proposed a range of measures (the Democratic president we are going to theoretically imagine you support since you're on a Democratic site). Gunners were furious. They even blamed the failure of an entirely distinct amendment on background checks, the most modest of measures, on the fact that Americans had the audacity to voice their desire for limits on the type of guns. So I start with what everyone says they support, only it turns out they've been lying all along. They don't really support it. So I have learned that it is impossible to compromise with extremists.
There is nothing more I can do. Either you privilege criminals or public safety. If you want to choose the former, that's who you are. I cannot make you care about other human beings, the children killed from felons who acquire weapons. If you don't care, you don't care. That's your choice. If you don't support something this modest, we are on the same side of nothing. So be well with your assault rifles and 100 round drums that mean so much to you.