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Gun Control Reform Activism

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flamin lib

(14,559 posts)
Tue Mar 24, 2015, 12:09 PM Mar 2015

I can't imagine what it must be like to be so afraid [View all]

that you can't leave your home without a gun. The level of paranoia to need a gun to go to the grocery store or to take your children to a park or to church is beyond anything I can fathom.

What a sad and miserable way to live, imagining a need to protect yourself with a firearm when going about everyday activities in public.

Yet this need is so entrenched in a small group of Americans that politicians cater to their every need for a gun regardless of how counter intuitive it is. Guns in bars? Guns in church? Guns at political rallies? Guns in elementary schools? Guns at daycare centers?

If it weren't so frightening I'd feel pity for them.

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