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Gun Violence in America

There is a guy in rural America who is afraid that if you take away his AR-15, you're going to take away his great great great grandfather's musket from the Revolutionary War. So to ease his fears, we sacrificed a random 21 people in an elementary school, 19 children and 2 teachers. But are his fears really eased? He's still afraid because he knows it's what will eventually come, and what should come.

Heather Cox Richardson writes, "90% of Americans want to protect our children from gun violence, and yet those who are supposed to represent us in government are unable, or unwilling, to do so?”

I read someone that said there were laws to prevent the Uvalde massacre, more laws would not prevent it. I disagree. 

Why is America so distinctly more prone to this error? The availability of guns. I can bet if you took away half the guns in America this wouldn't happen as much. Take 75% of the guns away and it happens even less. Take 99% of the guns away and it never happens. 

There can be hunter clubs where membership gains access to guns so we don't lose hunting culture. Of course a well armed militia will have access to guns. The reality is that the fewer guns, the less gun violence. This is a public health issue. Preventable death and injury.

It's time to stop politicians from taking their cut of the blood money to keep gun businesses selling their death, more accountability from judiciary, and more leadership. It's time to start educating people, and shifting the culture away from acceptance of these evil equations. 

Take a look at the Gun Violence Archive to see this isn't an isolated incidence. Humans can't handle the responsibility of guns. Let's be pro-life around gun violence.

Look these people in the eye and tell them they deserve to die.


The split in America is between action and inaction. On the one hand there can be unintended consequences for action. On the other, there are real consequences that are traced back to those who do nothing. Not doing something causes things.

It's not super manly to be against doing things, so conservatives invent malarkey as a distraction. It's never going to seem sane or smart or anything, but they only want to please their base, there's no sense of taking care of everyone.

When conservatives say "mental health", they have slashed money to mental health, so they don't really believe in that as a solution, more as an explanation, like original sin, and the Christian model of human behavior. Because people have free will, they are going to do bad things. Not even God can stop their evil. 

So where is God in all this? You have to have faith to understand God's will. The NRA isn't taking any chances, you can't bring your gun to the event they're having, because they KNOW that is stupid. They don't have one door everyone goes through. They are painfully aware how dangerous guns are. They're just in flavor of people having them as a supposed freedom. They're not interested in the freedom from mass elementary school shootings. They believe in the freedom to commit them. That falls under free will and evil, mental health and blah blah blah. Not going to do anything.

There's going to be a lot of footage of republican politicians walking away from the questions of media. That's not what they want to talk about.

Gun violence is America's original sin. Free will is invented in an ad hoc effort to take away responsibility. The right also is against the government taking responsibility for the mental health of it's citizens. A common response is that the laws were broken, so making more laws won't solve anything, but I don't think that's true. There are proposals to hyper tax guns. As though that would pay for the life they take. 

The fear is that without guns America becomes vulnerable to invasion. Or even fear that the government will take more power if they have the guns and the citizens don't. Or that the criminals will find ways to find guns to exploit citizens. There's all kinds of reason making if you want free access to guns and there are quite a lot of Americans who wants that despite the rash of murder going on. Acceptable loss, because of free will, and the fears of what could happen if there are not enough guns. 

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