What I do know is that mass shootings amount to terrorism (since I send my son off to school every day and pray for his safety) and that they need to be stopped (or at least made much more difficult to accomplish).
I don’t have to know about guns to see that mass shootings…
What I do know is that mass shootings amount to terrorism (since I send my son off to school every day and pray for his safety) and that they need to be stopped (or at least made much more difficult to accomplish).
I don’t have to know about guns to see that mass shootings (or even random drive-bys, as happened to my son’s friend’s family) are a very real and very serious problem that no one appears to be addressing as such.
It seems so hopeless and, after what happened yesterday, infuriating. And it seems incomprehensible that this only happens here, but apparently no one in office is willing to address the root cause that separates us from every other country where this does not happen. But it only seems like no one is doing anything; the problem lays squarely at the feet of one political party. I don't always agree with Democrats, but the gun issue is one of the reasons I'll take a Democrat over a Republican any day (other reasons include climate and, more recently, preservation of democracy).
At this point, I really don't know what we would do. We can't get any laws passed to address the problem, and even if we could, I read in David Frum's short Atlantic piece yesterday that for every five Americans, there are six guns in this country. So there is the hurdle of passing laws, having those laws survive Second Amendment challenges in a 6-3 Republican SCOTUS, and then that's not even enough, because there are already so many guns that confiscations would be necessary, and that's total fantasy. Sandy Hook was the time for action; once that happened and there was no action, we were screwed.
This is a weird phenomenon.
I admit I don’t know much about guns.
What I do know is that mass shootings amount to terrorism (since I send my son off to school every day and pray for his safety) and that they need to be stopped (or at least made much more difficult to accomplish).
I don’t have to know about guns to see that mass shootings (or even random drive-bys, as happened to my son’s friend’s family) are a very real and very serious problem that no one appears to be addressing as such.
It seems so hopeless and, after what happened yesterday, infuriating. And it seems incomprehensible that this only happens here, but apparently no one in office is willing to address the root cause that separates us from every other country where this does not happen. But it only seems like no one is doing anything; the problem lays squarely at the feet of one political party. I don't always agree with Democrats, but the gun issue is one of the reasons I'll take a Democrat over a Republican any day (other reasons include climate and, more recently, preservation of democracy).
At this point, I really don't know what we would do. We can't get any laws passed to address the problem, and even if we could, I read in David Frum's short Atlantic piece yesterday that for every five Americans, there are six guns in this country. So there is the hurdle of passing laws, having those laws survive Second Amendment challenges in a 6-3 Republican SCOTUS, and then that's not even enough, because there are already so many guns that confiscations would be necessary, and that's total fantasy. Sandy Hook was the time for action; once that happened and there was no action, we were screwed.