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In reply to the discussion: "We stop being something to be proud of when we love our guns more than we love our children" [View all]thefool_wa
(1,867 posts)Who will ALWAYS HAVE GUNS! You will never stop criminals from illegally obtaining weapons, PERIOD, and those people will always kill others, PERIOD.
PLUS, many of those, most likely the majority, were perpetrated by hand guns which aren't even being considered for regulation at this point. If you think anything they are proposing now is going to in any way stem that number, you are delusional. It never has before.
I get the feeling no one has taken the time to note that I have an idea for something that MIGHT help, its posted below. Its consistent with the idea of a regulated militia (which you will note is PRIVATE MILITARY, so ya, 2nd amendment guarantees military hardware that can be bore by a single person) and removes high capacity militia weapons from private homes. Its closer to a solution than anything being proposed currently.
We will never live in this magical "gun free" society all of you think we should move towards, it will NEVER happen. You will never remove the guns from the hands of criminals intent to do harm, NEVER. All we can do is gird ourselves against it.
My reality is the same as yours, you are just ignoring most of the facts in order to bolster your point, where I accept your facts as an inevitability. You are wishing for a perfect world that is never going to exist, so who lives in reality?