How about we treat every young man who wants to buy a gun like every woman who wants an abortion--

[kpete]

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[Blue Owl]

1. Musings from a sane world....

[StarryNite]

2. Great idea.

Works for me!

[KS Toronado]

3. Seen this dozens of times......

Still worth rereading and emailing to others.

[twodogsbarking]

4. Or we could do what we have been doing and get the same results.

[sop]

5. Gun fondlers say they must have guns so they can stand up to a tyrannical government.

Well, here's their chance to stand up to the government tyrants who want to force American women to give birth. Doesn't get more tyrannical than that.

[sanatanadharma]

6. Every gun owner is equivalent to an abortion doctor

The doctor has the know-how, skill, and tools to do what some people call murder.
The doctor may not, at this time, be aborting life.
The gun owner has the tool, perhaps not the skill or know-how, to do similar.
The function of the gun is to abort life.

[Kaleva]

7. Unfortunately, no one is going to make an effort to actually implement this.

[dickthegrouch]

10. By merely proposing it, someone has!

Now it’s up to us to enact it if we have the will.
I despise all the people here who put others off by saying it won’t happen. Obama won on hope and action. We’ll never win with anything less. Take your naysaying elsewhere, please.

[Kaleva]

11. Obama won 'cause he put in the effort, Every day for months and months.

MLK and Gandhi each made a difference because they dedicated their lives to their cause and risked everything.

I'd be very interested if you'd keep me informed on your daily efforts to do what the OP said. Just send a quick PM.

Looking fwd to reading about your progress and I wish you the best of luck!

If you aren't going to bother, let me know that too. I won't think less of you if you don't even try.

[dickthegrouch]

13. I see what you did there

Unless I put in daily effort I will have failed. That’s your standard. I choose my level of effort and I would never say that daily was not enough, that’s often how people get discouraged enough never to start. As we all know a constant level of effort by many people working together is what it takes. So I pass on the ridiculous additional effort to validate my work.

[Kaleva]

14. You are the one who used Obama as an example

One can tell how a person actually feels about an issue by the amount of effort they put in dealing with it.

Gandhi and MLK were jailed and ultimately lost their lives. Cindy Sheehan gave up her marriage, friends and job to fight for what she believed in .

How much effort you put in to it and how much you are willing to risk will tell me how much you actually care. If you put in little effort, then the issue is of little importance to you.

What would you think if I had told you that gardening is a very important part of my life and I love it and then find out I don't have a garden and never did have one? Or that what I call a garden is just a plot of weeds that I rarely do anything with? You'd rightly think I was just a bullshit artist.

[Wild blueberry]

8. Yes

[Mr.Bill]

9. Bad idea.

That would make California the easiest state to buy a gun in.

[hunter]

12. A modest proposal: People with testicles shouldn't be allowed to own or handle guns.

We could put castration clinics next door to every gun shop.

Testosterone and other steroidal androgens levels would be checked before every gun purchase, and randomly in the field as well, at shooting ranges, by game wardens, etc..

These same rules would apply to police and other law enforcement officers.

Whenever people with testicles were caught handling guns we would immediately castrate them, and ban them from owning or handling guns ever after.

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