Why do we allow gun massacres?

[vlyons]

Because gun manufacturers run the NRA, which BRIBES politicians with obscene amounts of "campaign donations." That is the primary reason. Those politicians, in turn, generate bullshit rationalizations about 2nd amendment "gun rights." Bullshit because the 2nd amendment is about well-regulated state militias bearing arms, not individuals. Regulated, as in states pass laws and regulations about who and when militias can bear and use arms.

Obviously the root of the problem is the greed of gun manufacturers. After that the problem is our inability to address campaign finance reform.

[bucolic_frolic]

1. What's good for bullets is good for business /nt

[Ferrets are Cool]

2. 50 Senators are holding America hostage.

[Calista241]

3. It's more than that.

Manchin, Tester and others won't support bans and other types of gun control.

[Ferrets are Cool]

5. This is the message WE must scream from the mountains.

50 Senators are holding America hostage.

[vlyons]

4. It's worse. 50 senators have concluded that gun lobby money and messaging

is more important than the gun massacre of school children.

[rownesheck]

6. Along with that,

there is a large segment of the population who suffer from the disease of immaturity. For instance, there are people in their 30s and 40s who drive these monstrous jacked up trucks that look like giant versions of a fucking Hot Wheels toy.

You look at these fucking guns people are buying and building, and they look like giant versions of a fucking toy. The people who want these things have a serious mental deficiency. Parts of their brains are probably severely under developed.

No rational, mature adult would want these things, and yet we as a nation coddle these fucks and allow them to act like fucking children.

If you're gonna be immature, be immature about shit that isn't going to harm other people. Do as I've recently done, and take up skateboarding. I'm only going to hurt myself.

[in2herbs]

7. I would add that we have a majority on the USSC that allow it with their rulings. nt

[Midnight Writer]

8. Absolutely. This idea that any gun, anywhere, by anyone is protected by 2nd Amendment is recent.

These gun "protections" have come about in the last 50 odd years because of intense lobbying and activism by, well, by who knows who.

Another "follow the money" mystery. Part of the funding for the gun lobby seems to come from businesses and foreign sources who do not have the best interests of our country in mind.

[budkin]

9. "Freedom"

So much freedom