I don't want to hear it

[EnergizedLib]

I don’t want to hear the talking points from the gun lovers.

I don’t want to hear about the Second Amendment and the Constitution - not if one amendment is so sacred to you, but the others are not.

I don’t want hear about you needing guns to combat a tyrannical government - not if you’ll vote for someone who says they’d be a dictator and if you say on camera that American needs one.

I don’t want to hear about freedom - not if you’re for making it harder to vote, not if you want to tell two consenting adults what they can and can’t do or who they can and can’t marry, not if you’re interested in forcing your religion on everybody else.

I don’t want to hear about other things used as weapons - considering almost anything can be one, but many things used as weapons weren’t designed to be weapons. Furthermore, if other things can be used as weapons, other things can be used as self defense.

I don’t want to hear about guns being purchased illegally - since guns purchased legally can and are used like this.

I don’t want to hear about criminals not following laws and law-abiding citizens - then what’s the point of laws, by your logic? Everybody is a law-abiding citizen until they’re not.

I don’t want to hear about how guns don’t kill people - if they save lives, they also kill. And people will, with guns, and you can kill more people and do so faster with firearms.

I don’t want to hear about how more guns are the answer - because if they are, why does this happen in this country, no matter what state and what state’s gun laws? Why do other countries issue travel advisories to their citizens about them coming here because of our gun laws?

I don’t want to hear about mental health - not if you refuse funding for it.

It’s good to know I could be a victim of gun violence and countless people will act like my life and this would-be tragedy doesn’t matter.

If I had the power to unilaterally repeal the Second Amendment, I’d have done so years ago and banish all guns from existence.

Sorry, I’m not sorry.

[MadameButterfly]

1. What he/she said

[CrispyQ]

2. Lots of good points,

but your point about fighting a tyrannical government but voting for the guy who want to be a dictator was most excellent!!

[EnergizedLib]

3. Thanks

[Ohioboy]

29. I agree

Your point about supporting a would- be tyrant is a very good one.

[malaise]

4. Great OP

Rec

[EnergizedLib]

5. I appreciate it

I wish I didn’t have to make such a post.

[Mr. Evil]

6. Let's just say for shits and giggles,

that TFG wins and shreds the constitution. These amazingly dumbest of the super dumb shit-for-brains idiots don't realize if that happens there would no longer be any 2nd amendment rights. Here's a book just for them.

[EnergizedLib]

7. And certainly

You couldn’t fight a tyrannical government.

[Mr. Evil]

8. Yup!

Another reality they will never understand.

[ShazzieB]

10. Man! I sure wish that was a real book!

There are a lot of people in this country who need to read a book like that!

[Mr. Evil]

15. You're so right about that!

I think maybe only 10% would actually get it. But, it would be a start.

[berniesandersmittens]

9. A fucking men nt

[Skittles]

11. fuck gun humping cowards

fuck them ALL

[DC77]

12. Excellent points

The hypocrisy and paradoxes of today’s Republican majority are almost infinite. Yet, I think deep down, they know this. Logic fails.

[StClone]

26. It's hypocrisy when they state a good guy with a gun...

...it's the GUN that keeps us all "safe." But when an armed mass murderer appears it is the mass murderer who does the killing!

[llmart]

13. Righteous rant and I agree with all of it!

It's long past time to demolish the NRA and its influence on politicians. I only hope that the younger generations do a better job at getting the guns out of our society than we did.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

14. I'm so tired of people essentially saying guns are more important than lives.

And clearly, the shooter/s in Kansas City targeted children.

[Leith]

16. I agree 100%

Their talking points are too stupid to bother with.

[spanone]

17. K&R

[blm]

18. 🙏🏽

[StarryNite]

19. The gun humpers see the victims of shootings

only as collateral damage to their precious right to have guns. If it's not somebody they loved who was killed with a gun the only thing that makes them cringe is that each shooting might make it more difficult for them to have and keep their guns in the future. Of course that never happens.

[chouchou]

20. "I don't want to hear about mental health - not if you refuse funding for it."

That's the biggie.
The republicans short-circuited mental-health help and funds.
Then they made guns a household NEED.
People from other countries think we're nuts. Not so much nuts..just depressed-as-hell. I don't feel that way but many people I've work with..are.

[EnergizedLib]

22. Well, I'm clinically depressed

Republicans don’t want to fund a n y t h i n g

And that’s a problem.

[OldBaldy1701E]

23. Oh, yes they do.

Their own d**kwaving lifestyles. But, other than that, you are correct.

[onecaliberal]

21. K&R

[Barry Markson]

24. And I don't want to hear that just because the shooters were young black men

It makes all common sense gun control arguments null and void!

The gun humping magats do this shit every goddamned time!

Link to tweet

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NO, WE WON'T ALL STAY SILENT NOW!

[EnergizedLib]

28. I'm pretty I sure I want gun control

No matter who the perpetrator is.

[Liberal In Texas]

25. What you said. n/t

[dlk]

27. Well said

The level of daily gun violence in our country is beyond sickening.

[Hotler]

30. If the fascist take power you may change your tune when the christian taliban starts going door to door

rounding up Dems & Libs for internment camps and ovens. I don't know about you, they're not taking me alive. If the orange one takes power only his minions will be able to have guns. This point in our history might be the reason the 2nd amendment was written.

[The Mouth]

32. I'll disarm the day the last MAGAt does

[IbogaProject]

31. I want to hear about "well regulated militia"

As that regulation is Necessary for our Collective Security. I'm in favor of heavy trucks, which carry stringent operator requirements and insurance. Let us let the Free Market value the societal costs through mandatory insurance and no free loading.

[calimary]

33. With you 100,000 percent!

My retort usually is some version of - “okay, then: if I shut up, can I have my two friends back?” (An argument between them grew so heated that she grabbed the gun in the house and blew him away, then hid behind a door and blew herself away - AFTER her terrified mom had heard the first shot and started screaming her name to make sure the worst she’d feared - really hadn’t happened.)