Who remembers "Smoking or Non-Smoking"?

[SoCalDem]

Now it appears (if the NRA prevails), parents will have yet another criteria when choosing a school/community.

If guns are to be a regular facet of school-life in the future, look for a wider schism than we now experience. How long before we see advertising for "Firearm-protected schools v gun-free schools"? Perhaps the gun-folks will opt out of gun-free schools and start their own "new" schools (like the Christian storefront Jesus schoolfolk have done).

So many of these "shooters" seem to have a death-wish for themselves , so perhaps they would start to choose the gun-schools so they could fulfill their shoot-out fantasy in a more spectacular way..

"Gun-maps" might also start to play into homeowner's insurance policies and even life insurance policies, and real estate prices too. Want to live gun-less in a community of arsenal-builders? Perhaps that bucolic wonderland of a community you are interested in buying a home in, just may be too dangerous for kid-sleepovers.

[Skittles]

1. we ostracized smokers

we can do the same with gun nuts

[SoCalDem]

2. That's what will work..maybe

fingers crossed..

or perhaps when one of the big shots at the NRA gets a phone call that says.. "Bring a photo of your son/.daughter/grandchild, so we can identify their body".

[Skittles]

3. the NRA has forced gun nuttery to be mainstream

we can let them know what they really are - paranoid assholes

[onehandle]

5. That's exactly what is in progress.

The tipping point has been reached.

[HiPointDem]

7. not by making smoking illegal, though.

[Skittles]

9. it is illegal to light up in many, many places

I want gun nuts treated the same; I am sick of their ignorance and cowardice

[HiPointDem]

11. it's not illegal to buy or smoke cigarettes.

[Skittles]

12. RIGHT

BUT YOU CANNOT HAVE THEM EVERYWHERE - SMOKING IS NO LONGER MAINSTREAM AND NEITHER WILL GUN NUTTERY - it is NOT MAINSTREAM to be fearful and delusional!!!

[HiPointDem]

13. but you can buy & own cigarettes. without a license or showing id. i'm saying 'bad analogy' for

those who don't get it.

[SoCalDem]

14. When the ban was instituted here, we were told to explain it to customers this way:

Yes we know they are "legal", but so is soap.. & we sell both here, BUT we cannot allow you to strip down in aisle 4 & lather up...and we can sell you the tobacco, but you cannot "use" it here either...

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. I sure do remember "Smoking or Non-smoking."

I hope we don't get to "Guns or No Guns."

[LeftInTX]

6. I remember when the surgeon general's warning came out on cigarette packs

It was huge. I think it was in 1965. It was a big deal. I was only 9 years old. Neither of my parents smoked, but they talked about alot. It was also all over the news.

I also remember learning about the "dangers of guns". I can't remember if I saw it on TV or learned about it in school or both. But there was an education effort to get people to think twice before purchasing a gun. Wish those days would return.

[eShirl]

8. Not only that, I remember PRE-"smoking or nonsmoking"

Ashtrays everywhere, from the dentist waiting room, to elevators, department stores, and fast food joints.

[Skittles]

10. this is the kind of acceptance gun nuts want

time to put a halt to their fucking nonsense