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The American Obsession With Firearms - Being Held Hostage By Gun Nuts and Fear
Gun Fanatics: No One Wants to Take Your Guns!
Confiscation of firearms will never happen in the United States. It isn't constitutionally legal. But, that doesn't stop gun fanatics from obsessively anguishing about it. Almost any conversation about new gun laws in response to a mass shooting, if there is a gun zealot present, you'll get the standard admonition: "We won't give up our guns!"
It is their way of shutting down any conversation about restructuring firearms regulations to avert mass shootings. Mass shootings, more times than not, committed by people that should never be in possession of a firearm, let alone several high-powered automatic weapons.
NBC News reports that eighty-two percent of the firearms used in mass shootings over the last thirty years were obtained legally. It is reasonable to believe that more than three quarters of those mass shootings could have been avoided with stricter, uniform, firearms legislation, a waiting period, and broader, deeper, background checks.
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Fear of confiscation is an irrational fear of an action that has never been suggested by anyone with the power make it happen, never. The fear stems from deep seated insecurity. The country is changing, fast. Firearms seem to be a security blanket, the white male's mental fortress, against time and societal change. Black and Latino communities have guns too, a lot of guns. But for a much different purpose, foremost personal and family safety. There isn't the paranoid, "tyrannical government," fear of others and change, that seems to run through white patriot groups.
https://soapboxie.com/us-politics/theguncontrolissue
It is their way of shutting down any conversation about restructuring firearms regulations to avert mass shootings. Mass shootings, more times than not, committed by people that should never be in possession of a firearm, let alone several high-powered automatic weapons.
NBC News reports that eighty-two percent of the firearms used in mass shootings over the last thirty years were obtained legally. It is reasonable to believe that more than three quarters of those mass shootings could have been avoided with stricter, uniform, firearms legislation, a waiting period, and broader, deeper, background checks.
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Fear of confiscation is an irrational fear of an action that has never been suggested by anyone with the power make it happen, never. The fear stems from deep seated insecurity. The country is changing, fast. Firearms seem to be a security blanket, the white male's mental fortress, against time and societal change. Black and Latino communities have guns too, a lot of guns. But for a much different purpose, foremost personal and family safety. There isn't the paranoid, "tyrannical government," fear of others and change, that seems to run through white patriot groups.
https://soapboxie.com/us-politics/theguncontrolissue
Gun nuts have been sold a bill-of-goods about the "mean old gubbmint gonna take are guns," and they buy it (along with more guns) every time. The right-wing gun lobby and the gun manufacturers hold hands all the way to the bank while the gullible gun humpers pay the bills.
Vote Democratic and help to reverse this public health menace to our society, and enact common sense gun control measures sooner rather than later.
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