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EnergizedLib

(2,612 posts)
Wed Feb 14, 2024, 08:00 PM Feb 2024

I don't want to hear it [View all]

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.

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I don't want to hear it [View all] EnergizedLib Feb 2024 OP
What he/she said MadameButterfly Feb 2024 #1
Lots of good points, CrispyQ Feb 2024 #2
Thanks EnergizedLib Feb 2024 #3
I agree Ohioboy Feb 2024 #29
Great OP malaise Feb 2024 #4
I appreciate it EnergizedLib Feb 2024 #5
Let's just say for shits and giggles, Mr. Evil Feb 2024 #6
And certainly EnergizedLib Feb 2024 #7
Yup! Mr. Evil Feb 2024 #8
Man! I sure wish that was a real book! ShazzieB Feb 2024 #10
You're so right about that! Mr. Evil Feb 2024 #15
A fucking men nt berniesandersmittens Feb 2024 #9
fuck gun humping cowards Skittles Feb 2024 #11
Excellent points DC77 Feb 2024 #12
It's hypocrisy when they state a good guy with a gun... StClone Feb 2024 #26
Righteous rant and I agree with all of it! llmart Feb 2024 #13
I'm so tired of people essentially saying guns are more important than lives. PoindexterOglethorpe Feb 2024 #14
I agree 100% Leith Feb 2024 #16
K&R spanone Feb 2024 #17
🙏🏽 blm Feb 2024 #18
The gun humpers see the victims of shootings StarryNite Feb 2024 #19
"I don't want to hear about mental health - not if you refuse funding for it." chouchou Feb 2024 #20
Well, I'm clinically depressed EnergizedLib Feb 2024 #22
Oh, yes they do. OldBaldy1701E Feb 2024 #23
K&R onecaliberal Feb 2024 #21
And I don't want to hear that just because the shooters were young black men Barry Markson Feb 2024 #24
I'm pretty I sure I want gun control EnergizedLib Feb 2024 #28
What you said. n/t Liberal In Texas Feb 2024 #25
Well said dlk Feb 2024 #27
If the fascist take power you may change your tune when the christian taliban starts going door to door Hotler Feb 2024 #30
I'll disarm the day the last MAGAt does The Mouth Feb 2024 #32
I want to hear about "well regulated militia" IbogaProject Feb 2024 #31
With you 100,000 percent! calimary Feb 2024 #33
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