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In reply to the discussion: What I Fear, What Made Me Drag my Feet on Gun Control: Brady-Style Gun Control [View all]Sekhmets Daughter
(7,515 posts)However, the discussion is always carried out by the extremists on both sides to the detriment of society. I'm old enough to remember when the majority of both parties respected their government, even if they didn't always agree with it.
I think you misread the founders and disregard the fact that they would be appalled by the lack of respect for the institution they worked so hard to establish. No government is perfect, but ours has become the perfect reflection of a population that is selfish, mentally lazy and lacking any real sense of morality or justice. It is morally corrupt to believe that an individual's right to own a gun trumps the right of another individual to live. That is the position taken by the second amendment crowd, and because that is their alpha and omega
all reasonable discussion is DOA.