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In reply to the discussion: Why anti-gun laws will never work in US [View all]quaker bill
(8,223 posts)right after a tragedy.
It is too late to talk about gun laws because there are millions of them out there everywhere and you can never collect them all.
Mass shootings are really quite rare so there is no need to talk about gun laws.
The bad guys will never give up their guns and you don't want to disarm the good guys, so let's not talk about gun laws.
There are a million rationalizations for not "talking about gun laws".
There are 26 far better reasons to begin (at Sandy Hook Elementary alone), and thousands more everywhere, every damn year.
Standing on street corners to protest the impending invasion of Iraq at some level made no sense. 9/11 was sitll fresh in the memory, the troops and equipment were mostly already there, George W Bush* occupied the Whitehouse, it was really clear that nothing we could do on the street corners was going to stop it.
Still it seemed both necessary and right to stand and speak the truth. It seems the time to stand and say enough has come again.