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In reply to the discussion: "We stop being something to be proud of when we love our guns more than we love our children" [View all]ReRe
(10,597 posts)... But, just because something has happened since the dawn of mankind does not mean we should think we can't change. Thousands of years of wrongs don't make something right or inevitable. Believe it or not, that's the kind of BS I've heard in church before. "There's always been suffering. Suffering is good." or "There's always been poor people." "Or there's always been war". (BTW, the church lost me with those excuses. I finally walked out and never went back.) Or like the crap that was started by Reagan or Lee Attwater beck in the '80s "Poor people want to be poor." I don't buy that argument. Never did, never will.
Gun controls that are being discussed "subvert the purpose of the second amendment."???? You lost me there. So the 2nd amendment is only about taking on the "tyrannical government." Is that what you think the 2nd amendment is about, bottom line? Do you realize how irrational that sounds? Really? If you are honestly a sane individual, you can't believe that. Maybe back in the late 1780s-1790s. But today? You're going to take on the USG with assault weapons? Really. Listen to yourself, man.
I've got to go live life (cook dinner).