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In reply to the discussion: Your second amendment rights are getting in the way of our rights. [View all]Pholus
(4,062 posts)You know I'd probably be more pissed off about it if it, you know, actually *existed* in a form analogous to gun culture.
Maybe I wouldn't consider your words as a pathetic attempt at a redirect if we had a NKA or NFA awash in special interest money running around ranking politicians on a single issue irrespective of everything else so this country gets even more fucked up than it already is.
I'm glad guns worked out well for your wife. Nobody wants to see anyone hurt. But anecdote is not data. My world view is shaped by personal experience as well though I will also predict you are not capable of processing why it is relevant.
My idiot gunloon brother works a decent job but still forced his children to grow up in a literal hovel so he could feed his gun addiction. House valued at $5k, hand-me-down hand-me-down furniture which was ripped stained and broken -- heard him brag his gun collection was worth $50k and that was 30 years ago. Family vacations? Forget it. New clothes for his kids? Not a chance. College? Sure, take some loans. Shooting vacations! You betcha and sign him up for a couple weeks a year! Proudly donated to every NRA campaign since 1980.
Guns are every bit as personally destructive as guns or alcohol for certain personality types. Of course, there is a strong and active effort to prevent ANYTHING which could regulate that. We have the SECOND FUCKING AMENDMENT to consider after all!
Oh yes, it's one of your rights. But when I remember my brother telling me how he was a single issue voter -- that he didn't give a crap what else was done except for the votes on guns -- I realize that second amendment rights people only care about that one single right. The rest of the rights can go hang as long as they have their little security blankets.
Thanks for that by the way. As far as I am concerned, YOU share in the blame. Every time you blab on and on about guns I see the Batman shooter and my dear brother are standing right next to you. You own them, you own the problems they brought about as well. Yes, you have your wife too but you know what? You don't get to concentrate only on the good. You get the bad too. One of these days you will need to escape your state of denial.