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In reply to the discussion: Customer shoots bank robber in Warren [View all]guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)Money is the key. Money persuades the 535 people that would be necessary for sensible gun control and regulation.
As to necessity, why is it that only in the US is it so necessary that every citizen be armed?
Something in the DNA?
Something in the water?
Or something else? Perhaps the fact that the US spends more on war than all other countries combined?
Perhaps the fact, so far avoided by you, that selling weapons is a very profitable business?
Perhaps the fact, again avoided by you, that fear motivates?
How wonderful that the NRA supports to some small degree the restriction on possessing handguns by the violent felons and the mentally ill. Except of course the huge loopholes governing gun sales at open sell gun affairs that allows anyone, violent felon, mentally ill or not, to buy whatever they want free from all scrutiny.
Plus these "isolated incidents", as gun enthusiasts like to refer to them, wherein a mentally ill person or violent felon just happens to have a gun are happening so frequently that the NRA talking point/fiction of keeping guns out of the wrong hands is exposed as the obvious lie that it is. Exposed except for those who want or need to believe it.