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Tim Walz says he's 'sick and tired' of prayers after Georgia school shooting
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I think everyone sick of being in this time loop of the same result happening over and over. Action is the only solution.
But the action is "ban guns" and the American populace does not want that.
Majority in U.S. Continues to Favor Stricter Gun Laws - Gallup.com
CNN Poll: Most Americans want stricter gun control, but they’re divided on whether guns make public places safer
Polls show a solid majority of Americans want gun control | Vox
Most Americans support these 4 types of gun legislation, poll says
Would be a lot more helpful to name politicians who are against gun control than the 'American Populace" who continues to be shot everyday.
TBF, American gun manufacturers don't want it because that would slow sales and line might not go up
I also think this. But now that I've thought it, what's the next step?
Restrictive gun laws and ban shit. Fuck 2A and all the assholes screaming about them. If people are consistently proving they are not responsible enough for what the constitution affords them, fuck the constitution. It needs revising.
I don't have the power to do this. Only the politicians owned and operated by the gun lobby have this power, and they've been moving us in reverse.
I don't think shoving my dick through a hole in the 2nd Amendment is going to do anything to reduce gun crime. I certainly don't think trying to shove my dick into a guy screaming about 2A rights is going to fix things.
It is very difficult to redefine the Constitution via legal channels. Especially if you're just some angry internet guy. You'd need enormous sums of money, a willing media, and a political class that responds to social pressure.
And even when guys like Mike Bloomberg enjoyed most of that, they failed to achieve more than local reforms thanks to the aggressive partisan pushback from conservatives in his old party.
Until a politician grows a pair nothing is going to change. I hear what you're saying outside of the tongue in cheek and it's such a mess. America has systemic issues which are by and large a result of what the system was designed to do.
Trump took a bullet wound to the ear and he's still saying the same old stupid bullshit.
I don't think this is a question of growing a pair. The economic and social incentives to stay the course are simply overwhelming.
And systems like this are resilient, intransigent, and self-perpetuating.
The slavish devotion to our gun policy is like a contagious mental illness.