brygphilomena

Because gun control is often written by people who don't understand guns and by people who don't like guns. They also often are written and proposed without much input from gun owners. I'm not against gun control necessarily, but many attempts are just stupid legislation that would be ineffective in meeting it's goal of decreasing gun crimes.

So many gun control laws proposed are unenforceable such as storage laws.

Assault weapon bans use arbitrary features to distinguish them. And many of these are features that make them easier to control when shooting, which inherently means they are more dangerous now.

I really think there is a huge cultural issue around guns that needs to be addressed. Guns are thought of and treated as a solution to disagreements rather than something to protect life and liberty. A solution that is as equally valid is running away or compromising. These are made worse with rhetoric like "fuck around and find out" or " come try that here."

We also have media that has been purposely trying to divide the populace and make them afraid. Afraid when they leave their house all the time and afraid that someone is going to come into their house.

We have a lot of issues surrounding guns. And while gun control will be a feature of tackling it, so much more needs to be done to address it.

I would love to see everyone just start ignoring Trump and everything he says and just keeps doing their job.

That was my first thought. I want to find one that is smaller and distributed near me.

I might start with Crown Royal. At least the owning company is British (they also own my favorite American whiskey.)

As an American here, I think I might join them. Start buying more Canadian goods.

AOC for president.

Not the rich, but politicians, police leadership, and DAs.

They don't want to talk about how murders can go unsolved and crime unpunished in the cities they manage and protect.

They want to demonstrate that when they show up in force they are able to quickly solve a crime and bring a criminal to justice. One, so they can keep getting elected and two so that others don't think they can get away with committing crimes.

The DA will want to push a conviction so that they look tough on crime for their political campaigns. Often times withholding evidence that might harm their case.

I don't know if it happened in this case, but it has happened before where police will railroad a suspect to get a conviction even if there is clear evidence they couldn't have committed the crime.

What I wouldn't give to be able to say "Fuck You" to his face.

I think you misunderstood. I don't think shooting up a dealership was useful.

My issue is in the fear of making a martyr has been a big discourse which has lead to inaction. In the hundreds of political discussions I've been a part of leading up to the last election it became a recurring theme that people thought Trump couldn't even be arrested or held accountable for the many crimes he has committed.

Which lead us to a duality where either Trump was a martyr persecuted and having it stimulate his base or we let Trump continue to not experience any consequences and continue to rally his base unimpeded. It became a no-win situation at the outset when we started being afraid of making a martyr.

While we don't want to do anything that will unduly increase support of Trump or Elon. The use of words like martyr doesn't do much to help us. I agree we need to be smart about what we do, but I also think we need to be mindful of the language we use and the connotation that it has.

I hate this fear of making the opposite side a martyr. I've been hearing it for arresting and prosecuting Trump for so long. People making that claim basically let him face no consequences and look where that got us. As opposed to "making him a martyr" and who knows where we'd be. At the very least, they'd have had to regroup and change their game plan.

We can't keep being paralyzed into inaction by the fear of "making a martyr."

I'm saving this for inspiration. I'm seriously impressed and love it.

The Fifth Elephant by Terry Pratchett is just so damn good.

Not just him, everyone that can be demonstrated as being part of this. We don't just need to deal with Trump (we do) but there are a lot of other people involved too.