22 Feb 2023 9:05 pm
That's because the guns aren't the problem... the degradation of society is.maineman » 22 Feb 2023, 9:32 pm » wrote: ↑ well UBC's and Red Flag laws are a small step.... but I don't really remember our country being this violent, this shattered, before. I lived through the entire Selma/fredom riders/civil rights struggle.... I lived through the entire Vietnam war and the giant rips it caused in our country's soul.... but it never was this BLOODY before... and it just seems that, for supporters of the 2nd Amendment, there is no room for compromise... it's like they don't CARE how bloody America gets as long as they get to bear whatever arms they want to, even if their freedom to be armed gives an exploding number of criminals and whack jobs who seem hell bent on killing more and more Americans each and every year the arms they need to commit that carnage. Seriously.. more mass shootings in 2023 than DAYS in 2023. What. The. ****.
Firearms have been a part of this Country's culture since it's founding, but have only become a major problem in the last few decades.
When I was in High School, it was not uncommon at all to see gun racks with shotguns and rifles in them in several pickup trucks in the parking lot during school, and no one was ever shot or even threatened with one either.
The only thing that's changed between then and now, is the social environment.
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