It Appears That There Is NO Level Of Violence To Cause The GOP To Act To Control Guns.

[TheMastersNemesis]

GOP is simply not interested in controlling guns. And it probably never will be interested either. So the rest of us probably need to get over it. Their attitude is that gun violence is an inevitable result of doing business. You have a better chance changing a leopard's spots than changing their hearts. That is if they have one.

And they have plenty of voters supporting them. The fact that the GOP, NRA & RW hate machine keeps telling American that EVERYONE must have a gun really. Just say to a GOPPER - "gun control" "liberal", "feminist", "raise taxes", "abortion", "gay rights", et al. It sends them into a red faced rage.

Hell the Lt. Gov in Tennesse is telling Christians to get armed up. They are under attack. The Moslems are coming. Sand bag the churches.

Every day we seem to get deeper into looney tune land on this issue.

[jaysunb]

1. Civil Wars happen. n/t

[pipoman]

2. Not deeper in anything

Against the ceiling...walking the line...Case law has pretty completely defined what the feds can and cannot do..there are a few tweaks...most of the suggestions and ideas on threads here are asked and answered and will not. .cannot happen.

[tblue]

3. So do we just give up?

If we don't try, no one will.

[TDale313]

4. If Sandy Hook couldn't change the political realities on this...

I fear nothing will. Not that we shouldn't continue to try, but I don't think anymore that we'll have that "enough" moment as a country. Or rather, we have... But our Representatives aren't representing us.

[msongs]

5. its not the repubs, it's the gun owners of america who are responsible for this nt

[Skittles]

6. CORRECT

THEIR FEAR AND IGNORANCE TRUMPS ALL

[YabaDabaNoDinoNo]

7. Of course not we are dealing with 'people' who live in a constent state of fear

fear of non whites, fear of gays, fear of non christians, fear of the educated, fear of the government, fear of women, the list goes on and on.

They are sitting home rubbing their guns talking to them. Think Gollum and the ring, same thing but with guns. Same thing happens to the gun owners too.

Reagan empties out the mental hospitals, GOP membership and gun ownership INCREASES, militant christianity becomes main stream in the USA, NRA actively lobbies against all gun laws, mass shooting become more common.

Coincidence, I don't think so.

[Orrex]

8. A fair number of DUers feel exactly the same way

Regardless of the atrocity at the school, church, workplace or public area, the first response is to insist that sensible gun regulation is a non-starter.

If it were simply a matter of battling the idiot GOP, it wouldn't be so frustrating.

[Recursion]

9. Levels of violence have been constantly dropping for decades

I don't think that's the right argument to make, because the GOP will point to the unprecedented drop in violent crime during Clinton's term and say "nothing is necessary".