We do not need any gun control. We simply need a time machine.

[guillaumeb]

After the latest mass killing, the corporate media is, of course, obsessed with the possible motivation(s) of the killer. "Why did he do it is the constant theme", and the "why" question generally marks the limits of the questioning by the corporate media celebrities who pass for serious reporters and commenters.

And the NRA is, of course, conspicuous by their silence, as they wait for the echoes of the gunfire to quiet and they wait for the latest group of victims to be literally buried and forgotten by a media that has the attention span of a fruit fly.

Some will suggest that, of course we cannot ban guns, or regulate them in any meaningful way, thus framing and limiting the debate to NRA approved limits.

So we need to think out of the box, in a way that satisfies the merchants of death, and the NRA, the unofficial apologists and enablers for the merchants of death.

We need......................a time machine. That way, when the next massacre happens, the time police can enter the machine, armed with the knowledge of who did the killing, and go back and stop the future killer.

NOTE: This is an attempt at very dark humor on a subject that is the antithesis of a fit subject for humor, but in a country where serious discussion of a national plague is almost never admitted or entertained on a national stage, US citizens should expect these gun massacres to increase in frequency.

[htuttle]

1. Better idea: go back to the Revolutionary War

Bring along a couple of M16's and a lot of ammo.

Wipe out an entire company of British soldiers in about 10 minutes.

Explain to Ben Franklin that you're from the future.

Let the founding fathers contemplate what they just saw as they write the Bill of Rights.

[misanthrope]

4. +100

Capital idea

[former9thward]

5. And they would have made the 2A much stronger with that in mind.

The Revolution was just barely won by the colonial armies who brought their own personal weapons to battles over seven long years.

[guillaumeb]

6. First, the small matter of inventing the time machine. eom

[madinmaryland]

9. What if the British brought a few M16 along and wiped out the insurrection.

Alternate History is interesting. We would still be under British rule. There would have been no constitution, bill of rights, and very few gun related homicides.

[LonePirate]

2. If we had a time machine, we should take it to the late 1700s and prevent the 2A from being written.

[former9thward]

7. And then the Bristish would have won the War of 1812 rather easily.

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Since it was the British who originally introduced slavery into the colonies they would have then reinforced the institution in their new colony.

[guillaumeb]

8. Or explain to the founders about the necessity of writing so a primary school student could

understand.

[Motley13]

3. Damn, if only someone in the crowd had had a gun

[guillaumeb]

10. A "good person" with a gun?

If only President Obama had not totally disarmed patriotic Americans when he was President.

[Spider Jerusalem]

11. Better use of a time machine would be to go back to the late 1780's and kill the Second Amendment

[guillaumeb]

12. But would that also kill the militia?

The excuse for that Amendment? Given the massive US armed forces, one could argue that a militia is unneeded.

[Spider Jerusalem]

13. The "militia" these days is the National Guard

the "militia" in the 18th century sense is an irrelevant anachronism.