Gun control

[Are_grits_groceries]

About a month ago, my brother once more went off about guns saying “They want to take our guns.”
I snapped. I have talked to him about this before but I think Faux news and other people have planted controls in him and others. I yelled at him and told him nobody wanted his fucking guns.
They did not want his rifles or hand guns if he has any. They do not want those items used for sport or protection.

Why do you jackasses have to have automatic rifles, silencers, million bullet magazines? Why do you ignorant toads need to carry guns everywhere all the time so that nobody knows who is a danger. Guns on campus?

I told him the fucking wanted some goddam sense to prevail. They want people to go through basic checks before they get guns. Yes, criminals will always ge5 guns etc, etc but do we have to hand them out. There are others who don’t need access without other consideration.

AND I DON’T WANT EVERY IDEA THAT CROSSES THE NRA’S MIND TO BECOME LAW.

This is what I call the gun cloud. We live in this cloud the NRA has created in which guns have become accepted as the only way to solve anything. It’s guns 24/7.

I do believe in the 2nd Amendment. I just don’t interpret it like some. I do not believe it grants access to everything. I gre up with guns. The people I know had a lot of them. They knew how to use them and they respected their power. Woe be unto anyone who played with one or did not follow basic gun safety.

When I finished my brother quietly said, “That makes sense.”
I think half of SC heard me.

[HAB911]

1. I grew up with guns too, in GA

I think the current situation is the fault of the NRA. Not only have they instilled paranoia in gun nut's heads, they literally own congress. Although I have no direct info on Fox contribution to the situation, other than an experience with my brother who passed away last year. He was a Foxhead.

He was in the hospital for several weeks and I removed his pistol from his apartment during that time. He was getting sicker and sicker and I was beginning to feel uncomfortable entering his apartment while he was asleep, and also was worried about the visiting hospice nurses and aides. When he left the hospital and spent a couple of weeks in rehab he returned home. It took about a week before he realized his pistol was not on the nightstand, and he went ballistic. It was like a security blanket. After several days of arguing about it I relented and gave it back to him, and all was well. No rational argument would sway him.

[Lars39]

2. I want a buy-back melt-down program.

Fuck the NRA.

[cyclonefence]

3. I feel exactly as you do, but

I've given up. I won't talk about it, I won't argue about it, I won't write letters or make phone calls. Let them have their fucking guns. I can't protect myself or those I love against being shot, but it doesn't improve the quality of my life to spend any time or effort in trying to change this situation. These guys have won, and we lost. If the murder of elementary school children didn't cause us to change our gun laws, nothing will.