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In reply to the discussion: Can a country with open borders EVER ban guns? [View all]SheilaT
(23,156 posts)Every time I suggest complete and total confiscation of guns, people are oddly opposed. The hunters in particular. WE ARE PEACEFUL HUNTERS, the assure me, and bemoan what gun confiscation will do to their hunting.
And here's what I propose (and have for several years now): if you're a hunter, the gun(s) you use for hunting will be stored in a central facility, and you check them, and the bullets out when hunting season starts and you have the appropriate licenses. Why in the world would you need the guns when it's not hunting season?
What so much enrages me on this topic is the complete denial that it's the fucking guns that are at issue. And the pious claims that we can't possibly change anything, second amendment and all. I'm so totally pissed off that the gun apologists apparently consider guns vastly more important than any one person's right to remain alive, that I'm somewhat incoherent on this topic.
If we had some sort of army go door to door and take away every single gun, the lives saved would be totally worth it. And I've had it with the claims that guns somehow save lives, or that gun owners discourage intruders at rates that make up for the thirty or so who are killed each and every day by a gun in this country.
I sincerely wish that every single one of the apologists would suffer the consequences of their defense of guns. Let your two year old kill your five year old. Is that okay? Let your cousin be murdered by her estranged spouse. No problem, right? Let your fourteen year old brother commit suicide with a gun. No problem there, yes?
Me? I'm totally outraged at the gun violence in this country. Worse yet, there's usually a concentration on those killed. What about the vastly larger numbers who are simply wounded? Maimed? Crippled? Don't they matter at all?
And I personally have never been affected by gun violence. I sincerely hope I never will be.