Twitter Wars

[Spider]

[spacemonkey]

[Spider]

[Kane]

You should be crying Spider. SM is the average American voter.

[Spider]

[John Galt]

And you forgot to mention the government neglected to enforce it's own laws and that's the only reason he was able to get a gun

[Spider]

So what else is new? It was small town Texas. He probably could have just dug around in the dumpsters at the Piggly Wiggly for a few minutes and found one. Maybe underneath the expired pork rind layer, but above the afterbirth stained prom dresses. Probably would have had a selection.

Ok. That was mean.

But still. Not hard to get one's hands on a gun.

[ToddStarnes]

Pretty slick move by the NRA though. Scare folks into buying a dozen guns each then argue the massive proliferation of guns makes gun control laws ineffective so why try to regulate it.

Savvy stuff there.

[Spider]

Can't really blame that on the NRA. Tell people they aren't going to be able to get *anything* anymore, and that thing will fly off the shelves. That phenomenon has been going on for years. Trouble with all the talk of banning guns is that it would require a constitutional amendment, which is basically an impossibility (for now), and so the talk really is repeatedly pumping sales, over and over again. They actually did carry out the AWB. People aren't going to forget that. They banned a type of gun that previously had been a trivial percentage of the market, but has now been catapulted to best-seller status.

Unless there is something realistic and effectual in the pipes, it's grandstanding. We can't even get bump stocks off the market now. They've gone from being a rarely seen, silly accessory to sell out stocking stuffer.

[exploited]

Of course you can blame the NRA. They have been a defining voice in the gun control debate for decades. They have created a distinct and frenzied gun culture that responds to mass shootings by buying whatever gun or modification was used. This is a learned response, not something any normal person with empathy has on their own.

Nobody sees 600 people get shot and decides to buy that equipment on the grounds it could be banned... Unless they have been trained to respond in that manner. It just goes against all sense of propriety, respect and social responsibility. In no other place is this phenomenon seen - and no other place has had such a successful gun lobby.

"Responsible gun owners" is an American myth. There is nothing responsible about 30% of the country owning more weapons than the rest of the civilian population of the world combined. It is the definition of irresponsible.