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In reply to the discussion: Visa urged to to sever links with National Rifle Association [View all]BrotherIvan
(9,126 posts)States are making laws so that is ILLEGAL. It is illegal to text while driving. One must use a hands free device while talking on the phone in CA and in some places it's illegal to use your device at all. And yet, gunners resist any and all laws against easy access to guns. The cognitive dissonance from your group is stunning.
THE DEATHS BY GUNS ARE PREVENTABLE BY CURBING THE EASY ACCESS TO GUNS. Get it? When things harm people, such as drunk driving, we make laws against them. The cost and severity for DUI has gone up exponentially in my lifetime. As a teenager, driving after a couple of drinks was no big deal. Now, most of the people I know wouldn't consider getting behind the wheel and make other arrangements. Are there still deaths from drunk driving? Yes. But are we as a society trying to do something about it, including education? Yes.
That is what we MUST do. Other countries have had some response to mass murders and it has worked. And yet, all pro gun people will do is argue against ANY regulation and make all discussion go in circles so sane people tire and go away. But now the appalling deaths have made it easier to keep fighting. Downplaying preventable deaths does nothing for your cause.