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AndyS

(14,559 posts)
18. If your best friend is a Republican supreme court and a money grubbing
Tue Dec 28, 2021, 07:52 PM
Dec 2021

industry perhaps you should re-evaluate your culture and values.

Yes there have been 'tipping points' before. Each one gets a bit stronger. It took 20 years for the NRA and Gun industry to raise the death rate to world wide historical levels. It fell to just over 4/100,000 after the first control movement (the AWB and the Brady campaign) but since 2014 it's been climbing again. It's at 8/100,000 this year and in another two will be past the high point of 10/100,000 unless we make progress on curbing gun access.

As far as the court goes, in the last year the number of Biden appointees has stacked the lower court in a liberal direction. Even without court reform it won't be long before it filters up and Gunners will lose their support base of right wing justices.

In any case it will be a long haul unless the gunners have their wet dream come true and they take up arms in a second civil war in which case you can kiss the 2nd ga'bye and we will come for the guns. I don't want that, it would mean the death of few hundred thousand people but it would end the insanity of gundom once and for all.

Pull your head out and look around. The times they are a changin'.

crickets AndyS Dec 2021 #1
If voting rights can't get passed... LiberatedUSA Dec 2021 #2
Yeah so lets just ignore the 40,000 or so people guns take from us AndyS Dec 2021 #3
Oh Andy, I just gave ya a statement of fact. LiberatedUSA Dec 2021 #4
If that's the way you interpreted my response to your AndyS Dec 2021 #5
Gun control supporters are pretty irrelevant as well hack89 Dec 2021 #6
7 out of 8 ain't bad . . . AndyS Dec 2021 #7
But don't you need national legislation to solve gun violence? hack89 Dec 2021 #8
One step at a time. We are following the Gunner model AndyS Dec 2021 #9
So you are thinking very long term? hack89 Dec 2021 #10
All of them . . . AndyS Dec 2021 #11
Happy to see you are retaining your sense of humor hack89 Dec 2021 #12
Back atcha'. AndyS Dec 2021 #13
Not in my lifetime fortunately hack89 Dec 2021 #14
I don't know which is more sad, AndyS Dec 2021 #15
Except there have been "tipping points" every year hack89 Dec 2021 #16
If your best friend is a Republican supreme court and a money grubbing AndyS Dec 2021 #18
Ok. Nt hack89 Dec 2021 #19
Well, Democrats have abdicated protecting my civil right to bear arms krispos42 Dec 2021 #22
You are either completely misreading the indicators . . . Surf Fishing Guru Dec 2021 #17
Looks like you did a bad copy-paste of photo captions krispos42 Dec 2021 #21
Except now the Republicans control the governor's seat and the House of Delegates krispos42 Dec 2021 #20
Point of fact melm00se Jan 2022 #23
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