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Gun Control Reform Activism

Eliot Rosewater

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1. The sooner gun owners understand gun manufacturers are neither their friends

Reply to YoungDemCA (Original post)

Tue Jun 20, 2017, 01:31 PM

Jun 2017

nor do they engage in gun ownership for the same reasons, the better.

In the bigger picture, guns are the problem. We all know it, and I suppose we also all know the problem is so bad, so big, nothing can be done about it.

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Gun manufacturers are like military contractors in that every day, they profit from mass murder. [View all] YoungDemCA Jun 2017 OP

The sooner gun owners understand gun manufacturers are neither their friends Eliot Rosewater Jun 2017 #1

"Nothing can be done about it" billh58 Jun 2017 #3

You are right, but ultimately the laws will be decided by who is elected to office. Eliot Rosewater Jun 2017 #4

I think something can be done, if not short-term, certainly long-term. Every decade we do nothing, Hoyt Jun 2017 #2