Have you noticed that nothing ever gets done about gun violence? ~

It's sadly funny how every time one of these mass shootings occurs, people get all worked up for about a week, wringing hands about gun laws and such, but nothing gets done or even initiated. Then other news comes along and they go back to sleep until the next one happens, and they get all worked up for about a week, and again, nothing gets done or initiated, and the pattern is repeated as other news comes along and they go back to sleep until the next one occurs, and so on, and so on, and so on. Now here we are, almost 10 years since the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting and 23 years since Columbine High School, to give two examples, and nothing has changed.

It all just gets filed under Sh*t Happens.

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Johnson212 · 61-69, M

That is cause guns are not violent people are, you want to do something about gun violence do something about the violent people behind them.

RedBaron · M

@Johnson212 Indeed.

MistyCee

@Johnson212 Lol. I agree. Guns are not the problem and we shouldn't punish them. Can we put them on reservations, safe from people that might corrupt them?

I apologize for the sarcasm, but we run in circles around this. People commit crimes and guns make it easier to commit them. They also can enable people to defend themselves from criminals.

I'm not going after you personally, but the guns don't kill, people do thing is really simplistic and kind of silly, imo.

We regulate the sale of explosives, biological and nuclear weapons, even though we want our government to have them in case someone else uses them.

I get that firearms are historically significant and that the 2nd Amendment is there for a number of reasons, but why can't we accept that some things, like anthrax spores or semi-automatic weapons shouldn't be regulated and "restricted" at least in terms of carrying, if not in terms of ownership.

Obviously, its about access, but stiffer penalties for gun realated crimes alone dont seem to help much.

Johnson212 · 61-69, M

@MistyCee It is not just historically, it was there in the bill of rights specifically so it could not be taken away, just like the right to remain silent, freedom of the press and the others, some of them are not for historical reference and some to protect rights in an ongoing fashion. It is our protection against tyranny be it from our own government turning into something against the people or another. I know it may sound preposterous to you but I bet there were people in Russia and pre war Germany who thought the same, that no way would their governments turn into what they turned into but they did. What I have a hard time accepting is that people would obsesses with going after guns instead of locking the school door.