Comment from post on guns.
We get the damn weapons of war off the streets. Have a rifle. Have two! But NO PRIVATE CITIZEN needs an AR-15, or magazines that can shoot 30 or 60 rounds before the need to reload. The reason legislators fear the NRA is not the money they may or may not accept from it. It is that the NRA has developed a very effective way to attack and remove from office (through the vote) any legislator not on board with its agenda.
Lisa I agree with you but how do we do it? That always seems to be the sticking point. Buy backs? Social pressure? Loudly reminding our congress representatives that the NRA is peopled by a tiny fraction of our population? Could the mainline churches help? Somehow? Heck one old geezer brought his pistol to church, talked about it, showed it to his friends after taking the proper precautions, put it away. Apparently he forgot to do SOMETHING. Someone else wanted to see the gun and nobody was too sure what happened next. Maybe he forgot to put the safety on. Maybe he put the magazine back in and chambered a bullet by mistake. Who knows.
Anyway the gun went off, Wounded him. Passed through him and hit his wheel chair bound wife. They both ended up in the hospital. Can you imagine what would have happened if there had been two or three "good citizens" with guns in the church. They could have had a free fire zone in that church. Now that I think about it. That may be the only way to get the ball rolling. Imagine the headlines. Gun goes off and several law abiding bystanders turn a church, mall, shopping center into the Killing Fields. If they have the guts to run the story
I do know what else might get the ball rolling. Get rid of Faux Noise. Kick out Limbaugh, Beck,Savage, Jones and the rest of the right wing wing nuts. Of course there goes the first amendment. Can we save ourselves without turning the constitution into a noose or shredding it?
