The mass shooting last month in Maine — perpetrated by an Army reservist allowed to keep his guns reportedly bought days before he underwent psychiatric evaluations due to his erratic behavio…
You use this word correlation but I don’t think it means what you think it means. What kind of direct correlation is there between the NRA and school shootings? Please give specific examples of NRA funded or trained shooters.
I’ve just spelled out the correlation, it’s not my fault you’re incapable or unwilling to read.
Let me dumb it down so that everyone can understand:
school shooter goes on a rampage with an easily acquired gun.
understandable national outrage occurs, talks about new gun laws start taking place
right wing organisations, most prominently the NRA, lobby against these laws and try to turn public attention against them through barefaced lies (eg: blame on videogames, media, and espousal of a bunch of theories that are either proven bunk such as ‘good guy with a gun’ or plain don’t apply (‘good guy with a gun’ in a school setting, where the good guy with a gun simply isn’t there, are too few in number and skills to contain the situation, or would simply be mistaken for a hostile actor by other good guys with guns.))
proposed fixes get delayed or scrapped
thoughts and prayers but no real action
go to step 1 and repeat thousands of times over.
Most other countries got off this shitshow ride the first or second time this happened. The US is the only first world country where this still happens, because they don’t put in gun control, and literal murder machines can be bought as easily as a games console.
There are many standing laws on the books that violate the 2A. Fortunately there have been a number of cases rolling back these infringements on our collective rights.
And the result is more bloodshed. How is that fortunate?
Go back and read the 2A again. All of it. Notice something peculiar? The 2A explicitly states that it exists in light of the fact that armed individuals were a necessity for national security. It was written back when the US didn’t have a standing military or police force. Now that it does, there’s a pretty strong argument that the 2A, as written, should no longer apply.
I’ve just spelled out the correlation, it’s not my fault you’re incapable or unwilling to read.
Let me dumb it down so that everyone can understand:
school shooter goes on a rampage with an easily acquired gun.
understandable national outrage occurs, talks about new gun laws start taking place
right wing organisations, most prominently the NRA, lobby against these laws and try to turn public attention against them through barefaced lies (eg: blame on videogames, media, and espousal of a bunch of theories that are either proven bunk such as ‘good guy with a gun’ or plain don’t apply (‘good guy with a gun’ in a school setting, where the good guy with a gun simply isn’t there, are too few in number and skills to contain the situation, or would simply be mistaken for a hostile actor by other good guys with guns.))
proposed fixes get delayed or scrapped
thoughts and prayers but no real action
go to step 1 and repeat thousands of times over.
Most other countries got off this shitshow ride the first or second time this happened. The US is the only first world country where this still happens, because they don’t put in gun control, and literal murder machines can be bought as easily as a games console.
And the result is more bloodshed. How is that fortunate?
Go back and read the 2A again. All of it. Notice something peculiar? The 2A explicitly states that it exists in light of the fact that armed individuals were a necessity for national security. It was written back when the US didn’t have a standing military or police force. Now that it does, there’s a pretty strong argument that the 2A, as written, should no longer apply.