With close to 400,000,000 guns in circulation amongst the general population (@1.2 guns per person) you'd think it would be the safest country in the world by some margin...Oh dear what a shame, rinse and repeat, they reap what they sow, feel sorry for the innocent victims but arming everyone makes it safer doesn’t it!
It’s possible you may have missed the tone I was trying to impart . . .
Notoriety. How they will be remembered — actually not how, just that they WILL be remembered. Revenge. “They’ll realize how badly they treated me, the monster they turned me into.”
No. I got your point. I was just making a point about the use of the word 'responsible' around gun culture in the USA. It's certainly a misused word.It’s possible you may have missed the tone I was trying to impart . . .
You were right, Clampett was Jed. Normal Geds (me for example) spell their name Ged.Thanks for that. I wasn't 100% sure of the spelling and obvs went the wrong way.
Would 'Jed' Clampett not have been christened with one of my all time favourite names - Jedediah?You were right, Clampett was Jed. Normal Geds (me for example) spell their name Ged.
I'd hazard a guess that a large proportion of the biggest defenders of the 2A couldn't tell you what it actually says. They're not building their belief system around it, but rather around an idea they've created that doesn't exist outside their own heads.I fear you are correct, and that there is no meaningful solution to this problem, but the real problem for you as a society is that the senseless killing is going to get progressively worse to the point where all the things that make America such a great place to live will diminish to a point of insignificance. I can’t see any other pathway.
And if 2A is truly immutable, then I can see no possible long term outcome, if that tragic path is traveled, other than some States eventually seceding from the Union. Some people, in some States (on each coast) will eventually say ‘enough is enough’.
I must confess I find the evangelical and slavish adherence to 2A to be nothing short of bizarre. Its wording is plainly anachronistic and incongruous with modern legislature. It expressly mentions regulation and yet its fiercest acolytes are inimical to any associated meaningful regulation. It seems an utterly absurd thing to build your belief system around, but as you say it’s not going anywhere, and any moves to do so would be met with widespread and violent civil disobedience.
Sadly I think it will eventually be the downfall of US society, and there’s nothing anyone can do about it, other than watch in horror.
They're nearly all religious as well though, I'd choose a pale imitation of hell over the real thing in that scenario.Yes there is that, although there are so many they just kind of merge into one. It's crazy because most end up dead themselves or incarcerated forever in Americas horrendous prison system. I'd definitely choose death to that option.
It amounts to the same thing though.I'd hazard a guess that a large proportion of the biggest defenders of the 2A couldn't tell you what it actually says. They're not building their belief system around it, but rather around an idea they've created that doesn't exist outside their own heads.
Same problem, but pointing out the wording of the 2A does no good when they're living by a completely different 2A.It amounts to the same thing though.