Roughly 107 million Americans own firearms. I would wager there ARE tens of millions of legal gun owning Americans that SHOULD be disarmed. Mentally Ill, Rage-a-holics, and just stupid fucking jackasses that can't properly use, store and secure their weapons and ordinance. How many thousands of youtube gun videos are there of dipshits that have no fucking business owning a weapon? If you don't have the impulse control to avoid a fistfight at a stoplight, you shouldn't have a gun. If your 10 year old kid can take one of your guns to school for show and tell, you should never be allowed to own a weapon again. 85-90% of gun owners are wonderful sensible people that act responsibly. And then there are the others. The problem is not that Democrats want to disarm those particular clowns. The problem is that it can't be done with legislation alone. Shit has to also be ruthlessly enforced.
My wife is Scottish. She was AT Dunblane Primary during the Dunblane massacre.
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She was also, quite literally, walking to Amanda Colley's house from ours (we lived right down the street and they were close friends) when her estranged husband (Terry Colley Jr) sauntered in, killed Amanda, one her friends that was there, and tried to kill everyone else that was there. My wife literally ran home when she heard the shots. If she had arrived just minutes later, she would have been in the house and who knows what would have happened.
These murders happened IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING a court appearance where Mr Colley had to appear for
VIOLATING AN EXISTING STALKING ORDER. Mr Colley murdered those people with his legally owned firearms. 2 were left at the crime scene. 2 were found in the car ( one of which was an AR-15 style rifle) when they found him. And there were 16 guns inside the home where Colley was living with his father. All legally obtained. That's a lot of fucking hardware for a man in that situation wouldn't you say? And the hearing he left before murdering the people, he had been 'instructed' to 'surrender' his firearms. He 'said he would'.
After this, there was also a gun related suicide in my immediate family. Not my wife or children thankfully.
Now--without getting into the weeds too much with 2A, I'd just point out that is an AWFUL FUCKING LOT of gun related trauma for my wife who has enjoyed a comfortable middle class life from birth and never been near guns in her life. Stories like this are behind a lot of the passion for gun control and restraint. 18K gun murders in the US every year and another 30K blowing their heads off via suicide every year are going to add up to a lot of people feeling a certain kind of way over time. More Americans have been murdered by guns since 1975 than were killed in WW2.
If people were not getting murdered with guns all the time and blowing their fucking brains out with guns all the time, few people would give a rats ass about gun ownership. So Yeah- while I support the underlying principle of 2A- I'd say a fuckton more needs to be done.
The phrase 'one bad apple can spoil the bunch' is quite literally true. A single rotten apple will release ethylene gas, which accelerates rotting in nearby fruits, releasing even more gas, and so on. It is WAY PAST TIME for the 'good apple' gun owners, hiding like fucking pussies behind the 2A, to recognize the annual price we are paying for this freedom is too fucking high, and get on board with some reasonable solutions.