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GoneOffShore

(17,340 posts) Fri Feb 16, 2018, 05:04 AM Feb 2018

A view on guns from a friend

We can't have restrictions on guns, yet we litmus test baby formula at the airport.

No tougher gun restrictions, yet at the airport:
1) I had to drain the liquid out of a 4 oz unopened jar of pickled ginger.
2) Because I was over-dressed, and did a light jog from car rental return to security screening, my body was 'hot' and the infrared photo showed excessive 'heat' near my armpits, groin, chest, neck and ankles. I was extensively patted down.
3) my ceramic pieces, the size of a bar of soap were scrutinized.
4) the couple in front of me had their baby-bottle liquid tested with some sort of litmus test.

Yet we can't protect our children from semi-automatic rifles? We can't provide security for public institutions? We can't make the age of purchasing a gun 21 years old? We can't demand background checks?

But we can do litmus tests on baby-formula?

Don't tell me this is just one psycho. So was the shoe-bomb guy. So was whoever posed a threat with a liquid explosive. It's an epidemic. It's just going to become more and more 'the norm'. Till what? All us 'good guys' are weaponized too? That's not the answer. How about a government buy-back program offering top dollar for all weapons turned in and sold, and new gun restrictions that start now?

When beating and raping your wife became illegal, it didn't stop men from beating and raping their wives...but over time the culture changes and people are held accountable. And then they are shamed and they know they are wrong, and ultimately some are punished. And then others. And eventually there is less beating and raping of wives. No, it doesn't immediately stop the problem. It takes generations. But we need to stop producing and selling weapons made to decimate multiple people at a time. And we need to get as many of these as possible off the streets and out of the trailers and suburbs. We need to scrutinize and monitor angry psycho young men that pose a threat. We don't need to take away the 2nd amendment, but we can make it tougher to acquire these weapons. Because we can't have life, liberty, happiness, AND free-range to mow people down with semi-automatic weapons.