Dan MorenIt is, simply put, insane that we are at a place in this country where I just cannot remember all the mass shootings. What? These should be so rare that they are all emblazoned in our memory. But now they blur together in a horrific haze.
Christopher Phin@dmoren (This is a post expressing solidarity with your bafflement, not a ‘we’re better than you,’ but:) that’s Scotland. Dunblane happened, and that was the inflection point. Not saying we haven’t had trouble with guns since, but yes; the rational response is “fuck no”.
@chrisphin You would have thought we had one at least twenty years ago, but it turns out building our country on a document that includes the right to bear arms was a colossal mistake.
@dmoren As I’ve gotten older I have certainly appreciated some of the nuance in the second amendment, but I sometimes worry that this is a bad thing, that it complicates the “fuck no, guns are bad” perspective. Because those nuances, by and large, are not deployed in good faith.
@chrisphin 250-year-old nuance may have been lost along the way. Honestly, it's not worth it. If I could trade it for even a fraction of the lives lost, it'd be a no brainer.
Peter Cohen@chrisphin @dmoren Bad faith arguments propelled the NRA from a conservation-focused hunters club to the public face of the gun industry. Gun violence has always been a part of American life, but the Originalist nonsense around 2A belies the fact that it only got insane within the span of our lifetimes as a result of that pivot.
Kevin Hoctor@KevinHoctor @chrisphin @dmoren Clinton signed the Assault Weapons Ban in 94 and it helped, at least in the case of mass shootings. But that sunset in 04 and the statistics speak for themselves.
coolbugfacts123@KevinHoctor @flargh @chrisphin @dmoren
Reagan passed some of the first gun control bills, to disarm the Black Panthers.
@rhinoceraptor @KevinHoctor @chrisphin @dmoren Yeah, back when he was Gov. Reagan. Gun control laws the NRA supported. Gee, I wonder why? 🧐
@dmoren @chrisphin The law of unintended consequences supercedes the Constitution.