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.
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
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? 🧐