To your first point: Dat red herring. You know exactly what I meant, and your attempt to derail here is disingenuous in the extreme.

If more people had guns at this thing, all we’d have are more bullets fired—and likely more bodies. I was specifically getting at the idea that bringing a weapon into an area where you…

I REFUSE to believe that guns are NOT the issue here.

It’s not even about “rights.” This is about gun industry profits. The leaders of the NRA are all either gun company owners or heavily invested in them, and they don’t care how many people have to die for their bottom line. Every voter supporting them is a patsy, putting their own lives in danger just so a few rich old…

Guns aren’t banned anywhere in the US, you poor confused clown. Gun restrictions are not the same as a ban.

Go kill yourself you ignorant pile of shit

The south MAYBE. Not likely the NORTH. Here in Canada most of our illegal weapons are purchased legally in the US and smuggled North.  I assure you, YOUR country is the source of our illegal gun problem.

Sure, we could look at a single city that Conservatives like to use as thinly veiled racism like Venezuela, or your name and comment history. OR we can do the intelligent thing and reject this bad faith argument and instead look at the dozens upon dozens upon dozens of other modern, western, first world nations who do…

Meanwhile a straw will be harder to get than a gun.

Uh, they’re definitely not banned in Chicago. The handgun ban was overturned by the Supreme Court a decade ago, with the gun registry ending a few years later. Since then, gun violence has increased. 

You did enough to reply.

I’ve not said a word about my own political leanings, nor have I ever advocated for a total ban on firearms; there are roughly three firearms per person in the US—getting rid of them all would be a logistical impossibility.

Also, I come from a law enforcement and military family, and am married to a current US service…

“We’ve tried nothing and we’re all out of options”.

Yeah people who keep pointing to Chicago as a failure of gun laws conveniently forget or ignore that the areas around Chicago have some of the most lax gun laws in the country, which makes it easy as all hell to circumvent the gun laws in Chicago. :|

Infinite. After Sandy Hook, where small children were the victims, all hope was lost. Not only did the USA double-down on not doing anything, most people accused the victims of being fake and the parents were just actors/actresses hired for the “anti-gun agenda”. To this day the parents are still harassed everywhere…

That number came and gone. There’s been so many now that America seems to be used to them.

The absolute spinelessness—the cowardice—of attacking unarmed, unprepared persons, especially with a fucking firearm, in the name of grinding a personal axe has no equivalent in this life.

Violence is the final redoubt of the terminally inept. Fatal violence conducted at a distance (via firearm) against unarmed…

Twitter discourse is an oxymoron. 

Half of us reached that number a long time ago. For the other half, no number is high enough. 

I’m sick of reminders. Reminders that tell us “oh there’s nothing we could have done to stop this,” “this isn’t a guns issue,” fucking “thoughts and prayers.”

How many more stories like this until America realize guns has to be banned?