Maine Mass Shooting

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(10-27-2023, 04:41 PM)Nately120 Wrote: I personally just find society and people's mindsets the most interesting aspect of all of this.  I assume this is just down to people refusing (or it being way too unpleasant) to actually look at a situation and analyze it fairly. But the same political spectrum that will tell me it is unfair that they should be expected to work to pay for some worthless person on welfare will tacitly accept that they themselves or their wife or even children might have to die so a worthless weirdo who lives in his mom's basement and is addicted to stepsister porn is free to own a thousand machine guns.

Right wrong or otherwise, it intrigues. From the cynical marketing side of it if you want people to accept gun control frame it as it being unfair that people like YOU have to sacrifice so people like THEM can reap the benefits.  That's what gets people pissed off and demanding action.

It's a very emotionally charged topic no doubt, much like anything that falls into the P&R realm. And it's also a topic that is incredibly complex. It isn't solely a gun problem. It's a culture problem. It's a problem with our country's glorification and fantasization of violence. It's a mental health problem. It's a broken-family problem. It's a drug problem. There are myriad factors that contribute to it, none of which are easy to solve or remediate. 

And in the middle of it all we have a country that, on the whole, is freaking terrible at recognizing, admitting and correcting our own mistakes. Look no further than the "But the second amendment!" argument. What if they got it wrong in 1791? And even if they got it right in 1791, does the same apply to 2023?  What if the language of our entire constitution is in dire need of an updating/modernization?

But that's all too difficult to collectively consider. So here we are again, until the next one. Hope nobody's number comes up.