Per recent conversations at least? With the current gun control bills and the recent mass shootings. (Link 2) My conservative friends have been posting all kinds of anti-gun control posts. (see image below)
I limited my comments to mostly the following:
- What is your concern about ensuring that all gun transactions require a background ? If it is easy for you to buy a used gun, it is easy for criminals, killers and sociopaths to do the same.
- Since new gun sales are highly regulated and monitored, where do you think criminals, killers and sociopaths buy their guns?
- A knife / shank is NOT a gun is NOT a semi-automatic rifle. If you think they are, are you okay trying to kill prairie dogs or a grizzly bear with a knife?
- If someone has a history of drunk driving or is obviously over the limit, would you let him keep his car keys? And yet the anti-gun control folks are against red flag laws, that take weapons away from people that a court has deemed to be a risk to himself, his family or the public.
Needless to say that we got no where, but some of comments were interesting. Like the following.
"Well I am here if you ever choose to answer simple questions rather than avoid them... 😮 Where do you think criminals get their guns? How is holding people responsible for keeping their gun registered, secure and not sold to a criminal "punishing" them? How is removing the guns from the homes of high risk citizens a bad thing? (ie red flag laws)" John/ G2A
"They get them from someone who has does not care about anyone's life others than theirs. So again who are you blaming for the guns that a criminal gets. I curious what your answer is." Friend
"I am blaming people who promote the easy recordless transfer of guns from registered back ground checked owners to non-background checked parties. So I guess people like yourself. Remember, if it is easy for you to get a second hand gun from a private seller. It is also easy for the criminals and insane to get them. Which brings us back to how do we make it harder for criminals and the disturbed to get weapons?" G2A / John
I hope the current bills can make it through the Senate. And I wish the IDIOTs on the Left would stop talking about banning or seizing AR15's... It is NOT helping.
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Something I have noticed is how a lot of people want to normalize death from the virus the same way they want to normalize death from guns. Instead of eliminating the problem, they want to make it chronic, something which we have learned to live. The rhetoric is the same. Sure we are against death, but not at the cost of our freedom. My right to do or not to do something prevails over your right not to be killed by my behavior.
--Hiram
It is unlikely to help since humans are really good at rationalizing their contributing to the unnecessary deaths of other, but that is why I focused my comments on.
"If it is easy for you to get semi-automatic weapons.
It is easy for criminals and the insane to do the same."
Despite my objections to psychologizing political issues, I do think this reflects a natural psybhological tendency. We have a tendency to reject safety measures, and this is true, IMO, across the board. We resist gun safety measures for the same underlying reason we resist hockey helmets and HPV vaccinations. It is a common theme. Even if we overcome it, is still there. I got the vaccines, in this case, but not without some reluctance.
--Hiram
I think it is challenging enough to get people to be safe with their own health...
It is even harder for them to do something to protect others.
It's very often framed as a tradeoff between freedom and security. Withe respect to gun issues, the freedom takes on the second amendment as a protection, but the same impulse is there when the issue is viruses or seatbelts.
--Hiram
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