re: #123 Renaissance_Man

There was an article recently by one of the many identical forgettables on the right about how the point of all of this is to make it socially unacceptable to be a gun owner.

I’m in the minority on this, but I certainly hope so. I think that nothing short of social pressure and shame will work on America’s cult of human sacrifice. Laws are nice and necessary, but gun fetishists feel no shame about worshipping at the altar of human sacrifice. They feel no shame about rushing to worship more every time there’s a mass sacrifice. They feel no shame about publicly blaming victims for being murdered.

They need to. And ordinary Americans need to as well, to put that pressure on all of us. And while shame for being a gun owner is too much, people definitely need to feel shame and social embarrassment at being a gun fetishist. Carrying a weapon in public needs to be as repulsive as lighting up a cigarette in a day care centre.

So much of the current media climate is about excusing white people from feeling shame for anything. Unless and until that changes, improving American society, whether that involves sacrificing less people or electing less dictators, is going to be nigh impossible.

Precisely. When I think of repealing the second amendment, I think of that as the culmination of decades of showing the NRA/GOP death cult for what it is significantly changing public perceptions of this issue. Without success in that PR enterprise, any attempt at a repeal of the second amendment is simply doomed.