re: #264 A Mom Anon

You would have thought the sight of a bunch of 1st graders being shot to death would have moved things forward. If that doesn’t do it, the only other thing I can imagine that MIGHT do it would be for them to personally have someone’s brains splattered all over their expensive suits. And even then, I have my doubts.

I have friends who currently live in Wales (and have lived all over most of Europe their whole lives) that are totally freaked out by how stupid we are about this, health care and education. I honestly don’t know what to say back to them anymore because there’s nothing I can say.

I think it’s (analogously) a tectonic shift building force. I do think restrictions are coming. I think the intense effort to prevent them mean that a) it’ll take something more extreme to trigger the shift and b) the shifts will be even greater. (My near constant refrain: if you insist on all, do not be surprised when you get nothing.)

At this point I’m in agreement with a few other lizards. The most likely candidate is an armed insurrection over something similar to the Bundy incident.

There are a few gun owners, such as fellow lizard RWC, who are conscious of the problem caused by the extremist NRC and who push for a lesser but effective limit to prevent the major one. I honestly hope they’re successful. I fear otherwise.