re: #485 Eclectic Cyborg

It’s like I said before: the Good guys with guns vs. Bad Guys with guns scenarios are all predicated on the fact that SOMEONE just HAS to have a gun!

Are we really so stupid to accept that we have become unable to resolve our disputes without people getting shot?

This is beyond fucked up.

No solution proposed by Americans involves reducing the number of guns. Americans, even supposedly reasonable ones, reasonable and responsible gun owners, do not and will not support any measure that might reduce the number of guns, or restrict the purchase of guns in any meaningful way. The majority of the American people might not like gun massacres, but they like having gun massacres more than they would like any reduction in the number of guns, or any significant impediment that would stop people easily acquiring guns. To the American consciousness, guns are more sacred than anything. Nothing is more important than keeping precious, precious guns.