This is all so tragic, and I hope it's an eye-opener for many who falsely believe law-enforcement will be there to help because clearly that is not the case. We, as individuals, are the only ones capable of saving ourselves, and instead of that being the lesson, we instead have half a nation practically begging for that to be taken away from us. What a mess, and I believe it's intentional... let me grab my tin-foil hat.
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Maybe it's just that disarmament is the best way to combat gun violence, but don't worry, nobody's coming for anybody's guns in the good ole US of A. Everybody was whining about Obama coming for their guns and in 8 years nothing happened. Nothing Happened after Columbine, nothing happened after Sandy Hook and nothing happened after Vegas. You may get lucky now after Stoneman and some sensible gun regulation may get passed... but as long as the US government is owned by corporations, I wouldn't hold my breath either.
corporations are the ones protecting our gun rights? thank God
Not really. It takes a 10 minute research spell to understand corporate corruption does little else but undermine democracy, the free market and people's rights. Letting people on the terrorist watch list buy weapons is good for business for example. After mass shootings gun sales go up, so it's good business for example. The cost? Human lives. But hey, what's a life compared to maximizing profits, right?
But you said the gun industry was the ones protecting our civil rights so you seem to be contradicting yourself but in less than 10 minutes I found the gun industry was not even in the top 20 for lobbying
https://www.statista.com/statistics/257364/top-lobbying-industries-in-the-us/
Look who is, the industry whose products are required to carry labels that say "may cause suicidal thoughts or actions" that the shooter was using.
Do you imagine such people make up a significant portion of gun buyers? Let me get this right, you want to use secret lists of innocent people to strip them of their basic civil rights without due process? Leftists used to oppose secret lists of innocent Americans until they decided that they liked that idea a lot and the only problem was that not enough liberty was being stripped from innocent, mostly Muslim, citizens and residents.
Lets look at how you get on their secret lists, by saying or writing the wrong things, associating with the wrong people, or going to the wrong mosque, or just having the wrong name right?
On other words you get on the secret list of innocent people target to have their basic liberties stripped without due process by exercising your first amendment rights.
What you want would invalidate the 1st, 2nd, 5th and 14th amendment rights that Americans enjoy and you are saying the corporations who fight that are bad?
But the media industry, who is on that list, fighting against civil rights, is good?
That's not true, there are mass shootings all the time and no one cares, gun sales go up when the media and politicians choose a mass shooting that involves white people and legal guns and then use that to go on a push for more gun control. Pushes for more gun control spur gun sales, not mass shootings. Nobody bought a gun because of the Mattapan Massacre did they?
Legal guns don't cost lives, the gun industry is not really that profitable. Guns being legal allows people to save their lives.