SO IF WE’RE GOING TO HAVE A “NATIONAL CONVERSATION ON GUNS,” HERE ARE SOME OPENERS:
Why do people who favor gun-control call people who disagree with them murderers or accomplices to murder? Is that constructive?
Would any of the various proposals have actually prevented the tragedy that is the supposed reason for them?
When you say you hope that this event will finally change the debate, do you really mean that you hope you can use emotionalism and blood-libel-bullying to get your way on political issues that were losers in the past?
If you’re a media member or politician, do you have armed security? Do you have a permit for a gun yourself? (I’m asking you Dianne Feinstein!) If so, what makes your life more valuable than other people’s?
Do you know the difference between an automatic weapon and a semi-automatic weapon? Do your public statements reflect that difference?
If guns cause murder, why have murder rates fallen as gun sales have skyrocketed?
Have you talked about “Fast and Furious?” Do you even know what it is? Do you care less when brown people die?
When you say that “we” need to change, how are you planning to change? Does your change involve any actual sacrifice on your part?
Let me know when you’re ready to talk about these things. We’ll have a conversation.
Are Hollywood actors yapping about gun control turning down roles in shoot-em-ups?
Here is some honest discussion. How about the fact that most of the gun violence occurs in minority urban areas? If you took all the violent gun stats from those areas out of the equation the USA would have about the same rate of gun violence as more white cultures like Germany and Canada. We’re constantly compared to them when it comes to gun violence and gun statistics. Yet the make up of their society is quite different than ours but, nobody talks about this. Canada, France, Germany do not have a big black and Hispanic population but we do especially when you combine let say the Mexican and black population. It’s a sizable minority and, those two groups are responsible for most of the gun violence in our country. Regardless of the white male mass shooter that happens every once in awhile most gun violence happens among young black males, followed by young Hispanic men in the US.