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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSo the question is raised again: Why?!!?
WHY do we let INDUSTRIAL-STRENGTH KILLING MACHINES loose in our land?!?!? WHY?!!?
BainsBane
(53,038 posts)for the gun industry. In America, profits are more important than human life. Then there is the fact that gun extremists insist their "rights trump your dead," meaning who dies is inconsequential as long as they have any and every weapon they feel like.
yesphan
(1,588 posts)maxsolomon
(33,345 posts)because it was back in the 1780s.
and the the courts have broadened the defninition of a militia to basically anyone, not that the right is even dependent on militia membership.
but you CAN limit access to automatic weapons. that's apparently fine.
but NO FURTHER. that's the line in the sand. of freedom. and gun sales.
so just lie back and accept it - there will be a mass shooting on the order of 1 every 3 weeks, every year, for your entire life.
because America.