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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPeople always ask the question. "What will it take"
To have common sense gun control.
Well obviously not the massacre of 50 people.
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People always ask the question. "What will it take" (Original Post)
brettdale
Jun 2016
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Takket
(21,582 posts)1. when someone cuts down a whole classroom of toddlers
oh.............. nevermind
enough
(13,259 posts)2. Right, if that didn't do it, it's hard to think of anything that will.
It surely won't be 50 killed at a nightclub.
CincyDem
(6,366 posts)3. Common sense gun control will happen when...
...50%+1 of the population is directly impacted by gun violence. Until a voting majority of the country feels the deep personal family pain created by this insane worship of the precious, it will continue.
Remember, we had this same conversation after 20 6 year olds were victims and when it was over, nothing changed.
And we'll have this conversation again. It'll be 20 here, 14 there, 66 over there. I don't think there's really a number that allows people to see the light when their religion prevents them from doing so. Ultimately, gun worship will be the last religion standing.
liberal N proud
(60,338 posts)4. That's why I ask how maNY more.
But it still gets the same response that guns are not the problem.
TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)5. Only two things that I can think of,
but even then it may not be enough.
MFM008
(19,818 posts)6. I know its mind boggling
I think 30 years ago or less such events would have been unheard of.
Columbine taught us different.
( the UT Tower Charles Whitman shooting in 66 was the first
But Columbine began the 'casual' era of mass shootings.)
Dalziel3979
(72 posts)7. When the NRA boardroom gets a few thousand bullets unloaded into them.
TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)8. That's one of the two possibilities in post 5
that might bring change.
The other is if Capitol Hill gets the same thing.
Other than that, it's back to business as usual.