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In reply to the discussion: Should America work towards becoming a gun-free Country? [View all]marions ghost
(19,841 posts)Where I am there is every reason to fear gun violence any where you go. Also just the fear of it is damaging. I have relatives who teach in public schools. In addition to low pay and stressful working conditions, they worry about guns in schools. Always at the back of their minds, all the time. Statistics don't mean shit to people living with the very real possibility.
This ain't right. And gun lovers know it. But still they object to the most reasonable laws and regulation. So selfish. I think it's a power thing, of feeling better and more "in control" than people who don't use guns. Gun owners don't respect people who rightly worry about the damage that the every day death toll takes in this devolving primitive country. They scoff at those calling for reasonable controls. It's "us vs them" mentality. This division is very negative to our mutual future.
Sure, no gun control is just one of many symptoms of a dysfunctional society. If you like it fine. But I don't think you could imagine the ways in which this country would be different if we could really stop the needless killing and injury. Talk to doctors and staff in ERs--they'll tell you all about it. The constant stream of gun victims.