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Originally Posted by Sarah_W
How can you draw such conclusions? It is absolutely ridiculous to believe and suggest that law abiding gun owners are not concerned with murder victims. In my opinion, it is quite the opposite. I believe it is actually those who are ignorant of firearm ownership and safety that are the root cause of murder in our country. DA's in major blue cities not prosecuting crimes. Violent criminals being released to terrorize our cities. There is at least one mass shooting every single month in Chicago and the authorities there do nothing about it. The same can be said for Los Angeles, St. Louis, Baltimore, to name a few. These are issues that law abiding gun owners discuss at length but do not have the voting numbers to override the corrupt people elected to office in these cities.
I've offered solutions to school shootings at the most common response from our friends left of center is "we shouldn't have to send our kids to a "prison".". There are 63,000 schools in the U.S. If everyone did what a high school in Indiana did, there would be no more mass school shootings. Anyone who would like to see their solution go on YouTube and look for "Inside The Safest School in America". It cost $400K to retrofit that school. That equates to $20 billion to retrofit every school in America. That is how you stop mass shootings in school. That is half what we just sent to Ukraine for their "needs". The solution lies with our elected leaders so tell your Representative to support such an effort.
The problem is not Baby Boomers. They are not the killers. You're looking at the wrong generation.
The NRA is 5 million law abiding gun enthusiasts. Without people like me there is no NRA. The majority work done by the NRA revolves around gun safety programs and education. I'd love to hear what you think it is. Additionally, there are dozens of other non-profit gun rights organizations.
Point out the marketing techniques that you find so disturbing. There are no commercials on television advertising guns or ammo. They market in gun magazines and trade shows.
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Absolutely.
Law-abiding gun owners are not the problem. The liberals are not the problem either.
The NRA is borderline. It used to be about gun owners, I believe it has changed a lot in the last decade, and it is now more of a mouthpiece for the gun manufacturers. But, I could be wrong.
The problem is the extremists and the criminals.
Meantime we can be assured if we count on Congress to fix things, things will only get worse.
The SOLUTION is for "normal" law-abiding citizens to take action, find a solution we can live with, and save the next batch of children that will be murdered soon - despite everyone's "thoughts and prayers"