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Originally Posted by ThirdOfFive
Let's be honest. This is about GUNS, not kids. We have elected senators and representatives who represent us. Using media to try to force an issue via over-the-top emotion instead of the legislative system is doing no one any favors, least of all our kids.
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Hmm, well, hmm. Yes, it is about guns. And it is also about kids. It is about crime, violence drive by shootings, church shootings random killings, just yesterday a family of five was killed in their home, with a gun, by an escaped prisoner.
There is no one thing. No silver bullet. It is very complicated.
And, yes, we have legislators, and have had for over 20 years and what have they done? One side proposes something, the other side blocks it. Then the other side is in office and we just repeat the same process. Over and over. And then it goes silent and nothing is done at all for a while, until something happens and brings it all back to the surface - boiling over public emotions on both sides, and politicians, being the clever slime balls that are, jump in with both feet stirring that boiling pot of anger and angst. We all yell at each other our assigned dog whistles (both sides) and again nothing happens.
Once upon a time one child was Kidnapped in March 1932. In June a federal law was passed to address kidnappings. Less than 3 months. We have been arguing about this for 20 years now, no agreement, no solutions, no mitigating laws. Just a lot of arguing. While children die every couple weeks.