As far as (R) politicians and voters are concerned, there is ONE civil right that is sacred and must be upheld even to the exclusion of any others: the right to obtain and maintain a private arsenal of firearms and a stockpile of ammo with minimal legal interference (and preferably none at all).
There have been books written to explain the reasons for (and results of) this (R) obsession with using guns to put holes in things, but it's enough to say that parading around with an expensive handgun or a modified military rifle is the ultimate exhibition of hyper-masculinity among insecure conservative white males. Taking this away from them would be similar to involuntary castration, I suppose.
Since the Dark Era of Covfefe began, the frequency of murder sprees with weapons that spray bullets is increasing to the point that I'm having to take being fired upon as a realistic possibility when I'm in a public venue like a Walmart store. That's a new one, since the only time I had machine gun bullets whizzing past me, the Army took precautions to make sure they were aimed to miss me (USAFAS at Fort Sill).
At any rate, a lot of people who aren't right-wing gun crazies are getting fed up with this shit, and as a result, some (R) politicians are pretending to give a fuck about the social implications of weekly massacres (they don't). Washington Monthly has an article about the latest feint by Donny Guano and other (R)s to create the impression they're taking decisive action to solve the problem. Hint: It involves the sort of meaningless gesture that (R) politicians made famous.
There have been books written to explain the reasons for (and results of) this (R) obsession with using guns to put holes in things, but it's enough to say that parading around with an expensive handgun or a modified military rifle is the ultimate exhibition of hyper-masculinity among insecure conservative white males. Taking this away from them would be similar to involuntary castration, I suppose.
Since the Dark Era of Covfefe began, the frequency of murder sprees with weapons that spray bullets is increasing to the point that I'm having to take being fired upon as a realistic possibility when I'm in a public venue like a Walmart store. That's a new one, since the only time I had machine gun bullets whizzing past me, the Army took precautions to make sure they were aimed to miss me (USAFAS at Fort Sill).
At any rate, a lot of people who aren't right-wing gun crazies are getting fed up with this shit, and as a result, some (R) politicians are pretending to give a fuck about the social implications of weekly massacres (they don't). Washington Monthly has an article about the latest feint by Donny Guano and other (R)s to create the impression they're taking decisive action to solve the problem. Hint: It involves the sort of meaningless gesture that (R) politicians made famous.
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