Gun Control Reform Activism
In reply to the discussion: with regard to the murders in Chapel Hill [View all]jimmy the one
(2,720 posts)leontius: But you tell me how do we prevent those people from obtaining guns? I've heard the estimate of 300+ million guns in the US do you believe that a ban and confiscation of all those are feasible, can you put the genie back in the bottle
No, of course the genie can't be put back; gun control efforts as they exist were only ever reasonably intended to marginally reduce the occurrence & rate of gun related violent crime.
It's about the best we could hope for.
I also think revealing gun lobby propaganda & exposing pro gun hypocrites in the congress & legislatures, is something important to be done. What's his name, Harvey Weinstein last year said he was making a movie with meryl streep exposing the nra, a great idea. 'The senators wife' it is called.
How can 45 republican senators vote down a gun control bill for background checks, & get away with it, when it had 90% public support? They ought to've been fired yet they still prance around capitol hill invoking 'the American people want us republicans a mandate' willy nilly. No penalty whatsoever to them for opposing gun control.
What we need is a recurring tv series which, different themes weekly, would educate americans on the true meaning & history of the 2nd amendment, & why it doesn't pertain to the modern day ability to own guns. How 2ndA is obsolete. How it encourages gun misuse by criminals in the manner the gun lobby propagandizes it. Expose the frauds in gunworld, like john lott, ted nugent, wayne lapierre-head. How many current americans know that president HW Bush resigned his lifetime membership in nra? as did general norman Schwarzkopf? hah, maybe 20% imo.
Expose the successes gun control has had in the cities & states & overseas, & eliminate the boogeyman which the nra paints us.