2019-09-21, 15:47
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Sekiroad-Idols Sing Twice
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Blooming Blue Rose
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Sandy Hook Promise releases back to school (shootings) advertisement
Warning: the following video features imagery some viewers might find disturbing
The most confusing aspect about the state of firearms in the U.S. is the country's inability to enact even basic firearm reform. Congressmen and senators are employed by the citizenry and should on paper represent their interests; the proletariat have the power to affect change when they want it, and no amount of financial contributions from NRA leadership or gun manufacturers toward congress would override the will of even the vast majority of the NRA's membership and gun-owning households in the U.S. Should a denial of progress surface even then. Perhaps it's time for an admission of something fundamentally wrong with the machinations of the U.S. There are no predictions about the future at that point; only bated breath hoping certain events will not come to pass
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2019-09-21, 21:08
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The reason people get guns is because they want to protect themselves from other people who have guns. And there's already so many guns in circulation.
The US is broken. What do you do when cancer has metastasized and entered the circulatory system? //
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2019-09-22, 07:44
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Logician and Romantic
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Within my mind
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Doesn't matter how many firearms you own, the one that shoots first has the advantage. At some point, the myth that guns can protect you had to be shattered. Buying a gun is not a solution, because that implied that you are not safe in your home. There are those who buy guns because they like guns. But then try to pretend they could be heroes. But we know anyone who doesn't wear a badge, would look like just another shooter. At this point, the facts on the ground is that Americans are fine with shootings as long as it is done in the hands of their own citizens. Foreigners with guns are obviously terrorism, but Americans shooting Americans is just part of the local culture.
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2019-09-22, 09:44
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AS Oji-kun
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Younger generations are much less likely to own guns, a trend that has persisted since World War II. Now only about a third of American households own a gun. In households headed by someone under fifty, the figure is even lower. And if there is no man present, only about 16 percent own guns.
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2019-09-22, 10:08
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Join Date: May 2006
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Start with using factual arguments instead of emotional appeals.
Also here is a handy primer for the demographics of gun ownership in the US. https://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2017...gun-ownership/ |
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2019-09-22, 11:05
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AS Oji-kun
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The Pew study is based on adults, so it gives a lower rate of ownership than studies that report data for households. I use the General Social Survey from the National Opinion Research Center. While Pew is a high-quality polling organization, they rely on telephone samples. NORC uses a sample of dwellings. It has also been conducted every other year since 1972 so it's possible to follow trends and conduct "cohort analyses" of the kind I report in https://www.politicsbythenumbers.org...ans-and-women/ and earlier articles in my blog.
And "factual arguments" have a lot less effect politically than "emotional appeals." Gun control is an inherently emotional issue. Emotions matter when moms talk with their kids who've been through lockdown drills. Emotions also matter when 2nd Amendment extremists scream NRA propaganda.
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