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Yeah TSA went over my baby stroller with a fine tooth comb but kids too young to buy a beer can legally roam the streets with a rifle

"Hopes and prayers." Get ready, folks. You're gonna hear this tired and oft-used phrase many times in coming days. Some idiot in Texas just allegedly murdered 14 grade school children and a teacher in Uvalde, Texas, This is an elementary school. And I guarantee the dummies on the Right Wing of politics will defend the ownership of guns. Some of those folks will also be in this discussion group. The suspect, a student at a high school in the same Texas town, allegedly shot his grandmother to death before the school shooting. Again, I will not post a link since this an evolving news story and I am certain that whole bunch of more before we reach the end of the week. These mass shootings will never end until the country rises up to confront these crazy and psycho gun-loving Republicans and their sick apologists.

“No matter what they say or how they make you feel, remember, this is your country, too,” Dave Chappelle tells his audience. “It is incumbent upon us to save our country. And you know what we have to do.” Then comes the twist: “Every able-bodied African-American must register for a legal firearm. That’s the only way they’ll change the law. This would solve two problems.

Here in the south people say things like “i need to protect my family.” This is despite the fact that there are few instances where someone successfully thwarts a home invader by killing then before they are killed. It is far more likely a kid in the home will use a that gun to accidentally kill themselves or someone else. Many believe there is a pending race war violent over throw off the government and are arming themselves in preparation. given the “news” being fed on Fox News, and amplified on social media it is completely understandable why people feel this way.

They talk about gun control whenever there is a mass shooting. The folks who could do something about guns in America choose to plug their ears and roll their eyes until the dust settles from the latest mass shooting. Yet, nobody seems to be asking the real question of "why" Americans are so heavily armed. The majority of the population isn't hunting to survive. Most meat being consumed by Americans is slaughtered in a factory. Besides, there wouldn't be much left of an animal if it were hunted with an AR-15. That weapon is designed specifically to kill people.

I ask the question of gun control rhetorically. There is a reason assault weapons are easily accessible. The US is the most heavily armed country on the planet.