02-25-2018, 04:41 PM
This problem has past the point of no return.
Disagree. We might not see major change in our generation, but down the road it seems probable. Societies have ended or greatly suppressed all sorts of things over time. Slavery. Imprisoning people without trials. Bear baiting. Spraying DDT all over the place.
We can allow every NRA supporter alive today to keep their guns until death. The real battleground will be future generations.
It helps that fewer people hunt every year (big fall in numbers here), fewer people grow up on ranches or on farms. (I find these 2 trends somewhat depressing, having spent time in rural hunting areas as a kid in the 60s). There is some linkage from these two things to gun ownership.
Put another way, it makes a much less sense for city dwellers to be allowed to have concealed carry permits and handguns than it does for a rural dweller to have a hunting rifle.
NRA supporters are working hard to indoctrinate their children in their ideology. Conversely, liberal city dwellers against guns do the same (though IMO much less persistently than the pro-gun crowd). We'll see how the demographics go.
Perhaps the Florida shooting is a tipping point, compelling many young people nationwide to realize the idiocy of allowing people to possess rapid-fire military capable weapons like the AR-15.
Disagree. We might not see major change in our generation, but down the road it seems probable. Societies have ended or greatly suppressed all sorts of things over time. Slavery. Imprisoning people without trials. Bear baiting. Spraying DDT all over the place.
We can allow every NRA supporter alive today to keep their guns until death. The real battleground will be future generations.
It helps that fewer people hunt every year (big fall in numbers here), fewer people grow up on ranches or on farms. (I find these 2 trends somewhat depressing, having spent time in rural hunting areas as a kid in the 60s). There is some linkage from these two things to gun ownership.
Put another way, it makes a much less sense for city dwellers to be allowed to have concealed carry permits and handguns than it does for a rural dweller to have a hunting rifle.
NRA supporters are working hard to indoctrinate their children in their ideology. Conversely, liberal city dwellers against guns do the same (though IMO much less persistently than the pro-gun crowd). We'll see how the demographics go.
Perhaps the Florida shooting is a tipping point, compelling many young people nationwide to realize the idiocy of allowing people to possess rapid-fire military capable weapons like the AR-15.