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ecib  ·  3417 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Another theater shooting. 3 dead 7 injured in Lafayette, Louisiana

I don't mean to sound like I've given up. I'll continue to support common sense regulation on arms. But I just don't have the sense that there can be movement here. I really do think that after all those kids getting got down and the same week the NRA proposed the solution was more guns in the classrooms on the teacher's hips...that said it all. America either agreed, disagreed, or didn't bother to engage. Bottom line is that there wasn't an uproar either from the population and certainly not from our politicians.

I think we have to wait for the Dems to control both houses and the presidency and have some more kids gunned down all at the same time. Then maybe.

But the actual reality is that there's only so much we can ever do without a constitutional amendment. The pro-gun lobby is actually correct in many instances that any given piece of proposed legislation often wouldn't stop the actual crime that propelled it. We're allowed to have guns. If you have a gun you have a gun.