How many rights do we have to give up to protect guns??

[nolabear]

Censor the news. Prohibit videos. Give up mental health confidentiality. Require willingness to kill. Allow law enforcement to profile. Allow anyone to carry concealed guns anywhere.

I’m not a fan of violence and believe kids are influenced by unending violence. But we have to be extremely careful not to sanitize information in the service of guns, guns, guns.

This is dangerous territory, folks.

[SamKnause]

1. The very first one mentioned; Life.

You don't need rights when you are dead.

[Initech]

2. This country is so addicted to its' guns.

And it's reached that stage of the addiction where it's beginning to become a real problem. Not just a problem - a real danger to themselves and others. The stage where they must choose between their vice and the lives of others. Unfortunately, they're choosing their vice, and the vice wins. It's going to take a lot to break that addiction cycle.

[nolabear]

3. Addiction in the short term and self definition in the long term.

People use props to enhance their beliefs about who they are. It never showed more than that fool’s statement about how he’d run into an active shooter situation the other day. No one thinks in real terms about how ineffective they would be with a gun or how likely an accident if they carried one everywhere. Everyone is the hero, not the bumbling fool or even the ordinary, frightened and fallible human.