Reality Check: A Muslim Killed 8 People With A Truck One Day Ago. One Month Ago...
One day ago, a mental case who happened to be a Muslim killed eight people with a truck. It was deemed an act of (international) terrorism, and we immediately (and automatically) resumed talking about turning the whole immigration system upside down, and censoring the internet to prevent such tragedies from happening again.
Just one month ago, a mental case who was not a Muslim killed 60 people and wounded 550 in Los Vegas. It was deemed an issue of (domestic) Constitutional rights, and we immediately decided that ABSOLUTELY NOTHING should be done to prevent such tragedies from happening again. (Even after BOTH PARTIES agreed that, at the very least, devices like bump fire stocks, which convert semi-automatic rifles into full fledged machine guns should be illegal....nothing has been, or will be done. That was the lowest of the low hanging fruit, and it's apparently off limits.)
Forgive me...but this political system is totally f--ked.
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Response to TrollBuster9090 (Original post)
That no one wants to ban all guns. Further, than is an NRA lie used to spread fear and sell more guns.
One of the things by which I was heartened in the aftermath of the Las Vegas shooting, was that instead of a renewed push to pass the Assault Weapons Ban in its current form, we instead saw a more narrow push to ban bump stocks, which is in my opinion, the much wiser course of action.
As someone else noted here, we strengthen the NRA when we overreach with gun control laws. The current definition of what constitutes an assault weapon is perhaps the single most cogent example of that within my lifetime, because in an effort to classify this as an assault weapon:
They also classified this as one:
Now to understand that in proper context, it should be noted that those are actually the same rifle, a Ruger 10/22, and the reason that both are classified as assault weapons, under both the most recently proposed version of the federal assault weapons ban and under current NY state law, is that both of them are semi-automatic rifles with a detachable magazine, and both have a hole in the stock for your thumb.
We could get a great deal more support in banning assault weapons if we would simply limit regulation to the aspects of a firearm that actually do have some bearing upon how dangerous the weapon is, like a bump fire stock which increases the rate of fire, or high-capacity magazines without which a high rate of fire is actually a disadvantage.
But when we ban rifles on account of things like there being a hole for your thumb to go through, we hand our opponents an easy victory, because they can say we're banning stupid shit, and be correct.
Renting vehicles depends on proving your right/ability to operate one and further prove the ability to pay fees and insurance should you misuse the vehicle.
2A backers say they can't be licensed like a drive because of the 2A, nice circular argument even though "well regulated militia" would seem to exclude the general public.
Am sure we'll hear the argument that tightening vehicle rentals won't prevent lawful use, why not the same for guns?
Remember that every time there's a mass shooting. We can't politicize it.
While they go and harass and threaten death to the victims, and accuse them of being paid actors, and make sure the government can't pass any meaningful legislation.
This happens and the gov immediately politicizes this tragedy and we need extreme vetting now!!!!! 
I'm sick of this shit.
"this war did not spring up on our land, this war was brought upon us by the children of the Great Father, who came to take our land without a price, and who, in our land, do a great many evil things...This war has come from robbery-from the stealing of our land".
This from a Native-american during the so-called 'Indian Wars' starting with the Spanish in 1540-41 along the Rio Grande River in now New Mexico until 1898 in the last acknowledged "indian war" in Minnesota.
Throw the american institution of slavery into the mix, that's terrorism to me.
recently we had 58 killed, 500+ wounded during another terrorist attack, but naw he was white, from BUNDYland, he wasn't a terrorist, was he....
But I guess the need to dominate will never go away as an active part of human psyche...been here since Cain allegedly killed Abel...right?????
Oh and by the way...bad times in ameriKKKa.....hopefully Mueller can put the boy-potius to ground...face first and pence somehow gets dragged into this madness with firm charges against him.....and they all have to
