I had an extended 'online conversation' with one of the ardent gun-lobbyists last night. More fool me, no good came of it. He just kept repeatedly spouting crap - for example he said there were not too many guns but too few, and if we could get guns into EVERYONE'S hands this slaughter would miraculously stop.

Oh, and I'm also a communist, socialist libturd - but heck, I'll wear that as a badge of honour.

If you defined a mass shooting as four or more people getting shot, then the U.S. averages more than one every day.

As I have often said, republicans are only "moral" as long as it requires no personal sacrifice on their own part. They stop caring about "life", as soon as it is out of the womb, because to continue to care would require some personal sacrifice, which they are just not willing to do.

You called it homie. Do you have to be so right all the time? Damn.

I would agree with your statement if it didn't have a major flaw, the god forsaken bullshit, if anything this fucking country is doing exactly what the christian right wants, and I am sick of it too.

I don't blame god for how fucked up our system is, I blame our voters for not waking up long ago and voting out the two major parties for a third party that would be responsive and effective on not only gun control, campaign financing, and economic reform, because it's not like the Soviet Union, where no free elections were allowed. We just had too many blind voters that would never take a chance on electing leaders who were not bought and corrupt, even after decades of proof that they were, and after better candidates from third parties were available as a choice. All we need is people being willing to take a chance, collectively, to start voting their hopes rather than their fears every time, with lesser evil voting or not voting at all.

You win. 🫤