You know how in school, work, sports, etc... all it takes is a few folks screwing up for everyone else, that's what we are seeing. Go ahead a make fun, and tell me how #shallnotbeinfringed will stop the politicians from passing more laws.
We gun owners can keep that train of thought or we can start coming up with a solution or the politicians will.
I think, what you will find, is that they will pass more laws regardless of whatever “self policing” we do. The opposing side does not want “common sense gun laws”...they want total disarmament. Anything that is less than that will be met with tears and screams of being complicit in the deaths of children.
So no, I’m not jaded enough to think a fancy hashtag and internet bravado is going to preserve anything. But I do know that is gun owners have been offering solid advice for decades and they don’t care:
1. Firearms education early, even supported by the schools.
2. Stop letting violent offenders out of jail.
3. Crimes committed with firearms are immediate max sentences with zero possibility of parole.
4. Re-open mental health institutions.
5. De-stigmatize mental health problems.
6. Stop penalizing people for prescribing to medicine that helps them cope: i.e. marijuana gun bans, making people feel wary of discussing their mental health with doctors for fear of red flag attacks.
7. Encourage public armament. Harden targets.
8. Stop protecting businesses, banks, government buildings, and sports arenas with men with guns while trying to protect schools and shopping malls with signs and feelings.
9. Utilize social media to induce a complete and total blackout of mass shooters. No photos, no comments, no names, no issuing their manifesto. You commit an act like this then you vanish. You cease to exist. Your entire history is wiped out from public record. Your birth certificate deleted. Social media accounts scrubbed. All school records shut down. You become a ghost. No one knows who you are, why you did it, or anything about you. No fame. None. You want to go out in a blaze of glory? Then learn to play Guns and Roses tunes.
These, and more, have been supported for years as steps that would actually influence or change public construct to better prevent or defend against these acts. But they are less than “End teh Gunshowz loophole!!! No weeponz of war! It eveeel black rifle!!’ bans it!!!” So they get no traction.
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