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the objective should be to reduce gun violence.
none of the absolutist arguments regard "natural law" or fantasies about "what the framers thought" mean anything in the face of that.
that's why the gun lobby cannot afford to allow a debate on rational grounds about the topic---if they loose the framing they loose completely. because they can't defend levels of gun violence.
arguments for reducing gun violence are not about "magically wiping guns off the face of the earth" or any other loopy canard brought to you in the interest of obscuring the issue and hamstringing debate courtesy of the nra and their subsidiaries organizations working in the cesspool of militia-based neo-fascism.
the argument for reducing gun violence is that the levels tolerated in the united states are not acceptable. even a rudimentary comparison between american numbers and that of almost any other country show a clear correlation between making guns less easily available and reductions in gun-related violence.
guns don't make you free. you aren't free now but many of you have guns. look around. you live in a financial oligarchy and you have a gun. you live under a single party state with two right wings and you have a gun. you live in a fading empire, you can do nothing about anything to do with either the empire or the ways in which it is fading and you have a gun. wake up.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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