‘One Problem Is You, Dear Reader’: 3 Reasons Why Nothing Will Change After Las Vegas
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By Steve Israel for The New York Times
In the wake of one the deadliest mass shootings in our nation’s history, perhaps the most asked question by Americans is, “Will anything change?” The simple answer is no. The more vital question is, “Why not?”
Congress is already doing what it sees as its part. Flags have been lowered, thoughts and prayers tweeted, and sometime this week it will perfo
After Sandy Hook I knew nothing will ever matter pertaining to sensible gun control and regulation
You summarised the facts. Let us wait for the next killing. New legislation on hold due to shooting. Weapons to be allowed to be carried cross border, and silencers to be sold to the public. Will be re introduced when the news fades. I am sure the NRA will shed a few public crocodile tears.
All too true. Our moment to be true to our citizens has come and passed. I personally think a president who tells us he could shoot someone and nothing would happen to him says it all. The glamour of “heroes and heroine” in our movies, video games, propaganda, military plus 300 million guns in our country, bought and paid for lawmakers leave us with the knowledge that the next record slaying will be tomorrow or the next day. This is pathetic. We are all “sitting ducks” in a country gone mad.
Folks $$$ in our political system is the real evil and keeps us from even a discussion, yes just a fu*king discussion on anything that matters (guns, climate, taxes, population, religion, voter suppression, healthcare, race, wages, education, renewable energy, etc). The division is one sided and the “haves” keep telling their paid for congress (both sides in some cases) how unfair The United States of America has been to them. Our cheap $$$, our roads, our airports, our canals, our bridges, our parking lots, our energy, our good will is not enough, they want your soul, your dignity, your last few pennies.
So if you are looking for any help or discussion about our safety as a nation it is not going to happen because we are the fodder in this war on US.
Would be nice if the leftists would get this mad over the dozens of shootings occurring each week in Chicago or the hundreds occurring in our inner-cities. But they won’t because it doesn’t fit their agenda.
Chicago is the most gun-controlled city in the United States and it’s worse than a Somalian war zone. Any proactive policing is branded as “racist” and black-on-black murder — consisting of approximately 90% of the killings — continues to be totally out of control.
Taking away guns from law-abiding citizens doesn’t work and has never worked, and wouldn’t have prevented Las Vegas.
They’re called criminals for a reason — because they don’t follow the law.
Don’t blame out of control gangsters in Chicago on who you are calling “leftists” — trust me “leftists” are as disgusted and angry about that crime wave also! If it is not on national news, it does not get nationwide coverage.
And the ‘law-abiding citizen” who secretly had at least 45 guns, semi-automatics and automatics included with thousands of rounds of ammo, who hid out for a few days contemplating his act of mass murder – the largest in the history of United States! – IF HE DID NOT HAVE ANY GUNS he would not have murdered 59 people and 500 more with various levels of wounds! It would most certainly have prevented the mass murder. Mental illness and anger is a dangerous combination.
Gun Laws must be changed. It would also help in Chicago.
If political contributions from NRA were prohibited, changing gun laws would be easy!