CNBC - The time for polite debate on gun control is over.

[barbara]

Originally Posted by Ike Bana

Blaming organizations and political parties and billionaires and PACS for the problems of the country let those who are responsible off the hook.

Americans have the country they deserve.

Right...... 😏

Those organizations have big money which gives them big voices in the matter.

This is the way I see how change will happen...
remember back to the Vietnam war? In the beginning the troops we sent over were (for the most part) individuals who had few other career/work options. Poor folk. Or, individuals who chose the army over jail. Sure, people complained about a war we had no business fighting, but their voices were ignored.
Then, they started using that lottery or number system.... I forget what it was called. All of a sudden, people with money and a bigger voice were sending their children off to war and bringing them home in coffins. That is when the political will began to change. Now senators and governors were speaking up about how wrong it was to be fighting as their own children were at stake.

That is how I see the gun issue. Nothing will change until those in power start to really feel the hurt. Til their child, their wife, their brother or sister is taken out by a semi automatic weapon at some public event.
So far, we have not reached that point.

[Ike Bana]

Originally Posted by barbara

That is how I see the gun issue. Nothing will change until those in power start to really feel the hurt. Til their child, their wife, their brother or sister is taken out by a semi automatic weapon at some public event.
So far, we have not reached that point.

As I recently posted in the Linda Sanchez thread...

When polled 90% of Americans regularly bleat that the Congress should be cleared out and we should start over with all new people. But when polled if that includes their US House rep, over 70% say, "Oh no! Not my rep...I love my rep!!!"

Intellectually lazy-ass Americans have exactly the country they deserve. Nothing will change until the people stop being quite so stupid.