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Posted On: 02/19/2018 9:56:04 AM
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NRA HAS ZERO TOLERANCE FOR DISCUSSION:
If we are waiting for the numbers of school shooting victims—or, for that matter, nightclub victims, concert-going victims, shopping mall victims, young inner-city black men or suicidal veterans—to grow high enough to move legislators to act, it ain’t gonna happen. Numbers have not brought politicians to their senses. Nor has sympathy or compassion: The shootings continue, despite victims, their family members and even the families of perpetrators recounting the horrors of gun violence in predictably tragic media coverage. “Common-sense” policy solutions aren’t enough either, because we are so polarized that what is called common sense by one side of the gun debate is seen as propaganda or false by the other. There are those who favor “gun control,” but the term is not well-defined except by the other side, who see them as so single-mindedly focused on safety that they would happily take all firearms out of civilian hands. On the other side are those who favor gun rights and have been conditioned by the NRA leadership to have zero tolerance for any discussion whatsoever about preventing gun violence. They are seen as irrational “gun nuts” by the gun-control side.
If we are waiting for the numbers of school shooting victims—or, for that matter, nightclub victims, concert-going victims, shopping mall victims, young inner-city black men or suicidal veterans—to grow high enough to move legislators to act, it ain’t gonna happen. Numbers have not brought politicians to their senses. Nor has sympathy or compassion: The shootings continue, despite victims, their family members and even the families of perpetrators recounting the horrors of gun violence in predictably tragic media coverage. “Common-sense” policy solutions aren’t enough either, because we are so polarized that what is called common sense by one side of the gun debate is seen as propaganda or false by the other. There are those who favor “gun control,” but the term is not well-defined except by the other side, who see them as so single-mindedly focused on safety that they would happily take all firearms out of civilian hands. On the other side are those who favor gun rights and have been conditioned by the NRA leadership to have zero tolerance for any discussion whatsoever about preventing gun violence. They are seen as irrational “gun nuts” by the gun-control side.
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