Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: In your opinion, what is the Second Amendment? n/t [View all]NRaleighLiberal
(60,034 posts)One size does not fit all. I respect my lefty friends' rights to own guns because they have to kill critters. I respect that people have different hobbies - and if they want to collect guns, fine. I respect that some people find a thrill in hitting a target with a gun. Myself - no interest whatsoever. I grew up where no one needed or wanted them. we've never and will never own one - our choice.
But the high powered types of guns, the overwhelming collections, the reactions to shootings where deaths of young people are secondary to people's rights to own these killing machines - that's where the one size fits all doesn't work. That's where the world today is much different than that 200 or more years ago.
So guns with never, ever, ever make sense to me. And these massacres will never, never make sense to me. And that they keep happening is simply insane.
But that's the world we live in - and with the gobs of money spent to make sure that these things are still in people's hands - well, at 60, I think we are all screwed anyway, be it the climate, guns, politics - you name it. We have countless faults as humans, and they all - greed, corruption, hubris, violence, power - all seem to be coming home to roost.
Hence my love of nature, gardening, writing, music. To escape it all.
I also think Michael Moore is on to something (in his Bowling for Columbine) - fear. It drives behavior. and we are one shit the pants, scared country of people, in general. I refuse to let fear rule me or my life, though.