I think @Joe35357's point could have been more explicatory. Platitudes are easy targets, dude! @GSpellchecker
@GSpellchecker @Joe35357 The greatest threat to US gun control is constitutional fundamentalism employed by private interests with $$$.
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@emlynaddison I'm not sure how many times I need to reiterate. Gun control = good idea. Outright ban = unrealistic.
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@GSpellchecker@Joe35357 Yes, got it. I was born in South Africa...think we didn't disbelieve Apartheid's sudden end? A little imagination. -
@emlynaddison Completely unrelated comparison.
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@GSpellchecker@Joe35357 IMO you are dead wrong on that score. It's about human nature & its capacity to see the shit about to hit the fan. -
@emlynaddison Forgive me if I see it absurd to conflate the issues.
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@GSpellchecker@Joe35357 I've lived on 3 continents and IMO most people fall into a very few categories. The rest is institution-building.
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@emlynaddison You're also failing to acknowledge the vast numbers of citizens who want to have guns & won't relinquish them
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@GSpellchecker@Joe35357 History is littered with the carcasses of die-hard cultural habits supplanted by enlightenment/social progress.
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@emlynaddison If you don't think U.S has unique concerns prohibiting simple gun solutions I don't know what you're talking about
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@GSpellchecker@Joe35357 Look at the latest D.C. debacle: Over 80% of US was FOR expanded background checks, yet Senate failed to pass it. -
@emlynaddison Yes. Gun control. Did I mention I was in favour of it? Also, how did that go?
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@GSpellchecker@Joe35357 Yes, I heard you 8 tweets ago. I bring these up to illustrate my POV. Am I permitted to do that?
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@emlynaddison regretably, scary issues of prohibition aside, a lawful ban requires 2/3 congress or 3/4 states.
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@MistaHix@GSpellchecker@Joe35357 Vodka martinis weren't used in mass killings but, yes, it becomes a problem of political ability. -
@emlynaddison was refering to any potential prohibition of firearms. 300m already out there. Highest level in world
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@MistaHix Yes, it's undoubtedly an issue to contend with but is not really akin to alcohol prohibition; that was lifestyle not weaponry. -
@emlynaddison But you'd still be left with 75m armed, angry and newly made criminals.
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@MistaHix ...and therein lies the utter, ruthless stupidity of the American model: the paranoid, ruralist patriarchs have $$$ & connections. -
@emlynaddison it can be changed through democracy. Try harder. Educate. But be realistic. Change takes time. Thanks for the chat :)
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@MistaHix Yep, a ban would take a series of well-crafted baby steps...not impossible, but highly improbable. I pity the Newtown children. - 6 more replies
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