We cannot continue to allow the ideas of the 1700s to dictate our policy. We have moved away from women being voiceless, black people being objects, and the idea genocide to gain land is acceptable.
We can move past the idea that we need absolute gun freedom with no health treatment. We can move past the idea that we should be allowed to shoot people and the victims go bankrupt. We can move past the idea that we have no vested interest in the mental and physical health of our citizens.
We cannot have untreated mental illness and gun freedom. We cannot have gun freedom and no physical health.
The libertarian idea that it is moral to give people the right to own guns but not the right to own health care is idiotic. No moral justification for gun ownership or having a police force or military cannot also be used for health care.
We want the right to own and shoot guns but we want to take no responsibility for what that means.
Either we start acting like guns are dangerous and start acting like a society which wants to responsibly own guns, or we do not get to own guns anymore.
The point of the Second Amendment was to be able to call up weapons for militias in the time of war. That is helped by registration.
The need for armed militias is not impaired by stopping violent criminals, and the mentally ill from having guns.
When we demand the freedom to give every person as many guns as they want, we have to make sure every person shot because of our freedom has the right to medical care. That means making sure the people in our society are healthy enough to own a gun safely - open access to mental health care. That means teaching people how to safely own a guy.
Choose citizens, paying the price to have guns by offering gun safety classes, single payer health care, and some god damned sense or no guns.
I am tired of the right to kill. I want the right to live.
The libertarian idea that it is moral to give people the right to own guns but not the right to own health care is idiotic. No moral justification for gun ownership or having a police force or military cannot also be used for health care.
We want the right to own and shoot guns but we want to take no responsibility for what that means.
Either we start acting like guns are dangerous and start acting like a society which wants to responsibly own guns, or we do not get to own guns anymore.
The point of the Second Amendment was to be able to call up weapons for militias in the time of war. That is helped by registration.
The need for armed militias is not impaired by stopping violent criminals, and the mentally ill from having guns.
When we demand the freedom to give every person as many guns as they want, we have to make sure every person shot because of our freedom has the right to medical care. That means making sure the people in our society are healthy enough to own a gun safely - open access to mental health care. That means teaching people how to safely own a guy.
Choose citizens, paying the price to have guns by offering gun safety classes, single payer health care, and some god damned sense or no guns.
I am tired of the right to kill. I want the right to live.
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