Yeah, good luck with that
"Can the National Rifle Association ever be defeated? I can’t blame you if you’re thinking “no.” It won again this week, as everyone knew it would. But someday, this dam will break."
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/06/22/nra-corpses-pile-up.html
But will it really? The gun culture is so deeply ingrained into the American psyche, it's enough to just blurt out the words "2nd Amendment" and "Freedom", and the whole discourse instantaneously departs from the domain of reason, and starts being all about emotion.
Even someone who likes to pretend they're a reasonable guy like O'Reilly is eventually compelled to spit out the dumb argument like he did the other night at Colbert's show: You see, you just can't stop bad people doing bad things with guns, and besides, you'll never take people's guns away from them, because that's just how America is.
Is that it? No matter how stupid and worthless the current legislation is, and how much harm befalls these same people because of it, they'd still refuse to do anything about it, just because it's "their way"?
Speaking of doing "something" about it, just for the sake of appearing to do anything... the senators have hailed themselves for unveiling a gun bill that affects... wait for it... 2,700 Americans. Look, there's even the words "gun" and "bipartisan" in the bill's title. What else do you want, you damn liberals?
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/06/22/nra-corpses-pile-up.html
But will it really? The gun culture is so deeply ingrained into the American psyche, it's enough to just blurt out the words "2nd Amendment" and "Freedom", and the whole discourse instantaneously departs from the domain of reason, and starts being all about emotion.
Even someone who likes to pretend they're a reasonable guy like O'Reilly is eventually compelled to spit out the dumb argument like he did the other night at Colbert's show: You see, you just can't stop bad people doing bad things with guns, and besides, you'll never take people's guns away from them, because that's just how America is.
Is that it? No matter how stupid and worthless the current legislation is, and how much harm befalls these same people because of it, they'd still refuse to do anything about it, just because it's "their way"?
Speaking of doing "something" about it, just for the sake of appearing to do anything... the senators have hailed themselves for unveiling a gun bill that affects... wait for it... 2,700 Americans. Look, there's even the words "gun" and "bipartisan" in the bill's title. What else do you want, you damn liberals?