• PoliticalAgitator@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    The “responsible” part is entirely optional, at your own staunch insistence and every single person who commits a crime with a legally purchased gun was once one of your “responsible gun owners”.

    The Ulvade shooter was a former “responsible gun owner”. The Republican donor who just tried to execute his wife in the street was a former “responsible gun owner”. The man who shot a black child through his door, then tried to execute him as he lay bleeding on the ground was a former “responsible gun owner”.

    And where do the people with illegal guns get them? Why, from “responsible gun owners” of course!

    Over a million “responsible gun owners” allow their poorly secured firearms to be stolen each year, because responsibility is optional.

    Millions more conduct private sales without a background check, because responsibility is optional.

    The dirty secret is that you don’t care if they’re responsible or not. You don’t care if they don’t know how to safely handle a gun, if they leave it sitting loaded in a drawer or if they sweep their friends 50 times each hunting trip. You don’t care if they kill their wives or mutilate a room full of children beyond recognition.

    The only thing you care about is that you will never have to prove you’re responsible or be held accountable when you’re not.