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Gun control has become the most important political issue in this country. And in the wake of the mass murder at the Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, public support to control the purchase of semi-automatic assault type rifles has reached an all time high. Only the Republican Party and conservatives remain steadfast in the belief these weapons should be freely available to all.
To the young people of the United States, those under the age of twenty-one have never known a day when their nation has NOT been at war. And over the past decade, these young people watched as conservatives spewed disrespect, bigotry, and racial hatred towards the first African-American President, Muslims, black Americans, Hispanic Americans, Native Americans, and anyone else whose heritage they deemed questionable.
The seventeen students and teachers killed at Stoneman Douglas High School and the reaction by the students in the aftermath, started a nationwide movement by this young generation, to fight “ business as usual” by the Republicans controlling our government. Across the country U.S. students see ending the sales of semi-automatic assault type rifles as a matter of survival.
Strangely, this movement has rattled the corporate world, which is uncommon. Businesses have removed their financial support from the NRA. Wealthy donors are holding back political donations from Republicans who refuse to pass gun control legislation, and with the recent announcement by Dick’s Sporting Goods, the only remaining major retail outlet selling these weapons for mass murder is Bass Pro Shop and its subsidiary Cabela’s.
In addition to ending sales, and regardless of any government action, many gun sellers have raised the age limit to buy any type of gun to twenty-one.
To the leaders in the large companies, their move to control who can buy guns and who cannot is also a matter of survival. These businessmen (and business women) understand the time has come to begin common sense gun control, because the younger generation has come of age. Many will be voting in the 2018 mid-term elections, and many, many more will be of voting age in 2020. (And they are angry, giving them strong motivation to vote.)
At the same time, the old geezers who consistently elect Republicans are rapidly dying off. Especially as the GOP takes health insurance from several million low and middle income conservatives, accelerating the demise of this voting block.
In the 1960s and early 70s, the protests by hundreds-of-thousands of kids in their late teens and early to mid twenties forced the government to end the Vietnam War. Now, this up and coming generation has had a gut full of the conservatives offering only “thoughts and prayers” as their best efforts to end the mass killings of children and adults in our schools and other public gathering places.
The GOP should reconsider serving only the needs of the super rich, and pandering to an aging and dying voting base to get the votes they need for reelection. As a majority, the ignorant, middle aged and elderly, white male bigots and their repressed and obedient wives is rapidly going away.
Even the idiot Trump is openly advocating some form of gun control. This is simply a matter of survival for the young generation and Big Business. After watching this happen so quickly, the old, white, Republican establishment should read the writing on the wall and rethink what they need for political survival.
As always, thoughtful comments are welcome. Unfortunately, the conservatives remain either unaware or will deny their individual response to this thread is their typical nonsense consisting of denial, alternate facts, and/or off-topic silliness. (e.g. non-sequiturs, ratings, transference, deflection, memes, etc.). Their mindless prattle is expected by people of reason, who also realize it is a waste of time to offer the conservatives any reply.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/after-dick’s-only-one-major-retailer-is-still-selling-semi-automatic-rifles/ar-BBJHwJC?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartandhp
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-stuns-lawmakers-with-seeming-embrace-of-gun-control-measures/ar-BBJI1QI?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartandhp
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Gun control has become the most important political issue in this country. And in the wake of the mass murder at the Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, public support to control the purchase of semi-automatic assault type rifles has reached an all time high. Only the Republican Party and conservatives remain steadfast in the belief these weapons should be freely available to all.
To the young people of the United States, those under the age of twenty-one have never known a day when their nation has NOT been at war. And over the past decade, these young people watched as conservatives spewed disrespect, bigotry, and racial hatred towards the first African-American President, Muslims, black Americans, Hispanic Americans, Native Americans, and anyone else whose heritage they deemed questionable.
The seventeen students and teachers killed at Stoneman Douglas High School and the reaction by the students in the aftermath, started a nationwide movement by this young generation, to fight “ business as usual” by the Republicans controlling our government. Across the country U.S. students see ending the sales of semi-automatic assault type rifles as a matter of survival.
Strangely, this movement has rattled the corporate world, which is uncommon. Businesses have removed their financial support from the NRA. Wealthy donors are holding back political donations from Republicans who refuse to pass gun control legislation, and with the recent announcement by Dick’s Sporting Goods, the only remaining major retail outlet selling these weapons for mass murder is Bass Pro Shop and its subsidiary Cabela’s.
In addition to ending sales, and regardless of any government action, many gun sellers have raised the age limit to buy any type of gun to twenty-one.
To the leaders in the large companies, their move to control who can buy guns and who cannot is also a matter of survival. These businessmen (and business women) understand the time has come to begin common sense gun control, because the younger generation has come of age. Many will be voting in the 2018 mid-term elections, and many, many more will be of voting age in 2020. (And they are angry, giving them strong motivation to vote.)
At the same time, the old geezers who consistently elect Republicans are rapidly dying off. Especially as the GOP takes health insurance from several million low and middle income conservatives, accelerating the demise of this voting block.
In the 1960s and early 70s, the protests by hundreds-of-thousands of kids in their late teens and early to mid twenties forced the government to end the Vietnam War. Now, this up and coming generation has had a gut full of the conservatives offering only “thoughts and prayers” as their best efforts to end the mass killings of children and adults in our schools and other public gathering places.
The GOP should reconsider serving only the needs of the super rich, and pandering to an aging and dying voting base to get the votes they need for reelection. As a majority, the ignorant, middle aged and elderly, white male bigots and their repressed and obedient wives is rapidly going away.
Even the idiot Trump is openly advocating some form of gun control. This is simply a matter of survival for the young generation and Big Business. After watching this happen so quickly, the old, white, Republican establishment should read the writing on the wall and rethink what they need for political survival.
As always, thoughtful comments are welcome. Unfortunately, the conservatives remain either unaware or will deny their individual response to this thread is their typical nonsense consisting of denial, alternate facts, and/or off-topic silliness. (e.g. non-sequiturs, ratings, transference, deflection, memes, etc.). Their mindless prattle is expected by people of reason, who also realize it is a waste of time to offer the conservatives any reply.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/after-dick’s-only-one-major-retailer-is-still-selling-semi-automatic-rifles/ar-BBJHwJC?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartandhp
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-stuns-lawmakers-with-seeming-embrace-of-gun-control-measures/ar-BBJI1QI?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartandhp
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