Gun control. There, I said it.
It really is a source of frustration to you that the United States doesn't govern by melodrama, victimhood, and media fawning, isn't it?
And why not? What's wrong with having a soul? Maybe we can't go back to the idealistic days of our youth, but we can still stand for common sense. Looking back at the "liberal and youth-oriented days" of the '60's and Vietnam, isn't it obvious now that 58,000 soldiers died for nothing? If the AR-15 was used in all of the recent mass shootings, what is SO wrong about banning it? There will still be soo many guns and rifles around for protection, hunting and target practice. If you can't relate to a teen losing his best friend because it is too "melodramatic", can you at least relate to a father who lost his daughter?
Who said anything about souls, dumbass? We're talking about glands. Pure, mindless, chemical emotion, which anyone who can remember being a teenager (and has actually outgrown it) can tell you makes for an unstable, unreliable person.
I do love how you go straight from praise for hormonal reactions to "stand for common sense", as though the two are related, rather than mutually exclusive. People who actually CAN look back at the Vietnam era, rather than looking at the misty-eyed fantasies the faded flower children have painted of it, know that the only reason those deaths were "for nothing" is because of the sympathizers and useful idiots in this country who sabotaged any chance of the war being conducted effectively, PRECISELY because they were too caught up in their belief in the superior "brilliance" of their emotions substituted for thought.
If you have to actually ask "What is so wrong with infringing on rights and restricting law-abiding people's freedoms for no real gains, simply because it 'feelz' like doing something", then we're really not speaking the same language here at all.
If you can't relate to NOT allowing someone who is grieving to make huge, life-changing (and in this case, nation-changing) decisions in the heat of the moment, because it's a frigging STUPID and irresponsible thing to do, is there any aspect of rational, mature, adult behavior you CAN relate to?
