Thanks so much, NRA

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

Actually I think that Obama is right about this whole thing, while 90% of the population considers background checks a good, reasonable and sensible thing to do, the remaining 10% are so vocal that they get what they want. Only when a more vocal, committed and wide movement takes the opposite initiative the situation will remain the same or worse.

[Opsa]

This is one of the reasons that I feel so down today. Sometimes I feel like I just can't understand anything. 

[goat starer]

Bill hicks had this one nailed

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MEzCtyRWP8

[Opsa]

Goatie! So great to see you again!!!!

I feel much better, now! 

[goat starer]

quick! post that in the good things thread! its a good feeling!!! 

[Swatopluk]

And another avoidable tragedy

[youtube=425,350]SDXvnsZ7CmU[/youtube]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDXvnsZ7CmU

And the comment thread (as was to be expected) kills even more hope about the state of humanity.

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

[dark humor]
Look at the bright side, I bet that girl is now fully turned off guns...
[/dark humor]

[Swatopluk]

[dark humor]
Look at the bright side, I bet that girl is now fully turned off guns...
[/dark humor]

One can only hope so

[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

Whatever happens next?  That poor kid is now scarred for the remainder of her life. 

That's two lives (at least), wasted.   

When will enough become enough?

[Griffin NoName]

I don't think enough will ever be enough. No one is going to give up their rights.

[Swatopluk]

Well, there are some things that would lead to rather rapid change but I cannot recommend any of them.
It would involve the 'wrong' people starting to champion THEIR rights right into the face of the self-appointed defenders of the same that always omit the clause 'does not apply to those I do not like'. Remember the vilified pink pistol movement?

[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

Yes, you are correct (of course).

This is just a symptom of a larger problem-- solve the bigger issue?  And the too many guns one will go away (or at least be so inconsequential that it can be ignored).

*sigh*

One wonders how many children have to be ruined before things get better, though.   

Oh, yes-- I already know the answer to *that* one-- children are *always* the ones sacrificed first, in any sort of cultural issue(s).  Just look at religion's ugly and sordid history with regards to the treatment of children.

It's not that someone deliberately sits down, and tries to come up with "let's put the kids at risk *first* and foremost".  Rather, that's just how things eventually fall out-- the kids suffer first, as they are the most vulnerable, the weakest physically, the least capable mentally/emotionally, and so forth.

... meh.