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Thread. El Paso. Dayton. What can anyone say. It's not like we didn't know this was going to happen. There is no rational person who could not have added two and two and seen what would be the inevitable consequence of decades of laws that expanded 1/
Access to weapons, the lethality of those weapons, and the circumstances under which they could be carried and deployed. Of course this was going to be our inevitable reality. I'm only surprised we didn't get here sooner. So here's the thing. 2/
There are too many weapons that are too deadly and already in the hands of too many people holding ideologies that you and I (and by you and I, I mean rational, reasonable people) think are literally bonkers. These ideologies hold that there is a 'great replacement' going on 3/
Oh my gosh, if that's really true I think it might be for the best to welcome it. If your white supremacy needs to take this shape in order to preserve your sacred lack of melanin, then we need replacing. Don't we? 4/
Suck it up, America. Weapons will need to be confiscated. Regulations will need to be tightened. There is no other path. Stop telling me that your right to a gun trumps all the dead bodies. It doesn't. Stop telling me that you don't break laws with your gun and therefore 5/
There shouldn't be laws. That's specious on its face and you know it. Stop telling me that people will just kill people with other things. When you show me how one person can use a knife to kill 20 and injure 26 in a matter of minutes, I'll help you ban knives. 6/
Guess what, gun people, I do agree with you on one point. Laws on their own won't solve the problems. (BTW we won't 'solve' any problems while we think there is such a thing as a single solution to any problem much less one this complex) I agree with you that there is 7/
More to the mass shooting problem than just laws. It is a problem in people's minds and hearts. It's been allowed to simmer for generations. But the guy you all voted for has opened the Pandora's Box (Maybe we should call it Donald's Box?) of hatred and recrimination toward 8/
Brown people. It was all already there of course, he just figured out how to deploy the hatred to his own political advantage. Are you proud of this? This shooting, like many many others, is the direct result of his language and his policies. 8/
He won't take responsibility of course. Neither will you. And you, gun people, will scream bloody murder (sorry, but that expression seemed appropriate here) at me for saying so, but that is because deep in your hearts, you know you are complicit. 9/
Racism is a chronic, progressive and untreatable mental illness It is the conviction that a lack of melanin is anything other than a small physical aberrationAnd by the way, the aberration is oursAre you planning to kill ALL the brown people?Because you don't have enough ammo10/
This problem must be legislated at the Federal, State and local levels. It must trigger (pun intended) a radical rethinking of the 2nd Amendment (maybe even a repeal?) and deep soul searching on all of our parts. It will take generations, but I don't see any better way out. END
