not bloody likely anywhere around here...not in the late republic...not when you have john thune on one side...
saying that an ar-15 is handy for doing in those pesky pairie dogs....
and the "everything is okay week" brigade on the other...there is no middle ground, only no-man's land...no consensus on gun control or abortion...coke or pepsi...ford or chevy...pabst or bud...i know baptists who think catholicism isn't a religion and catholics who don't see it that way at all... ( i am inclined to see them all as members of a bronze-age cult but i am a notorious crank )...there is no consensus on what it is to be "american"...or "rational"...or "normal"...or "christian"...or "democrat"...or "republican"or, probably, "human"...in-group bias ( a human universal even the cultural anthropolgists cannot escape ) makes humans exclusionary...so...the violence will continue unabated as nothing is done because there is no consensus to fuel a "political will" any more than we will stop our own extinction because there is no "will" to do that either...someone makes a good deal of money manufacturing ( or importing ) and selling guns ( oil seems to be on the profitable side these days as well...that whole climate/extinction thing ) ...the system is consequentialist...it's what you have, not how you got it...as long as there is money in it it will continue...violence would seem to be profitable...who knew?
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