Originally published at: Georgia gun shop owner quits after too many mass shootings: "I just can't." | Boing Boing
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Good on him for developing a conscience.
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Sometimes, it only takes 984 mass shootings and countless innocent lives. /s
Although, you’re right. I am glad he’s contrite and wants change.
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Because all those shootings were accidents from unsafe firearm handling.
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When it comes to sincerely appealing to people’s morality even a fraction of growth in one person is a victory.
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Uh, sure. They aren’t actually criminals until the shooting starts.
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True, but I wish he had expressed a better understanding of the whole problem than “bad guys steal guns from good citizens and commit crimes”.
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Where my mom lives somebody ran for mayor on a platform of firing teachers and replacing them with army vets. I’m not kidding. He lost but not by as much as you might hope and he’s super salty because the Republican that won is a woman. That’s a victory too though isn’t it? As humble as it is…
For real…I get angrier than you probably could ever believe about these things but even I have to say progress is progress however modest.
Perhaps I just do it to cope, but it helps.
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gun safety applies to a lot more than gun handling… safe storage, transportation, and transfer are all critical to keeping guns out of the hands who intend to use them in criminal acts. Sure, plenty of people who bought their guns for “self-defense”/etc. might also use their guns for criminal acts, but if you’re going to commit a crime with a gun the best way to get it is to steal it.
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Hey, it’s a start. Right…?
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Agreed. Maybe, like the abolition of slavery, little pebbles will start the avalanche rolling downhill. At least this statement coming from a gun dealer will carry more weight than from us bleeding hearts.
(Also, you’re a poet and you don’t know it.)
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And for having a conscience he will now get harassed and threatened by angry MAGAvolk.
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This is the part that gets me.
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Fuck his conscience, then. That’s no meaningful change at all.
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Waldman insisted he’s not pushing for greater restrictions on firearm ownership but is only advocating for more gun safety
You can’t have better gun safety without more restrictions in place
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One step at a time… let’s hope he’ll get there.
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I’m sure all the assholes who shot Black kids who knocked at their doors in “self-defense” didn’t see themselves as violent, racist murders, but that doesn’t change the fact that that is precisely what they are.
The whole ideology around “home self-defense” is built on white supremacy and fears of Black people. Nothing else.
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it seems to be a term of art
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Or maybe the quotation marks around “law-abiding citizens” were actually air quotes made by owner as he said it.
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