Re: Another Mass Shooting: It's Those Darn Video Games!
And one should be very clear of the ACTUAL motive of these scare tactics- it's to make more money.
The gun industry made out like train robbers when President Obama was rumored to be taking guns. Every time there's even a tiny hint of anything- gun sales go up. Even better, by making excuses, prices for ammo has gone up a LOT, too- I listen to my gun friends here at work about that complaint all of the time. Last time I checked, there's no actual reason for this price increase, other than a "shortage"- which is another way to wind up people and fear- making the price hikes a whole lot easier to just lay on the consumer.
When the NRA became a gun makers lobby, this whole conversation turned into what it is right now. Where the unthinking want to portray this as a "bothsidism" BS. Totally ignoring the actual history of the NRA and that they actually lobbied for gun controls.
This is all about greed. And using fear to feed that greed.
Just like many other arguments. Like for roads, and for schools, and for prisons, .......
What sucks here is that the greed does lead to people getting killed by instruments designed 100% to kill people. And that's all they are actually good for.
Funny how the last 50 years- we've been regulating safer and safer stuff for so many other items- electronics, homes, cars, power plants, etc... And the NRA had just lobbied for deadlier and deadlier stuff.
Originally posted by Handyman
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The gun industry made out like train robbers when President Obama was rumored to be taking guns. Every time there's even a tiny hint of anything- gun sales go up. Even better, by making excuses, prices for ammo has gone up a LOT, too- I listen to my gun friends here at work about that complaint all of the time. Last time I checked, there's no actual reason for this price increase, other than a "shortage"- which is another way to wind up people and fear- making the price hikes a whole lot easier to just lay on the consumer.
When the NRA became a gun makers lobby, this whole conversation turned into what it is right now. Where the unthinking want to portray this as a "bothsidism" BS. Totally ignoring the actual history of the NRA and that they actually lobbied for gun controls.
This is all about greed. And using fear to feed that greed.
Just like many other arguments. Like for roads, and for schools, and for prisons, .......
What sucks here is that the greed does lead to people getting killed by instruments designed 100% to kill people. And that's all they are actually good for.
Funny how the last 50 years- we've been regulating safer and safer stuff for so many other items- electronics, homes, cars, power plants, etc... And the NRA had just lobbied for deadlier and deadlier stuff.
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