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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I guess it does not matter but this Scalia stuff is not right.  The Heller case said an individual could have a gun in their home for self defense.  That's all.  The DC gun law was shot down in the court of appeals and DC decided not to go the the Supreme Court.  Scalia and in fact no one on the court had anything to do with it.  Heller is a very limited ruling.  Just because we won does not mean we should turn into nutty Trump type people.[/quote]

You’re telling us that the Republican effort to flood the country with guns, Scalia, Koches (for votes), gun CEOs, NRA — this has nothing to do with gun crime?  Come on.

Scalia and the other Republican judges in Heller said that DC couldn’t ban handguns.  They *made that up*.  It’s “unconstitutional” because Republicans made up a new part of the constitution.

And that allowed a demonstrably non-cautious woman to carry a gun secretly around the streets of DC.
That puts every family in DC at some higher level of risk. Period.

This stuff isn’t hard. Why do people have to make such specious arguments about it?

Republican. Gun. Policy. Endangers. DC. Citizens. [/quote]

This country has [i]always[/i] been flooded with guns. Guns aren’t a new invention. They’ve existed for the entire history of settlement on this continent.

What’s new, is the acceptability and normalization of violence in our entertainment and popular culture, a tolerance in our court systems for violent criminals, and psychoactive mediations prescribed to so many as though they were TicTacs.

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That's just not true. It's a rightwing talking point, meant to excuse Republican oligarchs from their responsibility making our lives less safe.

What is the gun violence problem in America?

It's that gun identity politics gets votes for GOP billionaires.  
That's why Koch and the Koch network oligarchs donate to the NRA.  
It's why after a massacre of children at Sandy Hook, Republicans used the filibuster to block common-sense gun reform.

And Republicans lie to you about 'entertainment', 'popular culture', 'tolerance', 'medication' -- it's all a pack of lies. We are the LEAST tolerant Western country for that.  Just a flat lie. Deception. 
I don't know whether you're deceived, or you're one of the propagandists pushing the lies.  In any case -- you're helping put DC residents at risk to benefit GOP right people politically.[/quote]

Except there is demonstrative proof.

How many depictions of murder do our children see on TV and movies each year? How many R&B hit songs glorify violence? How many violent games are sold each year? These are all products of American entertainment culture. We invented this stuff. Right here. The rest of the world didn’t create it and foist it on us - WE created it. Similarly, examine the per capita rates of people who are prescribed SSRI’s or other psychoactive drugs in America compared to other countries. You cannot train children to grow up watching violence as entertainment, then put them on powerful medications, and expect that they won’t think violence is acceptable. Why are you so unwilling to acknowledge this blatantly obvious correlation? [/quote]

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