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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Over 150 people in a dark gym for over 12 hours 
Talk about trauma. [/quote]

The UVA students were on lockdown for 12 hours so this isn’t new.[/quote]

Can you say a little more about why you posted this? [/quote]

Exactly. Why?[/quote]

To illustrate that school shootings and long lockdowns are not a one-off in the US, particularly when the shooter doesn't commit suicide or get shot by police. [/quote]

But they are much much more common.  This is stupid.

This is like the anti seatbelt morons back in the day.  BUT SOMEONE ONE DIES WHILE WEARINF A SEATBELT, SEE THEM THAR SEATBEKTS DINT WERK!

[b]The backlash to this is going to end up being a repeal on the 2nd [/b]because these children in the GOP couldn’t stop with the gun lobby money for 5 seconds.[/quote]

Which is exactly why I’ve come to accept and somewhat tolerate these shootings, because what I want more than anything is to abolish the second amendment.

At the risk of sounding callous and cruel, I hope these shootings continue on right up until we as a culture decide to eliminate gun owning. Because if shootings become less frequent over time, we will lose a lot of the public sentiment and inertia we’ve built up to banning guns. So as perverse as it sounds, if you’re someone who wants to get rid of guns, you need to embrace these shootings as a necessary evil. The end goal is what’s important. No great movement in history is achieved without pain. The civil rights struggle and LGBTQIA rights struggle are the most recent examples. People died to achieve those victories, and ending gun ownership is no different. Unfortunately more people will need to die to achieve that goal. [/quote]

Thanks for letting us know that you want more people to die in order to support your most cherished political positions.

I’m guessing though that you and your family are not among the ones you’re willing to sacrifice to achieve your “victory.”
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Because nothing worthwhile is achieved without sacrifice, unfortunately. I can tell you're very emotional about this, and that’s understandable. But you need to be more pragmatic in your outlook.

If civil rights protesters in Selma weren’t willing to be lynched and murdered, we would still be living under Jim Crow. If LGBTQIA persons hadn’t rioted at Stonewall, we’d still be living in world without rights. Every great societal shift requires a cost of lives. This is no different. These shootings unfortunately must continue in order to achieve the goal of a society without guns.

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Thanks for educating us from the safety of your parents’ basement. From that safe haven, you can sit cool, calm, and collected, studying the situation “pragmatically.”

Let me guess - once we’ve disarmed the great unwashed citizenry, it will still be ok to have an armed to the teeth government, led of course by Democrats? [/quote]

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