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[quote=Anonymous]For somewhere between 100,000 and 195,000 years, homo sapiens sapiens evolved with males hunting and protecting and women being protected so that the next generation could exist.

Sometime in the 20th century, someone decided weapons ownership wasn't normal or desirable.  Despite that fact that most people who were murdered in the 20th century were murdered by their own governments.

Yes, I'm being provocative.  But it's true.

More facts.

Over the past 100 years, accidental death by firearm - children, adults...has gone down dramatically.  You can find these statistics yourself, google is your friend.  The statistic is without controversy.  Swimming pools kill more children in America every year than guns.

What isn't a fact is the trope/myth/legend that there is an epidemic of 'gun violence" killing children.  There isn't, despite a few statistically anomalous and heart-rending stories and events.

There are a lot of young African-American males killing one another, largely over criminal activity, drugs, gangs.  When "children" is defined as up to 17, or up to 21 or 25...

We don't have a gun problem in America.  We have a problem with broken culture(s). We have problems with crime, poverty, prenatal care, poor education, diminished opportunity, culture of entitlement, the useless war on drugs.

The same people who want you to believe - as an article of faith, emotionally, passionately, as an emblem of your identity, your sophistication, defining yourself against the rednecks and hillbillies in flyover country...are the 1%, those who want the borders opened for cheap labor upon which America runs, those whose wealth grows itself, those who have bodyguards but want you disarmed...who want you happy, content but not too content, whiling away your weekends recreationally shopping for Chinese-made goods and watching trash reality television and bad movies that recycle plots or remake other bad movies while what rights you had drift away into nothingness...nothing to see here, citizen...move along.

Your husband is on the right track, but he doesn't know why or what it means.  He just knows, intuitively, the difference between freedom and slavery.

Do you?

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