luvsJack
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Apr 3, 2007
I think that Americans have completely given up on this issue, which is why people just keep moving along every time this happens. The last one that really got to me was Las Vegas and that was partially because a few weeks earlier I was actually in that exact location and had also attended a street concert in another area where me and my family could have been used as target practice.
I try not to focus on it now because I know that nothing will ever be done about it. People don’t want to pay for healthcare let alone mental health facilities. They don’t want any restrictions on guns at all. This might change as younger voters become the majority...and they were last election cycle. But it will take years for the courts to catch up and help fix this, with the way our system is set up. I feel that we are doomed to endure this until the people who really want these things to change are in control. And even then...we are a violent nation, it probably wont change anything.
I don't think this is true at all. Not sure who "they" is in your post but all the "theys" that I talk to do want some kinds of regulations. They don't want to lose their right to bear arms but they do want some regulations on ownership. But there has to be a meeting of the minds, somewhere between "ban all guns" and "the wild west".
To say we are "doomed" is just a bit dramatic. No one is doomed.