And so it begins

You know how Republicans have consistently blocked the CDC from investigating the root causes of gun deaths and the safety, or lack thereof, of keeping guns in the home? We don't have data that we desperately need, because of Republican fealty to the NRA.

One thing I'd like to see--a child (yours or someone else's) dies from a gun in your home, you should be charged with involuntary manslaughter as well as reckless endangerment. It's not an "accident," any more than if you left a bomb in your garage with a big red button on top.

What we have to do is de-fetishize guns. Gun love is a sickness, and there's definitely a sexual component to owning a substitute penis, er, gun. A gun is a tool used to kill people. I can't even imagine, except maybe on an intellectual level, how or why that would turn some people on. But it does. Oh, how it does.

Most European nations, Canada, Australia, and many others have grown beyond the gun love stage. They have matured, and gun deaths are MUCH less common in those countries than here. I think that people not dying "trumps" Cowboy Bob's gun fetish.

And before anyone brings it up yet again, the Second Amendment refers to the collective right of the people to form a militia, not for Tucky Buckford to amass an arsenal in his basement.

 Where is the written PROOF for this statement? ---"You know how Republicans have consistently blocked the CDC from investigating the root causes of gun deaths and the safety, or lack thereof, of keeping guns in the home?"

You can easily look it up yourself. I'll give you a hint: the law has been around for quite a while. It is actually ILLEGAL for the CDC to research gun safety.

But just so you know--I'm not obligated to supply YOU with written proof of anything. I might do so for others, if they ask politely, with the probable exception of Boiler, Tom, and Charles. I would endeavor to supply PROOF to DonDiego or Candy. But any remotely informed person knows what I'm referring to in this case.

You long ago forfeited any right to be talked to as if you were reasonable.

Show me the law you have made up - the thing about liars is they never produce proof.

No. Find it yourself. I don't give a rat's ass what you call me. If you were the slightest bit informed, you'd already know about the law I'm referring to--or you would have the skills to look it up.

You apparently are able to scrape stuff out of Facebook's ass. A two-minute Google search would find what I'm referring to---you have the ability to do so.

There is no such law. Liars never produce proof.

Would marches against the senseless shootings accomplish anything? No.

Have the recent protests against police murder and brutality accomplished anything? Yes.

But don't worry, by next year there may be some relief. The "legal" Indiana gun dealers who provide guns to the criminals just over the border in Chicago may feel some heat from new federal laws to restrict such things. Once we give gun dealers a few life sentences, maybe we'll get their attention.

Better yet, how about giving a few gun toting criminals life sentences?

Yeah, I don't know anything about the "Republicans" reference.  Don't send proof.

I'd have to go back to the article again for specifics, but there have been prosecutions and penalties including jail time when children were maimed or killed by carelessness/negligence. 

In his post of 1:05pm 22 June, above, Kevin Lewis opines:" . . . the Second Amendment refers to the collective right of the people to form a militia, not for Tucky Buckford to amass an arsenal in his basement."

The Cornell Law School Legal Information Institute disagreees:

"In the 2008 case District of Columbia v. Heller, the Supreme Court held that the 'Second Amendment protects an individual right to possess a firearm unconnected with service in a militia, and to use that arm for traditionally lawful purposes, such as self-defense within the home.' "

Ref: Cornell Law School