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Good comment about the political remarks, in the face of this horrific shooting, Michael.
While I am not a member of the NRA, I certainly am sympathetic to most of their positions. They are a valuable organization (they teach people the right way to handle a gun, for example). But now is not the time for political observations. We need to mourn the victims, and think of ways to try and prevent these things. Like building more mental hospitals. But even that can wait. It is surely the right time to think of the victims of this, and grieve for their families. When we forget that, our country is that much poorer!
My frustration is, as in the case of police reform/bad cops, it’s the Right that SHOULD BE leading the fight for common-sense fixes, but instead we retreat behind our partisan barricades and leave the reform movement to the bad guys. This case doesn’t appear to have a broader policy implication (machine guns are already illegal, this guy’s motives unknown at this point), but there are gun-ownership reforms that make sense, particularly in the area of mental illness.
It is good policy and smart politics for the Second Amendment advocates to lead the charge for these reasonable reforms, before the people who hate private gun ownership do something dumb.
This makes sense, Michael. That is why I said I was behind most of what the NRA says.