Add burn books to the list as well. Also add no funding for mental health as a sub-point for controlling guns. Heck if we go the other extreme we're looking at bankrupting social security within a decade as well, so add abolish social services except for the rich. Now we're getting somewhere.
The question is, which extreme is more livable for the majority of Americans. Which does the least harm and potentially the most good, as limited as that might be. We've already seen the mess trickle down economics has made of our social support structure which affects millions of Americans, but the counter point is we have seen a gigantic increase in billionaire wealth in that same time period. Extreme health care costs due to deregulation, but more money in the coffers of the medical industrial complex and big pharma.
In the end, since we are a 2 party system, it's almost always choosing the lesser of 2 evils. I'm just shocked how many see less money for billionaires and more services and support for the poor and middle class as "evil" in the first place. There's a huge cult movement in America, and that's it. It's been building for decades, but it is firmly entrenched now. Worship of the rich at the expense of the masses is the mantra. Trump is their destroying angel, bent on destroying the last vestiges of the systems that make societies strong in the first place, the fact that we willingly give some of our excess to help those less fortunate. But that's all shifted now. So yeah, let's talk about the evil of suggesting limited individual rights a little bit so we get fewer school shootings perhaps. We have limits on rights all over the place, necessary to support a functioning society. No other developed nation collapsed under extreme tyranny when they limited gun access, but they also have barely the tiniest fraction of mass shootings and violent crime we do. We lost sight of the fact that the rights were enshrined for a specific end, and that the rights themselves are not the end envisioned. But they have become holy to the point of sacrifice of anything else that supports a functioning society so we do not violate the sacrosanct "rights" the founders placed into the Constitution.
Remember, they also gave us an amendment process because they knew times would change, clear and present threats to them in they era would fade and change, and new threats would emerge. None of them had an inkling about anything akin to school shootings, but they gave us the amendment process so we could adjust as needed to address the threats of the time. But we are happy to bury our heads in the blanket of rights which in many ways is just no longer sufficient for what our society needs. How easily we lose the lessons of the past.
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