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Waiting can have a downside as well. The first thing the NRA will do after a shooting is call for a "meaningful discourse" and for all the facts to come togeth
by hitekker 11y ago
Waiting can have a downside as well.
The first thing the NRA will do after a shooting is call for a "meaningful discourse" and for all the facts to come together.
They stonewall for a few weeks, weathering the storm of emotion, and then hold a press conference saying that the tragedy would not happen if there were more guns everywhere.
I personally believe there's a threshold for immediate groundswell of action, but that threshold is nowhere near being met yet. As you said, it's largely speculation right now.
- puredemo 11y agoPosts like this seem to presume the NRA is wrong in their assessment, but I simply can't see 140 people getting slaughtered at a French concert had a few of them been able to fight back.
- hitekker 11y agoGiven my political bias, I used the NRA as my first example of stonewalling but I should have included the right-wing perspective as well so that we don't get too far off-topic.
- dang 11y agoWe detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10813963 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10813963 and marked it off-topic.