'Gun supporters and expedient politicians who take NRA, firearms industry, and other military/industrial complex big donor money while expressing heartfelt prayers—are disingenuous, disgusting, and deserving of maximum shame.'
Citizens are waking up to the fact that so many politicians can be so easily bought by the weapons industry, an industry that doesn't care how many people must die to protect their huge profits.reports that after a record year in 2020, gun sales in the U.S. dipped slightly in 2021. Still, with nearly 19 million guns sold, 2021 was the second-highest year for gun sales in the U.S.—behind only 2020, when estimated gun sales topped 21 million.
Gross profits increased 96 percent over the April to June timeframe. They were up 98 percent in the January to June period. The large number of weapons in the USA is not only highly profitable for the weapons industry, but also further supports the myth that guns are necessary to maintain the image of 'rugged individualism.' This is why resistance to legislative proposals to better control gun culture and gun violence itself seem to many gun owners as attacks on their own personality and national identity. The bigger, more powerful the weapon, the more powerful the gun owner feels.
*"Total gun deaths in the United States average around 37,000 a year, with two-thirds of those deaths being suicides, leaving approximately 12,000 homicides, a thousand of those at the hands of the police. The Second Amendment, written by James Madison and adopted in 1791, says"a well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." Although generations of activists, gun owners and jurists have disagreed about how this should be interpreted in a modernizing world, what has not been recognized is what the Second Amendment was really to be used for.
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