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Message: [QUOTE="fletchdad, post: 3921121, member: 65205"] There are many people strong enough, brave enough, loud enough (choose your adjective..) to take a stand, and many are and have been. Many more are being active and vocal now more than ever (even though that is always the case immediately after a tragedy). The problem(s) is very deeply rooted in the American culture and will not be easy to change. If - and hopefully when - it does change, it will be a very long and arduous process. One of the major problems is the attitude: "If guns are outlawed, then only outlaws will have guns". This is also sadly a legitimate point, in that there are so many guns, even if there was never another one sold, and all "good" citizens gave up all their weapons, the amount of guns still available would be a staggering amount indeed...... The situation has been allowed to mutate to the stage where there is no way to control who has what, and banning or limiting availability will not show any significant reduction in violent guns usage for a very long time. Good people are afraid to not have guns because so many bad people do. This, sadly, can be a very legitimate fear, depending on where you live. And exactly this fear is going to be one of the hardest obstacles to overcome, (even among people who actually have no reason to fear), because the NRA, et al ad nauseam, will continue to abuse this fear, and many people do not realize the manipulation, nor do they understand the need to resist such. So, yes, there are many who are standing up as I type this, but that is - as the Germans say - only a small drop on a hot stone.... [/QUOTE]

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