The mass shooting last month in Maine — perpetrated by an Army reservist allowed to keep his guns reportedly bought days before he underwent psychiatric evaluations due to his erratic behavio…
  • ZeroCool@feddit.chOPEnglish
    204·
    1 year ago

    This is like saying we shouldn’t offer driving classes because one day a student might get into an accident.

    No, it’s like saying driving classes shouldn’t be beholden to funding from the “Reckless Driving Is Fun Yeehaw Get-er-Done” club. You’re just flat out misrepresenting the article. Did you actually read the article? Because it sure does sound like you’re just replying to the headline.

      • ZeroCool@feddit.chOPEnglish
        163·
        1 year ago

        Without funding from the NRA those programs and facilities likely would not exist. I read this article for exactly what it is, a hit piece by anti 2A advocates to keep knowledge of firearms that does not fit their narrative from the public.

        If you’re so concerned about youth programs to teach children “firearm safety” maybe you should be paying for those classes and facilities to exist instead of the NRA. Did you even entertain that possibility for a moment? Don’t answer that, it’s a rhetorical question. We both know you didn’t and you wouldn’t.