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Gun Control Reform Activism

tblue

(16,350 posts)

1. Right!

Reply to Moonwalk (Original post)

Sat Mar 23, 2013, 02:28 PM

Mar 2013

There is a 'blame the victim' instead of the bad guy in almost everything (poor people, uninsured people, overweight people, gay people). It's not right and we should call it out for what it is, as you have here.

I don't want a gun. I don't want to kill anybody intentionally or accidentally. But I want to live without fear of gun violence. I do my part by not supporting the gun industry and not buying what they sell. How the hell am I the one who is to blame when people get shot? (Not just me "me." That's a collective "me.&quot

It's crazy-making. You're right.