RT @RachelBitecofer
Imagine watching your children be hunted down one by one with an AR-15 after asking your drunk neighbor to stop shooting so your baby can sleep and you'll have a good sense of what it's like to live in Red America these days.
@CGHildebrandt So you're painting millions of people with the brush of a homicidal maniac?
The terrible and tragic experience of one household is in no way "a good sense of what it's like to live in Red America these days" and this kind of fearmongering and othering of people is actively harmful to our society.
@LouisIngenthron
Perhaps you have not been paying attention to the half dozen or more murders in the last week. The ones where legal gun owners got angry and just started shooting.
This IS what it is like. I am near tears every frakking day when I send my son to school because a bunch of pig ignorant fools continue to be manipulated by a Russian owned propoganda mill.
The NRA has not been a legit organization since the 80s at least.
@akashicbunny Yes, the NRA is bullshit, on that we agree.
But no, that's not "what it is like". Most of us live our entire lives without being involved in a violent altercation with a gun. There have always been, and will always be, a few crazy murderous assholes in society. That's the nature of human genetics and mental illness. If you're "near tears" sending your kids to school because of that, then I honestly don't know how you function in day-to-day life.
