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"Common Sense Gun Legislation"

("Trigger Warning" to gun lovers, but at the same time, you may see some nuanced argument if you decide to read further.) Don't get too excited (either positively or negatively) about this post.  When it comes to guns, I don't know all that much.  Also, I am not an expert on current legislation.  What I am simply attempting to do now is come up with ideas of what, to me, "common-sense gun legislation" might be (as it really has no definition at all).  What I will do here is use my own common sense.  This comes not from using guns (as I have never touched a gun, as far as I can remember), but from playing (very poorly, in multiplayer, where I get destroyed) video games.  This would also include at least one or two VR games that I have played, where I have aimed guns in virtual reality with my own hands (although they did not have any weight to them, and their characteristics were based on game physics).  And the question becomes, "If I were playing a V

I Feel Used!

The Justice Department just indicted 13 Russian nationals who were caught indoctrinating the US public!  This is one of their social media posts/adverts, and I am ashamed to say that I ACTUALLY FELL FOR IT!  Those damn Russkies played me for a fool! When I saw this post, it just spoke to me in a way in which nothing else had.  I had never so clearly linked Hillary Clinton with Satan, and Donald Trump with Jesus before.  This post gave me that false impression, though.  I promptly sold my "I'm with Her" T-shirt and cleansed my body with holy water.  I held my rosary in my hand and begged forgiveness.  Then, I went to the voting booth and voted for Trump.  After all, I could not let Satan win. But now, I learn that it was Russians behind the whole thing!  Now, the evidence that Hillary Clinton was in league with the Prince of Darkness is not as water-tight as I may have believed before.  Now, I realize that I stood for everything that Hillary Clinton was standing for, a