Why do conservatives get defensive about guns whenever a mass shooting happens?

[Anonymous]

[Anonymous]

Because it’s an uncomfortable position to be in. It’s harder to assert your individual freedom in the face of a tragedy that likely wouldn’t have happened if private gun ownership didn’t exist. I’m a gun owner myself with a concealed carry license but I’m well aware that maintaining this freedom means a lot of people are going to die for no good reason at all. Guns are an absolute scourge on this country. The problem is, the only way it works is if we round up all the privately owned firearms. The legal market feeds the illegal one. Until that day comes, I need mine for protection. I’d gladly give it up though if everyone else did.

[Agape93]

Because they know the knee jerk reactions society has for like the next 3 weeks.

[BeMuse]

They aren't getting defensive. They are asserting that they have unalienable rights which means that they are not transferable to another or not capable of being taken away or denied. The fact that you keep repeating the same strategy of carrying out mass shootings as a strategy to try to revoke unalienable rights just shows you don't understand the meaning of unalienable. Did you really ever think you'd get a different result by repeating the same strategy over and over again?

[Lliam]

Because the gun control lobby and liberals immediate start howling for more idiotic gun control measures that won't work.
Gee, I can't imagine why anyone would be defensive about being stripped of their rights.

[NaultD]

It's more like the NRA sees an opportunity to sell more guns. "Government taking your guns away buy them now before they are gone!" Buy buy buy. Every mass shootings ringing that bell like pavlov's dogs.

At this point more driven gen z who gone through mass shooting drills since kindergarten are just now getting in government offices. I do see an abandoned generation being bitter about being sacrificed to those guns.

[MementoMori777]

Cause I don't trust rely on police with my family's or my own life, when they take my guns it's like forcing me to rely on police when in the reality they will arrive to just clean up the mess.

[MementoMori777]

That's if course not counting on the fact that the government can enslave you when you are defenseless, the 2nd amendment was created to protect us in case our government turns on us, that's a very important right.

[Anonymous]

Same reason worthless piece of shit leftists whine about taking them away. Especially Since the left are the party of racism, fascism, and stripping Americans of their rights. And the fact that nearly every single shooter has been a leftist from a single mother home.. Leftists love criminals way more than us law abiding citizens.

[VikingWarLord]

They know it's most likely a Government Psyop Campaign to take guns

[ChillaxingLove]

Because every time it happens they blame it on gun availability and they complain for more restrictions. so it’s a cat and mouse game.

[Anonymous]

Yeah, yet another MASS SHOOTING in a RED state with loose gun laws… I wonder why?

[Lliam]

Seen the shooting stats in Democrat controlled states/cities with the strongest gun control measures lately?

[Anonymous]

For the same reasons liberals erroneous blame guns everytime a shooting happens. Just politics (unfortunately).

[Pterodon]

Because liberals want to disarm us and take away our rights