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Sorry for Hijacking but I needed to take out the trash.
Name: Abe Froman from Pennsylvania Bowsite Handle: "Atheist "
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If those FBI stats are correct, common sense tells me that the problem is not the amount of guns available.
If criminals know more people may be packing, that will deter them...not in all cases but it will overall. How many police stations do criminals attempt to rob? How many Gun Shows do people get mugged at? Common sense is rapidly becoming rare.
Stupid people
Targeting the tool (gun) is the ultimate fool's errand and lends much credence to the adage "not seeing the forest for the trees." Ultimately, it is the human element in the equation that is the key to "gun violence."
Guns are not new to America, and even the now-infamous AR-15 isn't a johnny-come-lately. The key question not many seem to be asking is "what's changed?"
Incredibly, the answer to that question is very easy but also very painful-to a segment of Americana at least:
-The breakdown of the traditional family unit, perhaps no more in evidence than in the black community
-The breakdown of the moral fiber of this country
-The breakdown in general of "respect"; most notably respect for life, respect for others, respect for private property and especially respect for the rule of law
-The devaluation of human life; when life is reduced to a matter of convenience to the point where it becomes a disposable commodity we have lost a piece of our collective soul with repercussions both immediate and far into the future. We have raised a generation (if not 2) who have become desensitized to the grim reality that abortion has become a highly popular practice of birth control and a willing abrogation of the concept of personal responsibility.
We have become a nation where the tail wags the dog; normal behavior is now forbidden (the normal working out on the playground of youthful male aggression) and the abnormal has become normal (don't like your gender, pick the one that "feels" right)
So of course we blame the tool (gun); it removes the necessity to accept that we (the collective we) are the problem and the culture we've allowed to bloom is the ever-ready accomplice to the fall of the modern-day Rome.
The former merely requires demagoguery; the latter hard, real-world choices and shoveling the PC-gone-mad mindset into the dumpster of history.
The first step in solving any problem is identifying the problem.
This isn't rocket science.......
