Pat
Supporter
Better questions to ask are: can the government prohibit me from protecting my home and loved ones, even if I have been prescribed an acne drug that may have demonstrated to rarely produce depression and erratic behavior? Can the government determine that because I have had an ugly, emotional divorce that I am not allowed to protect my home as I see fit? Can the government determine that since my child was pictured in Facebook holding a weapon that I am an unfit parent and not only should my weapon be seized but my child remove from my care? Can the government determine that as a military veteran who has served in a combat zone, I should not be allowed a weapon in case, as a senator recently put it, "I might suddenly snap"? Can the government require my physician to report that I am depressed over the loss of a child and the government subsequently raid my home and confiscate any weapon found? And finally, just supposed I am a sadistic, rage filled murderer and my brilliant attorney, Jeff Young, gets me acquitted on a murderer charge. Can the government require Mr. Young to disclose his belief that I am in fact guilty, criminally insane and should not be allowed to have a weapon?
As I have mentioned before, comparisons to pornography, crying fire in a theater or walking onto an airplane with a gun are absurd and a fool’s errand. The issue with the favorably DECLINING death rate by guns continues to be suicides resulting from the abysmal state of proactive mental health and the overwhelming gang/drug related murder rate.
Lanza and Newtown are comforting distractions. They allow us to take refuge in the fantasy that homicides in America are the work of the occasional serial killer practicing his evil craft in one of those picturesque middle American small towns that always show up in murder mysteries or Stephen King novels. They fool us into thinking that there is something American about our murder rate that can be traced to hunting season, patriotism, support for a balanced budget and perverted Tea Party demonstrating mothers. The pretense that there needs to be a national conversation about rural American gun owners is a dishonest and cynical ploy that distracts attention from the real problem that Mr. Obama and politicians like him have sat on for generations. It also detracts from the fact that our economy is failing and the future sadly is certainly one of continued decline.
We do not need to have a conversation about the NRA, "racist" middle age white guy gun collectors or rednecks hunters on reality shows. We need to have a conversation about Chicago, New Orleans, Baltimore, Philadelphia St. Louis, Oakland and why murders go unsolved, criminals, already prohibited from owning guns murder each other with legal impunity and local governments ignoring the real issues. Why are gun show gun sales to be policed when unregulated guns are readily available in any inner city ghetto in exchange for some quick cash or some dope. And why inner cities like Detroit have a worse murder rate than Colombia. If New Orleans were a country, it would have the 2nd highest murder rate in the world, beating out El Salvador. Chicago’s murder rate rivals Rwanda, Sierra Leone and Zimbabwe. To achieve Chicago’s rate, African countries usually have to experience a bloody genocidal civil war or decades of tyranny, (which some would argue, it has) and so we refuse to see that our major cities are in the same boat as some of the worst trouble spots in the world. Instead we have pretend feel-good solutions that result having dad get a police and mental check on his hunting buddy before he sells him his Mossberg will solve anything other than the left being able to punish those on the other side of the political spectrum and feel oh so good about it. Meanwhile more bodies pile up in our inner cities.
You eliminate gangs, enforce current laws -even if the ACLU accuses you of "profiling", aggressively address the dangerously mentally ill, proactively prevent suicides and you eliminate 90% of the gun violence in the U.S. period; everything else is nonsensical blather.
As I have mentioned before, comparisons to pornography, crying fire in a theater or walking onto an airplane with a gun are absurd and a fool’s errand. The issue with the favorably DECLINING death rate by guns continues to be suicides resulting from the abysmal state of proactive mental health and the overwhelming gang/drug related murder rate.
Lanza and Newtown are comforting distractions. They allow us to take refuge in the fantasy that homicides in America are the work of the occasional serial killer practicing his evil craft in one of those picturesque middle American small towns that always show up in murder mysteries or Stephen King novels. They fool us into thinking that there is something American about our murder rate that can be traced to hunting season, patriotism, support for a balanced budget and perverted Tea Party demonstrating mothers. The pretense that there needs to be a national conversation about rural American gun owners is a dishonest and cynical ploy that distracts attention from the real problem that Mr. Obama and politicians like him have sat on for generations. It also detracts from the fact that our economy is failing and the future sadly is certainly one of continued decline.
We do not need to have a conversation about the NRA, "racist" middle age white guy gun collectors or rednecks hunters on reality shows. We need to have a conversation about Chicago, New Orleans, Baltimore, Philadelphia St. Louis, Oakland and why murders go unsolved, criminals, already prohibited from owning guns murder each other with legal impunity and local governments ignoring the real issues. Why are gun show gun sales to be policed when unregulated guns are readily available in any inner city ghetto in exchange for some quick cash or some dope. And why inner cities like Detroit have a worse murder rate than Colombia. If New Orleans were a country, it would have the 2nd highest murder rate in the world, beating out El Salvador. Chicago’s murder rate rivals Rwanda, Sierra Leone and Zimbabwe. To achieve Chicago’s rate, African countries usually have to experience a bloody genocidal civil war or decades of tyranny, (which some would argue, it has) and so we refuse to see that our major cities are in the same boat as some of the worst trouble spots in the world. Instead we have pretend feel-good solutions that result having dad get a police and mental check on his hunting buddy before he sells him his Mossberg will solve anything other than the left being able to punish those on the other side of the political spectrum and feel oh so good about it. Meanwhile more bodies pile up in our inner cities.
You eliminate gangs, enforce current laws -even if the ACLU accuses you of "profiling", aggressively address the dangerously mentally ill, proactively prevent suicides and you eliminate 90% of the gun violence in the U.S. period; everything else is nonsensical blather.