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article on the shootings and a cultural examination
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2012 Dec 18, 5:36am 7,316 views 12 comments
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Tenpoundbass
2012 Dec 18, 5:42am
Yes it's time for Liberal media censorship, while we up production of assault riffles for the just and righteous.
Movies, Music, Books and the Internet should have to be reviewed by Alec Baldwin before it can be released.
Yes it's time for Liberal media censorship
Is there one subject, at all, that you can discuss without resorting to your jackass knee jerk responses?
Don't take this personally, but you disgust me. Please "ignore" me.
121212
2012 Dec 19, 3:37am
CaptainShuddup says
Yes it's time for Liberal media censorship
Is there one subject, at all, that you can discuss without resorting to your jackass knee jerk responses?
Don't take this personally, but you disgust me. Please "ignore" me.
He can't help himself, he is very unstable. He see's conspiracy's and liberal agenda everywhere.
Tenpoundbass
2012 Dec 19, 3:48am
He can't help himself, he is very unstable. He see's conspiracy's and liberal agenda everywhere.
and skulduggery don't forget liberal skulduggery.
121212
2012 Dec 19, 4:04am
121212 says
He can't help himself, he is very unstable. He see's conspiracy's and liberal agenda everywhere.
and skulduggery don't forget liberal skulduggery.
Give me your adrresss I will send you your latest anti psychotic meds. You must be over 50, you say the most obnoxious hateful things, so I will send you your monthly "DEPEND" incontinence underwear..
The article had a lot of great points.
Here's one thing I keep going back to: Switzerland has a gun ownership rate as high as or higher than the US apparently but much less gun violence. Whats the difference? Could it perhaps be that Switzerland is a much wealthier country, per capita, with much less poverty? Is it the disparity and poverty combined with the fact that Americans are taught to idolize violence as a method of solving problems thats causing much of the issues, and its just expressing itself through guns and shootings because thats the most extreme tool we;re given?
Also, apparently murder by baseball bats is higher in the US than murder by guns. Is this true?
Bellingham Bill
2012 Dec 19, 9:03am
Could it perhaps be that Switzerland is a much wealthier country, per capita, with much less poverty?
That's part of it, yes.
We live in a system that drives people to be this crazy:
http://www.youtube.com/embed/y4gAyiCI9Eg
(somebody somewhere said he had lost his East Vegas condo of 19 years)
But the US has a very strong Bircher element to it missing in other places.
I read something about the psycho-social history of the Scots Irish who came here:
http://www.amazon.com/Born-Fighting-Scots-Irish-Shaped-America/dp/0767916891
not that but I think that's the same thesis.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Paranoid_Style_in_American_Politics
no shortage of this, even here on Patrick.net
Bellingham Bill
2012 Dec 19, 9:05am
Also, apparently murder by baseball bats is higher in the US than murder by guns. Is this true?
Maybe some particular type of gun, like shotgun, but not all guns:
http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/homicide/tables/weaponstab.cfm
No amount of taxpayer's money is going to make up for bad parenting.
That is basically nonsense in this context.
I agree with many of you that gun control is not the answer, though I also have to agree with Eddie Izzard: “They say that 'Guns don't kill people, people kill people.' Well I think the gun helps. If you just stood there and yelled BANG, I don't think you'd kill too many people.†So in the current milieu I don't any other short term fix other than to try our best to limit the tools, and besides those tools are designed to KILL PEOPLE in warfare, I really think they have no real place in our common day to day lives. I suppose perhaps keeping them locked at a gun range might be a solution, but we're not very good at sensible half-measures, are we?
This article is an exploration of the deeper issues facing our culture, ones that we most likely have to solve somewhat before fixes like gun control can be removed from the equation.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33352.htm