Gun control: Ignorance & deception

[baldeagle]

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A very well written article that nails the salient points.

[RoyGBiv]

How do you fix THIS?

IMO, THIS is the root of the problem..

Our culture is becoming coarse, inhibitions are evaporating, honor and pride are fading, shame has disappeared, restraint is a distant memory, thug behavior is glorified in rap (I refuse to call it music), self-indulgence is the new normal, instant gratification is the national lifestyle, boundaries are no longer visible, respect for others is passe, casual violence at movie theaters is our modern version of the Roman Colosseum and video games teach kids slaughter as a practiced skill.

Taking comfort in personal responsibility, self-reliance, integrity and accomplishment through hard work has taken a back seat to the counterfeit glitter of a brief flash of fame.

The mentally ill have so many rights we can do little even if they appear to be dangerous, but when someone carries out a perverse plan to end their existence in a blaze of murderous glory, knowing their foul deeds will be spread worldwide in hand-wringing hysterical hi-def technicolor by a media seeking to fill hundreds of channels around the clock, we blame the gun.

Adult complexities do not satisfy the liberal urge to make even more rules for us to live by.

[mamabearCali]

How do fix it permanently? One family at a time. One person at a time. Choose for yourself to not patronize movies that glorify out and out violence. If you are blessed with a family let them see you sorrow not gleeful at insane violence. Choose honor, integrity, and maturity for yourself, then help your children to choose best.

In the mean time speak truth, call childish behavior of adults out. Call people to a higher level and expect it. Be loyal to the promises you have made. This battle will be fought and won over generations not overnight. But we have to stand in the gate now too. Know the enemy, and do not give your children to him.


We have a choice set before us life and death, blessing and curses. Choose life my friends!

[RoyGBiv]

How do you fix THIS?

BTW, that was a rhetorical question.

[mamabearCali]

Ok then.....but if we want this society to continue, fix it we must. Else we turn into a hobbsian nightmare where robber tribes attack each other and life is violent brutish and short.

[JALLEN]

Justice Janice Rogers Brown, who was a California Supreme Court Justice before being conformed to the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, observed:

Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible. -- Justice Janice Rogers Brown

[Liberty]

I was thinking San Fransisco/Oakland Detroit or Chicago.

[Kythas]