Posted by Tina
The learned and logical Dr. Williams makes a common sense case that guns are not the reason for all of the violence and murder in America and he gives us a much needed history lesson in the process.
(Do yourself a favor, after you read the article take a look at the biography of Dr. Williams linked above. He’s a well grounded human being with a remarkable life)
This from the article:
Those and other historical facts should force us to ask ourselves: Why — at a time in our history when guns were readily available, when a person could just walk into a store or order a gun through the mail, when there were no FBI background checks, no waiting periods, no licensing requirements — was there not the frequency and kind of gun violence that we sometimes see today, when access to guns is more restricted? Guns are guns. If they were capable of behavior, as some people seem to suggest, they should have been doing then what they’re doing now?
A good question!
Hint…as Dr Williams so wisely suggests, it isn’t guns or gun violence that plagues America. So I ask you, when will we get serious and begin to address the ooooozing rancid morality problem in America?
Facts are facts. http://www.amazon.com/More-Guns-Less-Crime-Understanding/dp/0226493660/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1380652168&sr=8-3&keywords=gun+violence
On a different note, I think you kids should bite onto this and give it a good shake …
Anxious nations sucking at the teat of US foreign aid smirk —
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/world-politics/around-the-world-many-look-at-possible-us-shutdown-with-anxiety-and-a-few-smirks/2013/09/30/429780aa-2a05-11e3-b139-029811dbb57f_story.html
One of the key problems is the media. We have mass communications that leads to notoriety and influences weak minded people. The media gives too much publicity to killers.
Notoriety has always been a motivation among a certain group of killers.
The other problem is the lack of character building that comes from single parent household and/or the embracing of situational ethics found in government schools.
Then there is the entitlement people. That group engenders class warfare and foments jealousy, hate and violence too.
We also have the race-baiters where almost none existed 100 years ago. They do their best to cause unrest, bigotry, hate and violence and exploit every opportunity for all its worth.
There are many things that exist today that simply did not exist over a 100 years ago because people back then wouldn’t put up with it! Some may call this progress, but it sure isn’t social progress! We’re going backwards socially and morally. We’re seeing the end result of a lack of moral character and maturity that made our ancestors successful and built this nation. There’s no way government is going to legislate that – they can ban all the guns and it won’t improve the character of problem people one bit!
Excellent point. Over the past five to seven decades social progressives have influenced society with their “forward thinking”. During the same period more of more of our children have taken to swimming in the toilet: drugs, shiftlessness, dependency, flash mobs, killing, thievery. Turns out the Great Society’s not so great.
The time for a radical shift is upon us.
Tina the day we demand more from our citizens is the day we will get it, until then expect more back sliding. We demand more of society by being absolutely intolerant of certain blatantly evil things. For example, being a a three time loser (felon) or worse is enough chances…they should be gone! If the crimes don’t rise to an execution, then permanent deportation ought to be mandatory. There’s plenty of African countries that could use some laborers. They won’t take any guff either, they mess up over there and they will be taking a dirt nap forever.
Regarding Pie @2: W-O-W!
I’m sorry but this needs to be repeated in print on PS:
Quite the indictment on this administration’s reckless, agenda driven ways.
Swift and certain consequences.
What you describe is thought of as cruel by the more sensitive types but it’s an important part of creating certainty in the public mind.
In a country without the rule of law what you describe can become worse than cruel…we aren’t suggesting placing tires around anyone’s neck and setting it afire!
But in a nation of laws what you describe is simply a social fabric that provides brick wall certainty…a set of agreed upon boundaries.
Good parenting requires that boundaries be set so that children learn what is acceptable and what is not acceptable. The boundaries can be relaxed as the child demonstrates acceptable levels of maturity.
As a society we have removed all barriers…are there any? I mean really, are there? What do kids today not see or hear all around them? Parents who try hard to raise responsible kids today have little support in the community.
Too many kids are growing up wild and without restraints of any kind. Is it any wonder addiction, std’s, aids, murders, and other crime are rampant?
Is it any wonder mothers murder their own kids…teachers have sex with their students (and then receive support from fellow teachers in court)…or…that kids beat up on old folks just for fun?
I wonder what people would think was the most cruel… keep on doing what we’re doing and that means locking up more and more of our citizens, especially minorities, until we can’t afford to lock up anymore and chaos reigns? Or we get tough now with the worst of worst; we execute and/or deport a few tens of thousand hardened criminal preditors so we may have a new begining? This would be culture with fear and respect for the law, leading to a more productive and peaceful society?
“Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.”
George Bernard Shaw
“Individually, we do not bear arms because we are afraid. We bear arms as a declaration of capacity. An armed man can cope, either in the city or in the wilderness, and because he is armed he is not afraid.
This is the root of hoplophobia. The hoplophobe fears and, yes, hates us because we are not afraid. We are overwhelmingly “other” than he, and in a way that emphasizes his affliction.”
-Jeff Cooper
If my old brain will allow I want to commit those quotes to memory…thanks RHT
You are most welcome. Not that I’m trying to make your head explode, but here is another favorite—
“We are ever confronted with two kinds of pain: the pain of discipline, and the pain of regret. You can avoid one, but never both.”
John Farnam
How bout I relieve Jack of the burden and, a la Farenheit 451, commit that last one to memory…it’s a good’n