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Another Mass Shooting in Texas
I have no idea what the solution is.
I mean, I do: intact Families and a culture that does not promote despair and rage.
But since that is not on the table, I have no idea. Taking away guns from citizens has never been shown to work in this nation. That seems to be all that is ever proposed.
Guns have always been in the hands of the people. Mass shootings are a sign of sickness in America as much as theft of AC parts. In the great depression, people did not rob infrastructure. We are sick and dying as a society.
Not enough people believe in anything but getting what is good for themselves or in hurting others because of their pain. It is the Republic of Rome in its last days.
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Don’t forget SSM. I don’t think we get to all this gender bending confusion without the notion that men and women are indistinguishable in marriage and parenting. Meh, makes no difference how you combine them.
I hope our state passes that but I would still recommend the NRA class. I learned a lot about state laws from the cops and lawyers who taught portions of the class.
Reflecting back, I think that the judicial legalization of SSM was a watershed event.
Our cities have the most restrictive gun laws, the least support for cops doing proactive policing, and the most crime. You would not have a similar experience in most of the U.S. a one size fits all law is not best for the US. Even the “Wild West” wasn’t as wild as portrayed on TV but then public hangings eliminated some of the threat and deterred others from becoming killers.
The slippery slope we were told doesn’t exist.
Americans set a lot of store in guns and sell a lot of guns in stores.
We like ’em. Cars too. And like cars they are freedom machines.
I will grant that it might be lovely if people didn’t feel the need for guns – if we really were safe and really could trust government to be prompt and just. But even if that were the case, it wouldn’t last.
Much as the US Navy and Coast Guard pilot armed boats so as to be ready to deal with armed smugglers and pirates, so do our citizens walk around strapped so as to be ready to deal with the same dangers (and worse) on a personal scale.
I recognize that different States and people can thrive under completely different sets of rules than ours, and if what you have in Ireland is working for you I truly give you joy of it. Certainly the main antagonist of the Irish is out of that business these days.
May you never have to reach for weapons you don’t have.
I don’t think it is good for girls, either ;)
Female teachers used to be the norm (I believe, without checking) in the old days, particularly American frontier, before education became professionalized. Back then however, everybody knew that men and women were different, and that boys and girls were as well. I’ll assume right up front that this involved some deference on the part of not only girls but women teachers to the short-range antics of boys, in exchange for respect for the longer-ranged antics of girls. My my, what an effective introduction to the way the world actually works, because of the way biology actually works.
It seems that there were more male teachers in the late 20thC than there are now, and certainly they were manlier. The herbivore men involved in teaching now (not all, but I bet any rough-hewn man in teaching will confirm this) might as well be women. A lack of men for boys and young men to look up to and model themselves upon (or vow their undying and implacable opposition to) is half of the problem with this country now. Fathers, teachers, bosses… all increasingly namby-pamby, and in no small part due to the growth of a smothering mother government.
Before the education is even considered, boys are already being failed by schools, and in fact, targeted for reduction to a sort of “defective girl” existence by the anti-masculine forces which pervade our institutions.
Women are not the problem (of course!), but feminization of culture is. Women don’t even get to be feminine anymore. But boys do. What the Hell.
YA THINK?
It also means that standards no longer exist, and not just on the now-indefensible series of hastily abandoned improvised defensive positons running tdown that slope. The only defensible ground was given, and now everything is just a matter of opinion, no harm to you, and you’re a bigot for standing up for a reality literally older than mammals. “Rise above” our animal origins? Might as well “rise above” our atavistic needs for oxygen and water.
No, by exposing people to a society in which even the fact of sex is meaningless, everything swiftly becomes meaningless — there is no solid ground.
Perhaps not – elastic has the ability to grow and shrink, while an indexed living wage will only ever go in one direction.
Most people don’t until a particular night.
Your Fooier-than-thou attitude is kind of off-putting.
Much better to have a loaded gun and not need it than to need a loaded gun and not have it.
I said “loaded” because, honestly, is there anything in the world more useless than an unloaded gun?
And you haven’t noticed a correlation between populations that are anti gun-rights (including here in the United States) and populations that support this sort of tyranny? The villainized ‘gun-culture’ in the United States is merely the natural manifestation of a culture that values individual rights more than an ephemeral sense of security-in other words, the alternative to a ‘gun-culture’ would be a ‘serf-culture’, and draconian laws in violation of basic free speech rights are a natural manifestation of such a culture (as are Woke policies and regulations on college campuses, which has metastasized into a full-blown mind-virus among those who lacked a prior intellectual or cultural commitment to liberty).
There was no reason for the state to recognize homosexual marriage as the same thing as heterosexual marriage. They aren’t the same thing.
G. Gordon Liddy always made a great big deal out of “gender” versus “sex”. He was right. Gender is only about language.
I detest the “not an inch” position of Democrats on abortion. I’m not a fan of the corresponding position of Republicans (whom I wholeheartedly support in every other respect, except maybe tort reform) when it comes to guns.I know that abortion always takes a life, whereas guns don’t. But the “cold dead hands” attitude leaves me cold.
So you keep saying. We get it. You object. You will change zero minds here. Anything to add?
My white-bread midwestern suburban grade school in the early 1970s had a rifle club that met after hours in the school gym to shoot .22s. I was maybe 4th or 5th (?) grade – if I look hard enough I’m pretty sure I still have my marksmanship certificates in a folder somewhere which would have the years on them. My older sister talks about finding brass on the floor during gym class.
The United States has one of the most progressive tax systems in the world.
And if you get just a small fraction of 1% of those prescribed who have homicidal thoughts to go with their suicidal thoughts, you can get an increase in mass shootings…
Um, Depression and homicidal thoughts are not really common.
But hey, if you want to advocate banning antidepressants because you think they might make a mass shooting more likely, go for it.
“not really common” does not contradict “small fraction of 1% of those prescribed”.
Where did I call for banning? Just recognizing there may be a link. Simply because something helps a lot of people doesn’t mean there aren’t negative effects too.
Everythin\g happens at the margins.
The use of SSRIs have been blamed for mass shootings in this thread. I am responding accordingly.
Down side is he will never have the joy of shooting skeet (or in the general direction of the clays) and will miss out on a great pleasure, shooting targets at the range.
Why? Carlton Heston was making a point, a very good point. One of the main reasons for the 2nd is to deter a corrupt government that would become tyrannical. Governments that aim to exercise that sort of authoritarian governance come after the guns so citizens can’t stop their tyranny. Heston’s message was if you want to come after our guns like that then we will fight to the death to defend our right.
Kids were taught gun safety and were safer around guns Today they are taught how to have safe sex.
You are right. I used the wrong word. My bad, was bitten by autocorrect and my cursive. I will fix it.
I said that they are overprescribed, not that they are useless or without merit.