An illustration of how difficult preventing mass shootings will be
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@Aqua-Letifer said in An illustration of how difficult preventing mass shootings will be:
And they should do the same with me because it's not like my opinions mean anything here.
Join the club.
Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace. – Mike Ditka
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@Catseye3 said in An illustration of how difficult preventing mass shootings will be:
@Aqua-Letifer said in An illustration of how difficult preventing mass shootings will be:
And they should do the same with me because it's not like my opinions mean anything here.
Join the club.
Our opinions here certainly "mean something" here.
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probablycertainly won't make any difference, in the greater scheme of things. But it's fun to speculate, right? -
It seems to me like a lot of people, myself included, would be more than happy for other people to make sacrifices, and stop doing the things they themselves don't like or have any interest in.
Maybe if everybody gave up something they really like?
I was only joking
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@Doctor-Phibes said in An illustration of how difficult preventing mass shootings will be:
Maybe if everybody gave up something they really like?
Confiscate the telephones.
Problem solved.
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@Catseye3 said in An illustration of how difficult preventing mass shootings will be:
@Aqua-Letifer said in An illustration of how difficult preventing mass shootings will be:
And they should do the same with me because it's not like my opinions mean anything here.
Join the club.
Nah. Nobody usually agrees with me either.
“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill
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@Doctor-Phibes said in An illustration of how difficult preventing mass shootings will be:
It seems to me like a lot of people, myself included, would be more than happy for other people to make sacrifices, and stop doing the things they themselves don't like or have any interest in.
Maybe if everybody gave up something they really like?
Lent has passed.
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Interesting read, with some historical perspective.
Williamson: Explaining the Gun Debate
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We do not have a gun problem. We have a social and spiritual problem.
Passing laws isn't going to change anything. Why do so many people think government is the answer, when it gets proven over and over again that government causes the problems, not just with crimes involving guns, but in every other aspect of life?
So a crazy kid runs out and kills a bunch of kids, and many think the solution is to punish the innocent people who only want to protect themselves and their families by violating their guaranteed rights. Yeah, that has worked SO well in Chicago.....
If you try to stop this that way, all you will do is disarm the law abiding citizens. Crazy people and criminals will still have guns. Good people simply won't be able to defend themselves against them. If you want to stop things like this from happening, you've got to address the cause of the problem. And as I said, it's a social and spiritual problem.
When I was in high school, it was common to see rifles mounted in the rear windows of trucks that students drove to school in. But it would never even crooks their minds to bring that rifle into the schoolhouse. Daddy would have torn their ass up when they got home from school. Back then, parents raised their children. They didn't leave it up to the "village" to raise their kid. Kids were taught right from wrong. They knew where to piss. Every kid knew based on his raising how to act. He sat in classrooms where he Ten Commandments were likely framed and hanging on the wall. They prayed and said the Pledge of Allegiance. They were taught VALUES.
Until we go back to teaching values, raising our kids, until we have a spiritual awakening, these kinds of events will continue, I don't care how many laws you pass.
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Back then, kids had a daddy.
