daddy1gringo wrote:A little different perspective on the gun-control issue. Actually I posted this back in 2008. I re-post it here with just a few minor edits for clarity.One person shows his statistics proving that more relaxed gun control lowers crime, the other posts his stats proving that it increases gun deaths. There’s probably some truth to both. What we’re missing is the underlying social and political issue. Whatever segment of the population feels that they can’t trust the government to protect them, or that it’s the government from which they need to be protected, wants their own guns.
Certainly, this is all true, I think. Don't forget hunters and collectors as gun enthusiasts too, though I suppose many times they fall under one or the other.
A troubled justice and penal system quickly returns violent criminals to society unchanged, except that they are more hardened and bitter, and more trained in crime.
This is absolutely a very serious problem. America's justice and penal systems are frankly disgusting.
The DCF can take your children on an anonymous malicious accusation.
While this can still be a problem, I do believe that this particular situation is improving a great deal. The biggest problem here is that the state Human Services folks are usually pretty overwhelmed by their caseloads.
Candidates for the Supreme Court are summarily dismissed by a sufficiently large liberal block in the Senate if their religious beliefs lead them to the pro-life stance held by approximately half the population.
The same thing happens in the other direction with other issues, of course. This certainly isn't a liberal problem.
The “RICO” organized crime laws are brought to bear on peaceful demonstrators because of a few wackos who commit violence against abortion clinics, creating a situation where “an 80-year-old grandmother praying a rosary on the sidewalk is now a gangster.”
When was the last time something like this happened to a peaceful abortion protestor? I'm not saying it doesn't still happen...I'm honestly ignorant of it.
Again though, this certainly happens in the other direction, as we saw with the Occupy Wall Street protests. This is hardly a "only conservatives" situation. In fact, this is more of a "protection of the citizens" problem than it is a situation outside of abortion clinics, as this individual is attempting to portray.
As a teacher I could be fired for mentioning my beliefs in class, but if I were so inclined I could rattle off an entire class period about the spirits in the rocks and trees, because that is “multi-cultural” and “environmental.”
This REALLY isn't true. You could be fired for the second instance just as easily.
Deal with these issues, and the demands of many to have assault rifles, without the government's knowledge, will subside.
I don't see what the statement above about the Supreme Court Justices' abortion stances or the teacher firing have to do with the demand for assault rifles, to be honest. Those both seem like chasmically large leaps, really.
Honestly, I believe that if we were to correct our justice and penal issues, this would make the most difference of ANYTHING POSITIVE in our entire society.
more Americans voted for a Democratically controlled house by over 2 million votes,that is not what the American people ended up with though. So the American people overwhelming reelected Barack Obama,and They voted for a Democratically controlled senate. You tell me if that is one set of ideas being rejected by the public.
