The gun control piece of the puzzle - and it is just one piece - is probably the easiest one to accomplish. The other two questions: Why do we have so many crazies and why are we so committed to glorifying violence are a lot tougher.
I cannot imagine that there are fewer crazies on a percentage basis in other parts of the developed world so we can look at the carnage here and point to the absurd number of guns laying around as a cause but the triggers do not pull themselves.
Yes, the mass shootings get everyone talking but it also distracts us from the daily count of 82 dead on average. If we lost 82 soldiers in Afghanistan in one day people would consider it a bloodbath.
So, I was astounded to see that even the NY Post - normally slightly to the right of the Vőlkischer Beobachter - ran this editorial.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/edi...sOCZkPJ1XP
But even the Post is guilty of ignoring the rest of the problem. There is something about this country - or this people - which makes us different from the rest of the civilized world and we had damn well better start to figure out what it is.
I cannot imagine that there are fewer crazies on a percentage basis in other parts of the developed world so we can look at the carnage here and point to the absurd number of guns laying around as a cause but the triggers do not pull themselves.
Yes, the mass shootings get everyone talking but it also distracts us from the daily count of 82 dead on average. If we lost 82 soldiers in Afghanistan in one day people would consider it a bloodbath.
So, I was astounded to see that even the NY Post - normally slightly to the right of the Vőlkischer Beobachter - ran this editorial.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/edi...sOCZkPJ1XP
Quote:Has technology rendered the 2nd Amendment to the US Constitution obsolete?
That is, has the application of modern military design to civilian firearms produced a class of weapons too dangerous to be in general circulation?
We say: Yes.
But even the Post is guilty of ignoring the rest of the problem. There is something about this country - or this people - which makes us different from the rest of the civilized world and we had damn well better start to figure out what it is.
