I'm not sure what to think about this one.
When strict gun control laws are passed, it doesn't seem to have a significant effect on gun violence. Based on that, I'm not a big fan of gun control laws. But I do recogonize that there are real problems that need to be dealt with here.
We obviously have a problem in this nation with gun violence and we need to start talking about it and we need to start talking about REAL solutions. This would mean looking at the real root issues behind gun violence and what we can do about them. Poverty breeds crime and violence and, obviously, is something we need to fix. Lack of mental health care is an issue, too, since a lot of people who could easily deal with their problems with therapy instead choose to resolve their problems with a shotgun.
The only solution I seem to hear from the simple minded Republicans is that here would be no gun violence if everyone was armed. No. If one kid in preschool is throwing rocks at another, the solution isn't to make sure both kids have rocks to throw. And as much as I hate to say it, we need them to cooperate because we aren't going to be able to deal with gun violence on a national level without both sides working together. Truth is, when almost 30 people were killed, most of them children, and your first concern is that your guns will be taken away, you are a horrible, disgusting excuse for a human being.
Personally, I'd love it if we looked at other industrialized nations with lower murder rates and do what they've done to get those low murder rates. I don't see that happening, though, not with the ultra-xenophobic aspects of the right who always want to do the exact opposite of what Europe does (even when it works).
And, sadly, I don't see anything changing. Not anytime soon, anyway. Obama won't be able to sign any laws without congress passing the law first and the Republican controlled senate is too stubborn to pass any kind of significant law that will help with these problems.
When strict gun control laws are passed, it doesn't seem to have a significant effect on gun violence. Based on that, I'm not a big fan of gun control laws. But I do recogonize that there are real problems that need to be dealt with here.
We obviously have a problem in this nation with gun violence and we need to start talking about it and we need to start talking about REAL solutions. This would mean looking at the real root issues behind gun violence and what we can do about them. Poverty breeds crime and violence and, obviously, is something we need to fix. Lack of mental health care is an issue, too, since a lot of people who could easily deal with their problems with therapy instead choose to resolve their problems with a shotgun.
The only solution I seem to hear from the simple minded Republicans is that here would be no gun violence if everyone was armed. No. If one kid in preschool is throwing rocks at another, the solution isn't to make sure both kids have rocks to throw. And as much as I hate to say it, we need them to cooperate because we aren't going to be able to deal with gun violence on a national level without both sides working together. Truth is, when almost 30 people were killed, most of them children, and your first concern is that your guns will be taken away, you are a horrible, disgusting excuse for a human being.
Personally, I'd love it if we looked at other industrialized nations with lower murder rates and do what they've done to get those low murder rates. I don't see that happening, though, not with the ultra-xenophobic aspects of the right who always want to do the exact opposite of what Europe does (even when it works).
And, sadly, I don't see anything changing. Not anytime soon, anyway. Obama won't be able to sign any laws without congress passing the law first and the Republican controlled senate is too stubborn to pass any kind of significant law that will help with these problems.
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"If you cling to something as the absolute truth and you are caught in it, when the truth comes in person to knock on your door you will refuse to let it in." ~ Siddhartha Gautama
"If you cling to something as the absolute truth and you are caught in it, when the truth comes in person to knock on your door you will refuse to let it in." ~ Siddhartha Gautama
