RE: Another gun thread...
January 11, 2013 at 6:25 pm
(This post was last modified: January 11, 2013 at 6:35 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
We have a murder epidemic, if you want to call it an epidemic. It doesn't matter whether or not it's knives, or bare hands, or ak-47's. It isn't the fact that they did -it- with a gun that's the problem, but that they did -it- to begin with. I don't know how many times Ill have to mention this, but rates of murder, suicide, and violent crime appear to be independent of the prevalence of any particular lethal mechanism. IOW, you could write prohibitionary gun laws until you were blue in the face - and the problem will remain. The prohibitionary gun laws that only very recently lapsed did jack shit to begin with. Murder rates and violent crime show correlation with social, economic, and political factors - not gun ownership. Legislation has already been tried - and didn't work-. -Why- it didn't work is fucking obvious...they didn't even try to ban the right goddamned guns (nor are we focusing on the types of firearms used in the crippling majority of crimes even now) - and banning them doesn't appear to actually help anyway.
Call me crazy, but if you see a problem and you want to address it, perhaps we should propose something that might actually address the problem we have? Perhaps we should propose something that hasn't already been shown to be ineffective?
Aggressively prosecute criminal violations of current gun law, close loopholes within those laws, and invest in the poverty stricken segment of our population for whom shooting a fellow citizen is actually a good business decision.
Call me crazy, but if you see a problem and you want to address it, perhaps we should propose something that might actually address the problem we have? Perhaps we should propose something that hasn't already been shown to be ineffective?
Aggressively prosecute criminal violations of current gun law, close loopholes within those laws, and invest in the poverty stricken segment of our population for whom shooting a fellow citizen is actually a good business decision.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
