(August 13, 2013 at 1:27 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Other modern industrialized nations have found ways to deal with healthcare and education while we continually slide further into the abyss of allowing criminal corporations to rip us off.
Those other nations have similar problems relating to modern life but they do seem to be controlling two factors which mitigate the violence. One, they do not have as many religious nuts walking around loose and two, they have strict gun control.
I would look at your recipe for the US - which I do not dispute - and suggest that it is even more important to get the guns off the street here as we have so many fucking nuts walking around loose.
I agree, as a gun owner I have no plans to use it to kill people. However, guns are in fact enabling crazy folks to commit these crimes much easier. Granted, I would go to town in the mall with a claymore. I feel focusing on "guns" is not the means to solve the wider issue. Guns can be 3D printed now, and that will improve as time progresses. So outright banning guns will solve nothing but keep them out of lawful citizens. Now that argument is used by pro-gun advocates to forward their odd agenda. I however mean that in the most literal of terms, I feel the root the problem is with in the mental instability of this Country. With that the apperent denial that there is something seriously wrong.
I would be a televangelist....but I have too much of a soul.