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RE: Are Citizen-Owned-Guns a Problem?
Those numbers are staggering!!
When it comes to gun control and policy, I doubt people and politicians will EVER agree.
As for the suicide numbers, that is leaving me speechless.
The thing is, people are going to kill themselves regardless of whether firearms are available or not. My father in-law used a horse tranquilizer to kill himself. Texas has one of the most armed number of citizens and research has shown that armed citizens are some of the most law abiding people.
Well.... Yes, as the Japan #'s testify.
I truly believe it is a cutural-morals, and ultimately but more-so, a faith issue.
You can't tell people "any and all behaviour is fine(ie looking at porn)." Then tell them in the next breath that grabbing ass is bad. They are both bad. But when the culture tries to say "Fine" then "not fine", their is a struggle there.... In conscience and Truth. They, in their current cultural form, are not reconcilable.
My "porn/sexualHarrassment" example is just one of a plethora that post-modern or post-post-modern culture have tried to present and reconcile......when, they are not reconcilable.
This leads to significantly increased drug use(pharma and street) AND ultimatly, suicide. Drug use to numb the brain against this fight for Truth. Suicide for when the answer is "life, as it is, sucks; and I haven't found or can't accept what would make it right(ie faith in God)"