RE: The BIGGEST Problem is American Gun Culture [dTube]
Thank you, for this, @davidpakman. Living in Florida, I’m watching the coverage of latest highschool shooting with a mounting sense of frustration/ impotence.
Incredible that it seems sane to talk about arming teachers and having more drills at school, instead of banning assault weapons, finally!
When did we decide that our right to bear arms was more important than protecting the lives of our children? Something must be rotten in the Divided States of America that children are mimicking adults this way and taking the war to schools.
I know this would not be tolerated if it were immigrants or Muslims behind this. How much longer, as a public, will we continue to defend the indefensible, how many more innocent deaths?!
Heartening at least to see the courageous student movement, daring to speak truth to corrupt power. Enough with the NRA already and the national insecurity about protecting ourselves!
Here’s a post of mine where I explore the spiritual dimension of America’s gun problem:
And I would say that the right to bear arms is not being threatened at all. 97% of the U.S. population supports restrictions on assault weapons. No one needs those. Not deer hunters, not people protecting their homes. Get them off the streets. And keep the second amendment as well. The first amendment has plenty of such restrictions. It's common sense.
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Thank you, @donkeypong for that truly heartening statistic! I did not realize so many Americans support restrictions on assault weapons (truly relieved to hear it). You're absolutely right about no one needing those—we're not at war, here, why turn streets/schools into battlefields? I do hope that sanity will prevail, this time, and that the Will of the American People will be heard re: restrictions.
People can literally build these guns at home, you know that right? This is 1950's technology we're talking about, and the same guns in the hands of Governments have been used to kill millions. Maybe They are the ones you should consider disarming.
"When did we decide that our right to bear arms was more important than protecting the lives of our children?"
@yahialababidi, we have the right to bear arms so we can protect our children – against mass shooters, invasions from hostile forces, and tyrannical governments.
I understand some people think a society without guns will be a utopia. That's just not true. People who want to kill others will find a way (read: mass bombings).
Should everyone have a gun?
No.
Owning a gun is a responsibility to yourself and others, and anyone who wants one should be properly trained first.
Most people who say "assault weapons should be banned" are irrationally fearful of these types of weapons, and have little to no training in how violence situations unfold and how to handle them.
Guns are guns.
Killers don't need assault rifles to go on a killings spree. A single action rifle can kill just as many people as an assault rifle (and the shooter will be more accurate with a single action than with an assault rifle).
I don't even like guns. I wish everyone just got along and loved one another.
But since we're not living in an ideal world, it's important that those of us who want to protect ourselves (and others) are able to do so.
And those who don't want to protect themselves take the time to get educated on the realities of violence. Then they'l be able to understand that there are good people (your neighbors and fellow human beings) who own assault weapons because they want to protect people like you when you're unable to protect yourself.
You consider freedom and rights a disease? Someone drank the kool-aid...