Posted on 04/21/2007 3:57:04 PM PDT by freemike
New York-Mass public shootings have become such a part of American life in recent decades that the most dramatic of them can be evoked from the nations collective memory in a word or two: Luby's. Jonesboro. Columbine.
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rhetorical: Have guns become more available since the 60’s (the generation of peace and love) or have Americans become less respectful and mannerly?(also the generation of “do your own thing, man).
Unfortunately the pinheaded liberals came up with the wrong answers - one being gun control — which only made the problems worse and the bad guys bolder.
I notice that guns were easy to get back then, even up to the 1960s, like candy. One can get them in a hardware store. I notice gun control came because of the assassination of JFK, RFK, and MLK. A lot changed from the mid 1960s to 1970s.
Could it be that we have more gun control.
Before 1968 anybody any where could buy a gun through the mail with the only Question ask was the check good.
The people who commit mass murder want to get media attention. The availability of TV's in homes and nationwide networks to widely transmit breaking news stories live increases the incentives for mass killers and terrorists to commit their crimes.
“rhetorical: Have guns become more available since the 60’s (the generation of peace and love) or have Americans become less respectful and mannerly?(also the generation of “do your own thing, man).”
What the left and the media cannot report is that the biggest increase in anything relative to guns since the 1960s is the increase in gun regulations.
And like many things the that left seeks to regulate, the means never justify the ends in what they propose, because the results that accrue from the regulation seldom fit the stated ends that were sought.
The increased regulation of guns since 1960 is a perfect example of the insanity of liberals. Regulating “guns” does not reduce the number of “gun related” homicides.
Maybe we have more crazy people roaming the streets instead of being locked up.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Oliver_Huberty
Guns were a lot easier to get in the “good ol days.” Gun racks in the back of pickup trucks used to be every where. People used to leave rifles in the corner of the living room or in unlocked cabinets. You could buy guns through the mail, for crying out loud. Then lets not forget about the “wild west!” The libs try to have it both ways with the old west. The clamor about new gun freedoms will take us all back to the wild west,, yet, there were not mass killings back then.
The Liberals no longer wanted the Wild West, so they legislated in the Dangerous West.
Treat Them to a Good Dose of Lead (Why the 'Wild West' was not what Liberals claim-my title)
I guess MSM, employing the uneducated, lazy, and agenda driven (marxist moonbats) "journalists" they do, forgot that the worst school mass murder was way back in history, when a farmer, pee'd off that his farm was being siezed for tax arrears, found out that the county was building a new school on the money he had payed. So he blew up the school, killing 42.
Lots of crappy things more common than times part.
There may be some increase in 20th century violence, but maybe it is just to better reporting?
http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0070-3370%28199502%2932%3A1%3C1%3AEOETUH%3E2.0.CO%3B2-K&size=LARGE
Sen Christopher Dodds daddy and the GCA of 1968....
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Finding the Nazi Weapons Law whetted our appetite. We wanted to know who implanted this Nazi cancer in America. We began by probing the backgrounds of lawmakers who championed “gun control”. We focused on those whose bills became part of GCA ‘68. GCA ‘68 as enacted closely tracks proposals dating to August 1963. We felt that if the culprit were a lawmaker — or a congressional staffer — he or she would know Germany, German law and possibly even speak German. He or she probably would have spent time in Germany on business or during military service. Alternatively, if the culprit were not a member of Congress or a staffer, there would be testimony at the hearings to that effect.
Most potential suspects were quickly eliminated; they had no apparent ties to Germany. But one lawmaker caught our attention.
An old “Who’s Who” entry showed he had been a senior member of the U.S. team that prosecuted German war criminals at Nuremberg in 1945-46. Thus, he had lived in Germany just after the Nazi period. His official duties required him to look at Nazi records, including Nazi laws. In 1963 he led the effort to greatly expand the Federal Firearms Act of 1938.
We then got a break. We told a legal scholar of our findings. He was intrigued. He sent us an extract from the record of hearings held a few months prior to the enactment of GCA ‘68. At the end of June 1968, the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee to investigate Juvenile Delinquency — chaired by Thomas J. Dodd (D-CT) — held hearings on bills: (1) “To Require the Registration of Firearms” (S.3604). (2) “To Disarm Lawless Persons” (S.3634) and (3) “To Provide for the Establishment of a National Firearms Registry” (S.3637), among others.
U.S. Representative John Dingell (D-MI) testified at these Senate hearings on “gun control”. Senator Joseph D. Tydings (D-MD) chaired some of these hearings, in Dodd’s absence.
Rep. Dingell expressed concern that if firearms registration were required, it might lead to confiscation of firearms, as had happened in Nazi Germany. Tydings angrily accused Rep. Dingell of using “scare tactics”
http://www.jpfo.org/GCA_68.htm
“People used to live in closer proximity to their families and be more involved with civic and religious institutions. They were less likely to move from one part of the country to another, finding themselves strangers in an unfamiliar environment.”
Yeah...Moms and Dads used to actually live together with their kids. Dads worked and Moms policed the neighborhoods.
Abject helplessness is also more common since the ‘60s. Helplessness and mass murder go hand in hand. There’s a good reason that mass-murdering gunmen don’t pick NASCAR races, rodeos, firing ranges, military bases, or police stations to commit their crimes. They almost always pick gun-free zones.
Elementary school children used to carry guns out in the open riding their bikes.
Yep. Even into the 70's. I remember that at 16, I could walk into a hardware store and but a new shotgun for duck hunting season. All I had to do was show them my drivvers licence.
Teens drove around (in Pa's truck of course) with guns in the gun rack, stopped and shot ducks, plinked or whatever.
There wasn't as much crime then as there is now, and what crime there was didn't involve guns. Gun crime today STILL doesn't involve people with legal guns. Cho didn't have a legal gun;- had the judge followed the liberal rules, liberal "gun laws" that are on the books today- and checked a box 2 years ago when it was found he was a danger to society.
Had the students at VA had the same freedoms we had in the 60's and 70's, (and if you think we haven't lost freedom since then, you're either too young to know, or too old to remember) Cho wouldn't have been able to take a lunch break, mail a package to someone he knew at NBC, reload, and casually wander back into campus.
Correct! Just look at Carl Pazram who stole the Presidents Gun and used it to kill at least seven people.http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial_killers/history/panzram1/1.html Everything old is new again.
A lot of things have become more common since the sixties.
Single parent families (especially in which both parents are living).
We have become a more secular society.
Both parents work and the children are cared for by a non-family member. (kids in daycare for hours every day).
Some thing less common; Corporal Punishment.
Something less common; IN Loco Parentus. Teachers and the like are no longer permitted to discipline children in there care as they once where.
All of these things and more have shaken our children from there moorings. Is it any wonder that they have lost their ability to judge right from wrong?
The Gun Control Act of 1968 has made firearms less available and made many many more gun free zones making these types of mass shootings possible.
I agree with you completely. Thank Betty Friedan, for one.
No they don't. But you can be sure that every time guns are the hot issue, MSM will do everything it can except point out the truth.
Then, when a new gun law bill is passed, they will play a news story, a staged interview of some mother who's only child was killed in a crime by someone with a gun, and she will express relief that something is being done about "the gun culture" of the USA.
If I hear "gun culture" one more time, I'm going to puke. When is MSM going to report on the "Mohammad culture" that has crusades going on in just about every country in the world.?
In this incidence they also coincide with the beginning of the gun control laws. Liberals often like to say that gun owners want a return to the "wild west" days. Actually, that would be good because statistics show that per capita there were less rapes, murders, armed robberies, etc., then than there are now. Similarly, communities where there are large populations of gun owners there is less violent crime, not to mention that guns are used 5 times more to stop crime than criminals use guns to commit crime.
In 1967 I started college at Indiana University. Arrived at the dorm, and checked in my Browning Sweet 16 at the front desk.
When rabbit season started, I got on the campus bus with the cased shotgun and rode out to the IU golf course. Got off and walked out into the fields beyond and went hunting. Got a few and went back to the dorm and cleaned ‘em.
Nobody said squat.
Semper Fi,
Very true. The “breaking news” and bizaare movies and television shows contribute. As wierd as this may sound..I’m not sure that the human brain is too different from the hard drive of a computer. Violent images, be they real or contrived are imprinted on the “hard drive” in a human’s brain. Unlike a computer, they can never be erased.
So what the heck was wrong with Lassie and The Howdy Doody Show??
Why create a culture that validates violence?
The left were behind “overhauling” the criminal code in the 60’s. Crime shot up after that.
Last year I was looking through some old copies of American Rifleman and a late 1960s note caught my attention. Basically it talked about the constructive relationship between the NRA and the NEA regarding school shooting programs (the good, old type shooting programs, not mass killings). Things change quickly. It’d be nice if some reversals in this area could happen as fast.
Aren’t prescription drugs a factor in a lot of these killing binges?
The rest of the article varies from thinly supported speculation to outright contradictions to the facts in paragraphs nine and ten. If the AP had competence, they never would have published this. If they had any shame, they would be ashamed of this article.
But since the AP lacks both competence and shame, here this article is. Pity.
Congressman Billybob
***The left were behind “overhauling” the criminal code in the 60’s. Crime shot up after that.****
Years ago Reader’s Digest had an article on why Washington DC’s crime rate went up. It was when they began to release arrested criminals back on the streets “on their own recognizance”.
No one ever got hurt or ever misused a firearm
Guns are WAY less available since the 50’s and 60’s !!!
THAT is why crime is UP! Just like in England and Australia.
I think the word is more reporting
Prior to 1960 if you staged a mass murder it might get on the radio, that night's TV, the next day's paper.
Now it will be on TV within the hour, and stay there 24/7 for at least a week. Everybody will know about you.
The Old High School here also has a target range in the basement. School was built in the 1940’s.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
"Criminologist Fox speculates that the increasing popularity of workplace killings, and public shootings generally, may be partly due to decreasing economic security and increasing inequality. America increasingly rewards its winners with a disproportionate share of wealth and adoration, while treating its losers to a heaping helping of public shame.
'"We ridicule them. We vote them off the island. We laugh at them on `American Idol,'"' Fox said"
Interesting. What kind of gun? I think another problem is all this PC garbage. What happened to “After school” or “Meet me at the flagpole”? At least no one died and someone came out with some minor injuries.
Aren’t prescription drugs a factor in a lot of these killing binges?
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That is a lot of the problems, I feel.
http://www.medicinenet.com/depression/page5.htm
Tricyclic antidepressants (TCAs) were developed in the 1950’s and 60’s to treat depression. They are called tricyclic antidepressants because their chemical structures consist of three chemical rings. TCAs work mainly by increasing the level of norepinephrine in the brain synapses, although they also may affect serotonin levels.
If you check out Thomas Sowell’s book “The Vision of the Anointed” he shows that crime had been steadily decreasing for years before the 60’s Supreme court rulings that began giving criminals more rights and citizens fewer rights (all the court rulings and there impacts are listed in the book). Poverty had also been steadily decreasing for many years,, right up until the so called “war on poverty” began. We have been fed so much disinformation about history it is nearly a crime.
Also,, there is something to be said that,, when these things happened in the past,, It largely stayed local or regional. Now,, it is almost instantly around the world.
I remembrer that. Tried to keep it out of sight. Only had one guy come out _itchin' and sceamin' 'cause I was molestin' the squirrels, and another grounds keeper in a local golf course huntin' the waskewee wabbit. LOL!
No, guns have been less accessible since the ‘60s. But psychotropic anti-depressants have been MUCH, MUCH more accessible since the ‘60s and seem to be a recurring theme common to every mass shooting I can recall in recent memory.
The MSM has reported on everything about Cho’s guns but we have yet to have one of the idiots from the MSM report on what psychotropic drug Cho was taking for his depression. Was it Ritalin? Prozac? What?
most of these shooters would have been put in mental institutions before the 60’s...Now,their left to stew in their fantasy world and boom....
Side note about charles whitman..He left a note for medical community to check his brain..He said there was something wrong with him
he was right.After his death ,it showed his brain had a tumor and could have triggered his anger...
Prior to the Gun Control Act of 1968, all manner of guns were available via mail-order. You could even buy very large surplus weapons like the Lahti Anti-Tank Gun (for about $80 in the 50s). All that was required was to sign a form stating you were not prohibited by law from purchasing!
Soldiers regularly returned from WWI, WWII and the Korean War with "War Trophies" (including grenades and explosives).
The major things that changed were: Respect for Authority (of any sort) began to vanish; Personal Freedom was no longer balanced by Personal Responsibility; the Mass Media operated 24/7 seeking out the very worst sensational news and bombarding everyone with it; and, "Traditional Values" became quaint at best and fully discarded at worst!
Throughout mankind's history there have always been individuals who were totally void of morality and conscience. Such individuals often killed scores of others before being eliminated. However, today, one can be totally psychotic and KNOW that "fame" is but a heinous act away!
Our old school had a range as well. I remember a kid bringing a gun to “show and tell’ as well as high school kids bringing guns to the hunter safety class taught at the school.
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