Posted on 01/10/2011 8:12:31 PM PST by EnjoyingLife
As a professional news reporter, my newscasts are almost nightly filled with instances of gunfire in my local community. Wherever you are reading this story, somewhere in your area of the world there has been enough violence to make you cringe and ask the age-old question of "why?"
There seems to be an atmosphere of "in your face" high-pitched disagreement in our country. You need only to turn on some television reality shows, purportedly showing real people in real-life situations, to see arguments and disagreements have reached such a boiling point.
Much of what goes for television and movies entertainment centers on violence.
In our own lives, we are inundated with moments of incivility. If there is no violence, there is widespread disrespect for the other person who shares the road or sidewalk with you. Incivility runs the gamut from car drivers who crank up the volume of their radios and sound systems to the point their music disturbs those who are several cars away, waiting on the traffic light to change.
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Excellent depiction of the ongoing slaughter against innocence.
I agree with you, drugs, sex, abortion, homosexuality, the rampant narcissism, ect... these are symptoms of the disease, not the disease itself.
I thought poverty was always the root cause of violence and every other evil, hence the need for redistribution of wealth.
But wait: the Right Wing stands in the way of redistribution, and the Right Wing has championed the evil Capitalist sytem that led to the poverty. Soooo . . . the Right Wing is the true root cause of violence and of every evil known to man. Yeah, that’s the ticket.
Blacks make up ~12.5% of the population and account for about 50% of the murders in the US. Violent crime among the white population is very low. San Jose CA, for example, is as safe a city as you'll find anywhere in the world.
If unrepentful sin is a root cause of violence, are whites more repentful of their sins than blacks?
I don’t buy the images of violence. Look throughout the world, our children basically grow up insulated. I will agree on the breakdown of the traditional family and quite frankly the liberal mentality of zero responsibility.
Activist judges have caused more anger and frustrations in politics. Look at the Civil Rights Act of 1965. Though it took time, and blacks had to wait, atleast the law was passed by Congress, and endorsed as a Constitutional Amendment with the full intent of the law documented by its authors. Today very few Americans would contend that it was shoved down our throats. Contrast that with Abortion where the SCOTUS ruled it by using convoluted legal logic when such rights did not existed and per the US Constitution such issues were suppose to be determined by the states. If abortion rightist wanted it, they should have gone thru the same process as the Civil Rights activists. At that time many abortion rights advocates knew they did not have the votes to go thru a constitutional amendment process. The legal maneuver only infuriated the opposition. We see this every day in the US where judges using activists logic overturn laws/referendums passed by majority support. If politicians want to calm the political climate, rely more on elections to resolve issues and use the original intent of the founders to establish legal rulings. These are more solid basis to argue for or against and forces advocates to develop a popular support for change that ultimately will be codified in the US Constitution with documentation for the intent of the law for future generations to make decisions. Right now activism has created chaos and more frustrations that is detrimental to the stability of the US.
For the usual age-old reason: defending oneself against something that represents a threat to one's survival.
Particularly in America where most people want to be unhindered in earning a livable wage and doing that "life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness" thing.
The social network thing has gone too far to the extreme with Facebook and stuff that let's people live in their own little like-minded associations and develop a horrible cases of "group-think".
Needs to be repeated over and over.
LIBERALISM
CORRECTION:
...stuff that lets people live in their own little like-minded associations and develop horrible cases of “group-think”.
(I hate when I do the it’s/its typo...)
Thank you. The world would be a different place than it is now, if abortion was never legalized. It’s destroying our nation daily, 2-3 thousand babies (and mothers!) at a time.
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