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Like I said, YUGE population increases, YUGE increase in firearm ownership (number off guns, not necessarily people owning), death by firearms is so tiny it’s almost invisible. Mine are resting comfortably.
Walter is saying exactly what we all know, but doesn’t get to the reason.
The reason(s) are simple.
First off, people believed in God and assumed there was an eternal penality for killing someone else unjustly.
Second off, violent behavior towards authority was simply not tolerated.
And thirdly, we didn’t have a culture that promoted violence as if it has no consequences. People didn’t grow up playing hyper violent video games, or watching tv and movies that conditioned them to accept such behavior as normal.
Bingo. If people were civilized, citizens having guns wouldn’t be a problem. Unfortunately, we’re now living in an uncivilized country. Reminds me of a “zombie apocalypse”. Thank you liberals.
A discussion here a few days ago, among 70-80-year-olds, came to the same conclusion as Dr. Williams.
In almost every rural home, guns were commonplace, some hung on home-made racks above doorways, some were standing in corners of rooms, etc. Few were locked up and unavailable because they might be quickly needed to kill a predator animal threatening a child or entering a home. Sometimes, a farmer would come rushing through the door to grab a weapon to kill such an animal or predator.
Yet, with all that, few can remember a youth or child purposely using a weapon to harm or kill some other individual at home, or anywhere else.
The same can be said about knives. In rural areas, especially, just about every little boy and youth carried a pocket knife, but when disagreements flared, they led to fist fights--not cuts or shots.
Human nature was the same then, as now. Boys had fights over small and large disagreements, but they led to tussles or fist fights where some older person usually stopped or resolved.
What has changed?
Try pursuing this thought: when was the last time you heard a school official or adult explain to a child or young adult that one does not steal, or harm, or take something that belongs to another person--and give the reason as being the something called the Ten Commandments from God?
Never?
Then, that is probably because Liberals/Progressives, since the late 1800's have decreed that there can be no reference to God in the so-called "public square."
No God, no Ten Commandments, then, delivering a "request" to youth to not steal or kill can legitimately be backed up with only a "because I said so" response.
That response is not good enough to demand any seriousness, now is it?
in 1958, when I was in 7th grade, I brought a rifle (bolt action Winchester 22LR) to school 2 days each week. Tuesdays we had gun safety and Thursdays we had marksmanship. On any given day at least 10% of the students were carrying firearms. And nobody ever got hurt.
More Wisdom From Walter.
“I smell a hidden anti-gun agenda.”
Hidden? Hell it’s blatant!
I’m in your age range and you observe the past quite correctly. At this point in time I see the turning point as the defeat of Goldwater by Johnson in 1964. That was followed by way too much tolerance for anti-social and criminal behavior on a massive scale. Downhill ever since.
So true. I'm 60 years old and when I was in school the bad kids chewed gum and sometimes talked back to the teacher. The REALLY bad kids smoked in the bathroom. What a world we live in today...
In 1965-66 we would walk the halls of our high school in street clothes with our ROTC M-1s and no one paid any attention.
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When I was in high school in the mid-late 70’s, the school was open with doors unlocked until the custodians left around 10:00 pm. Come and go as you pleased.
And the thought of school security guards was unheard of.
Williams nails it, firearms have changed very little but many people are over the edge now.
Too many busy-bodies with their noses in other peoples’ business, with the retort: “Whadya need THAT for, anyway?!?”
The ONLY purpose for one group to want to disarm another is so they can force their will on the less powerful group.
bmk
In the old days people believed it when God said “Thou Shalt Not Murder”
Leftists dont teach that these days in schools (and even true believers of leftism know that leftists dont speak Truth anyway).