Posted on 08/16/2019 4:29:56 AM PDT by Kaslin
The Second Amendment is non-negotiable. It’s the glue that holds the Bill of Rights together. Benjamin Franklin once stated, “They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” I agree.
Whenever mass shootings happen power hungry politicians rush to microphones to exploit the dead and demand more gun control. But America doesn’t have a gun problem, we have a morality problem.
“Red flag” laws, which flip due process on its head, won’t stop mass shootings anymore than past gun control measures have. Laws address societal symptoms, but they can’t change one’s heart. Likewise, mental health patients are already concerned about the stigma that follows them. These laws will discourage them from seeking the help they need.
Let’s be rational, if gun control worked, gun related homicides in democratic cities like Chicago and Baltimore, that have the nation’s toughest gun laws, would be rare. But criminals don’t obey laws and there’s nothing we can do to stop evil and crazy people from doing evil and crazy things. If we allow bureaucrats to punish good gun owners by banning sport and self-defense rifles like AR-15s, what’ll happen when the next mass murderer uses a 9mm Glock, or a .38 Smith and Wesson revolver? They’ll ban those too! These laws are about control, not safety. If we’re not careful, the only guns left will be the ones criminals use to rob us with.
Democrats won’t stop until the Second Amendment is gone. They’re great at distorting facts and creating scary terms like “assault rifles,” and “weapons of war” to scare voters into submission.
Additionally, more handguns are used in mass shootings than rifles, a fact often ignored by the press. As for universal background checks, they already exist for new gun buyers and those same background checks are used at gun shows. The truth is leftists want to end private gun sales and stop parents from passing their guns down to their kids.
None of their ideas will stop mass shootings, but here are cultural solutions to reduce gun violence worth considering:
1) Reintroduce the 10 Commandments in public schools: Kids don’t know the difference between what’s morally right and wrong, good and evil and why objective truth matters if morals are subjective and arbitrary. When kids understand that there are immediate and eternal consequences for murder, because there is a God who watches above, we’ll see less of it.
2) Snitches should get rewarded: In the ‘hood and in jail, “snitches” are despised. This mindset has permeated society, and it’s one reason why “red flag” laws won’t work. Often people don’t snitch on a potential suspect for fear of retaliation and because they’ll be ridiculed by their peers. That’s why gun violence is so prevalent in inner cities where gangs and drug dealers are plentiful.
3) Digitally desensitized: Violent video games contribute to the desensitization to violence that we see in our kids. But, so do cell phones! I’m not in favor of banning either one. I prefer parental supervision. Today, social media and video games are raising many American kids. Look at how mean, disrespectful and bold kids are on Twitter. I’m convinced that Antifa is a tech revolution as much as they are a fascist revolution. Kids today lack human connection. They’re detached from reality and real people. They can’t handle disagreement because they can be as nasty as they want to be online without consequence or compromise. Mass shooters are a physical manifestation of digital courage left unchecked by real people in their lives.
4) Promote fatherhood: A father, mother and child are the ideal family unit. Although an intact family isn’t possible for everyone, we should encourage our kids to marry and make babies. When you consider that nearly 75 percent of black babies are born out of wedlock, it shouldn’t shock us when poverty and incarceration rates are high, and education isn’t as esteemed in black and minority communities. Dads matter! They impact their child’s self-esteem, intellectual development, independence, courage, social development, spiritual life, respect for the opposite sex, their ability to resolve conflict, and the list goes on.
Single mothers should find a safe, mentally healthy and stable male role model for their kids, excluding boyfriends. Preferably, a grandfather, uncle, fiancée, leader at church, sports coach, etc.
5) Expose “violent” juvenile offenders: Criminal records for people that were violent juvenile offenders should be considered when they want to purchase a legal gun as an adult. The Parkland and Dayton, Ohio shooters both had sordid pasts as youths. You don’t need red flag laws to recognize when individuals are mildly, moderately or severely mentally ill. If they’ve been professionally diagnosed as bipolar or schizophrenic, don’t sell them a gun. Also, make their criminal history publicly available, including to gun store owners. If former juvenile offenders aren’t diagnosed as bipolar or schizophrenic, and they’ve been productive, non-violent citizens for a length of time predetermined by the courts, restore their gun rights.
6) Arm yourself: American citizens use guns approximately 2 million times per year to defend their lives or prevent a crime. Why isn’t this ever reported? It simply doesn’t support the media narrative that guns are bad. The truth is, guns are used 7 to 8 times more for good purposes.
Reducing mass shootings requires a recognition of America’s moral failures, not more gun laws. The next heartless and evil mass shooter has already obtained a gun, legally or illegally. I’ve decided that I want to be armed to stop him. If you want to be a sitting duck, go ahead.
#4 will never happen so long as the divorce/child support industry continues to roll along. The gov’t, politicians, psychologists, big pharma and attorneys sleep on a big pile of cash every night by the system kicking dad out of the home on mom’s say so, then raiding his wallet and/or making mom and kids dependent on gov’t programs.
I fully agree with your comment.
A common sense approach that would make all Americans safer.
But that’s not really what liberal politicians want, is it?
and the Supreme Court says:
“The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered as the palladium of the liberties of a republic; since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers; and will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over them.” —Justice Joseph Story (1833)
The only viable recommendation is #6. We need MORE guns and in the hands of good citizens trained to use them. Had there been just 2 or 3 armed citizens in that Walmart. . .problem solved.
"If stricter gun laws worked, gun related deaths would be much lower in big cities."
Very strongly agree. I was a new teen when GCA 68 went into effect. Been watching the downhill slide ever since, and wondering why people like me get blamed for it. I like guns. I like to shoot them. I like to clean them. I like to reload for them. I like to modify them. I have never shot anyone. I’ve been a shooter for 60 years. Started when I was four. Do not want to shoot any person. Though I won’t rule it out, under the right circumstances. Defense of life and liberty, among others.
I think the video game angle is a conversation worth having. I’m a pretty avid gamer, mostly older stuff. I was around when Doom hit. People older than 40 understand a video game is a video game. When you transition from lets say PacMan or Super Mario Bros to Doom, you had some context,for lack of a better term.
What I’m getting at is, I can’t pretend to get into the mind of a millenial who has spent all his gaming life playing nothing but shooters. I can’t imagine what damage that can do to your psyche, exclusively shooting realistic humans all the time with hyper accurate weapons. This obviously doesn’t turn everyone into killers, but it’s worth exploring.
We have to blame video games and all sorts of “other things” because we are not allowed to notice certain things.
#5 and #6 are doable. The others, as much as I wish they were, probably are not doable.
The number of people shot and wounded in “mass shootings” is trivial compared to ordinary, run of the mill Saturday nights in Chicago.
That’s probably true of Baltimore as well but it takes a few more Saturdays than Chicago. Then therre is Africanized Philadelphia and Washington DC
In video games, kids are conditioned that you respawn after you ‘die’ and so do the people you shoot.
Also you get shot and there’s no pain, just your health meter drops ... until to ‘die.’
That cheats reality with the impression it builds.
If you start with #1, there would be no need for any other numbers. Everything else would fall into place. Removing God and prayer from schools is the root cause. Do a fishbone analysis, and I think this would be obvious.
Betsy DeVos needs to get off her elite ass and DO SOMETHING constructive.
#5 seems relevant.
The muslims coukd get this done in a heartbeat. Why can’t Christians?
If you look at most of the people that commit this BS, you'll find all kinds of contradictions. Some from the left, some from the right, some ultra liberal, some conservative, some just completely mixed up. But there is one common thread that is true in every case:
None of them have had any kind of successful long term relationship with women.
Before you jump me on that point, do a little research on these actors and you'll find out it's true.
The liberal infestation of our society has spent nearly 50 years doing their best to make sure that there will not be successful long term relationships between men and women. What exactly these idiots think will be accomplished by this insanity is beyond me, but it is also true.
As a very redneck friend of mine commented a few years ago after a suicide bombing in Iraq, “a guy that's gettin some on a regular basis ain't going to be so quick to get blown up.”
A very crude way to put it, but absolutely correct. And I don't think you'll ever hear this fact discussed in the media.
Own or have a gun.
Know how to shoot. If you don’t know how to shoot, then your gun is just an expensive club. Also, you might shoot the wrong person.
If you don’t own a gun, you are part of the problem.
The single most important measure to be taken would be the closure of public schools and the elimination of all compulsory education laws. We should simply stop kidding ourselves that "government" is the solution to every problem we face.
Betsy DeVos is actually doing or trying to do a lot, but she is getting no support (except from Trump, so far) and is even trailed around and harassed by leftist flakes following up on Obama’s instructions to “get in their (Republicans) faces.” And of course the teachers’ unions hate her and block her at every step of the way.
One thing that I think would help both schools and society as a whole would be to stop tolerating this harassment by the left. Police are not allowed to enforce the law against Antifa rioting and harassment, or even against black rioters, teachers are not allowed to control or protect themselves against violent students, leftists are allowed to stalk, harass and even assault GOP officials both in their homes and in public places, etc. This creates an atmosphere of lawlessness and results in a society marked by permanent, irrational anger and a tolerance for personal violence. This is bound to “trickle down” to people who are mentally or emotionally unstable and will act on it.
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