Callinectes (03-31-2023), ExpressLane (04-01-2023)
Callinectes (03-31-2023), ExpressLane (04-01-2023)
"Hatred is a failure of imagination" - Graham Greene, "The Power and the Glory"
No, because I believe numbers and data. YOU are the one with all the "feels". You feel your gun is your safety blanket. You feel like bad people are all around you and you need to be prepared to shoot 'em up if needs be. You feel hatred. You feel fear.
And you feel a fetish for your guns.
Joe Capitalist (03-31-2023)
Lionfish (03-31-2023)
Getting back to the original topic....
We can confiscate all privately owned firearms. That would be very hard.
We can close all the schools. Looking at the comments on JPP, it almost looks as if we've done that already.
Or, we can realize that the above two possibilities are the only ways to do it,
neither of them is ever going to happen,
so we have to get used to shootings being a uniquely American way of life.
I did the latter decades ago.
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. Samuel Johnson, 1775
Religion....is the opiate of the people. Karl Marx, 1848
Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose. Kris Kristofferson, 1969
Republican Congressman Ken Buck:
“We’re at a time in American politics, that I am not going to lie on behalf of my presidential candidate, on behalf of my party. And I’m very sad that others in my party have taken the position that, as long as we get the White House, it doesn’t really matter what we say,”
Republican Congressman Ken Buck:
“We’re at a time in American politics, that I am not going to lie on behalf of my presidential candidate, on behalf of my party. And I’m very sad that others in my party have taken the position that, as long as we get the White House, it doesn’t really matter what we say,”
A sad commentary on we, as a people, and our viewpoint of our freedom can be summed up like this. We have liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans, yet those very people look at Constitutionalists as radical and extreme.................so those liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans must believe that the constitution is radical and extreme.
You clearly don't get the concept here. If boys don't have role models to follow, and women alone don't provide any real socialization for them, then they can grow up in a void that leaves them unequipped to become adults. It is no different than single parent households where only the mother is present. That to is a recognized issue in the causation of criminals.
Thus, many studies demonstrate that growing up in a single-parent family entails risks that jeopardize adolescents’ future life chances. Involvement in criminal behavior is another important risk factor for adolescents’ future life chances. Involvement in crime during adolescence is associated with negative life outcomes such as lower income, worse health outcome, lower well-being, and a higher probability of adult crime involvement
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full...X.2020.1774589
The Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency reports that the most reliable indicator of violent crime in a community is the proportion of fatherless families. Fathers typically offer economic stability, a role model for boys, greater household security, and reduced stress for mothers. This is especially true for families with adolescent boys, the most crime-prone cohort. Children from single-parent families are more prone than children from two-parent families to use drugs, be gang members, be expelled from school, be committed to reform institutions, and become juvenile murderers.
https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-li...crime-opposing
U.S. has world’s highest rate of children living in single-parent households
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tan...st-one-parent/
Research has shown that the lack of male educators in early childhood education is greatly influenced by the associations of early education with mothering and being “natural” for women, while men interested in the field were “unnatural” or deviants. However, having men in the classroom can create positive male role models for children, and redefine the idea of masculinity.
https://www.pacificoaks.edu/voices/e...%20masculinity.
Male teacher shortage affects boys who need role models
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...els/103585138/
The biggest impediment to it would be the cost. To unilaterally confiscate all or most private firearms and ammunition would require the just compensation of the owner for that. That would run well over a trillion dollars. It would literally be unaffordable, and the time and cost involved would probably double the cost of compensation. The government could not simply give some trivial sum either. That would go to court and be tossed immediately.
Are you that simple? We recognize that the gun manufacturers won. We add 20 million guns a year to your arsenals. The one simple fact is there are no guns being taken away. We will add more and more guns. We will have more and more school shootings and mass shootings. That is how you gun lovers want it and you won.
A sad commentary on we, as a people, and our viewpoint of our freedom can be summed up like this. We have liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans, yet those very people look at Constitutionalists as radical and extreme.................so those liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans must believe that the constitution is radical and extreme.
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