Tallcal should know what really the truth is if he actually spent time in Africa, I did and saw what can happen to a disarmed population. But I will get to that later.
The article is a good one, it illustrates one important thing – we must be told in rather nice terms (wolves, Sheepdogs and sheep) about the real world.
What I find troublesome is the attitude of others with firearms. Maybe I am closed minded and have been exposed to too much in my life to side with people who seem to live in a world that they think that laws will protect you, they don’t.
I grew up with firearms; my entire family (extended) grew up with firearms. My cousins grew up with a loaded shotgun propped up in the corner of the kitchen and other relatives had rifles and handguns available to everyone. The funny thing is that not one of us every even considered that firearm as an item to use in an argument and no one has ever been shot accidentally throughout the many years.
Why is this issue a problem since the late 1960s?
How can we as a society from the turn of the century to the late 1950s could be so inept to allow unfettered access to firearms, in some cases explosives and automatic weapons to everyone?
Wouldn’t you think that with the accessible firearms during the first 60 years of the century that we would have so much crime and bloodshed in the streets that we would cease to exist as a country quickly with the anarchy going on?
See I already know the answer to this but a lot of people don’t and many believe that only the ‘protectors’ should only be armed. Those who choose to say that we need more gun control laws, less accessible firearms and a lot of other c**p have never seen what an unarm population can face.
What I find intriguing is the mind set that firearms and poverty are the root causes of crime. If this was true, going back to the first 60 years of the 20th century, wouldn’t the depressions of 1907 and 1929 cause a lot of crime for those times? You would think so by these so called experts, but in reality those two events did not cause a huge crime increase (meaning killings and shootings) but the opposite occurred. Petty crime was up, but capital crimes went down.
Same with the 1950s, a time of bigots and racism throughout America. I didn’t read that there were mass killing taking place or school kids getting shot because they were a different color. Yea there were other things but even with the access to firearms, we didn’t have any thing like today.
I really think that the late 1960’s was the real pivotal time for us to lose some of our rights and have society change for the worst. I clearly saw at that time the irresponsibility being espoused by the ‘hippies’ and the failures that this would lead to. Many think that I am full of it but think about what happened to being responsible for ones actions or paying for a crime that you committed – that all went out the door as a result of this 60’s c**p.
I feel parents play a part but I strongly feel anyone who is a parent is to blame for the schools, not just a few parents. No one wants to change anything, they all complain about it because their kid is doing good and has decent ethics, many parents tolerate the schools and their actions to shape kids into the image they feel is right – forget the parents.
We have entered into a society that we are forced to accept things, HipHop culture, Gays, Goths (I just love these guys and sooooo glad my neighbor moved far far away and rather have had a gay couple next door), the ‘urban’ culture and a whole bunch more. We watch as our children are desensitized to the point that a real gun is a toy, not a weapon (I mean playing video games and watching TV) but are sensitized to others feelings and trained in what I call a precursor to the thought police. As a side note I was surprised that a friend’s kid went to an autopsy only to find out what real blood and guts were about – boy she was really sick for a week (the point is she thought it would be like on TV). I told her my experiences and she threw up – boy am I mean!
One of the things since Columbine is the over sensitivity to weapons (or what is deemed a weapon) by the school in school. What a crock of s**t some of this has turned out to be. A first grader taking a butter knife to school to spread jam on her lunch and having to be expelled and having to go through a tremendous amount of pain and suffering because of it. How d**n stupid! (That was an actual case by the way.) The administrators making rules and bad judgment calls with weapons but ignoring the real problems, like bad teachers etc..
As for columbine, we could never stop that – it was planned out and executed by two determined kids who for the better part never really had a life. Columbine was a product of the no one ever fails, no one should every feel left out, everyone is special, words and thoughts hurt others, let’s not tell the kids what the world is really about type of education in public schools today. A suggestion that Leo had about the teachers and parents will never work, it is not even close to a solution as is prosecuting a first grader for possession of a butter knife. I feel that with today’s teachers in general, they would have to analysis the situation, call the union to ask their opinion and than see if there is an administrator who will make a judgment call. Parents, no way will some of these parents pull the trigger on little Johnny or Janey just because they are spraying the cafeteria with an AK47. Venturing to guess many people will hesitate because this is a child, even though a child with a weapon who will kill you.
So I know I am boring all of you, so here is my final comment;
There is a real reason why our founding fathers decided to allow an armed population, just look around in the world today you geniuses who don’t think there is a need to arm a population. Look at the Balkans (not just recently but in the 1880 – 1913), the Armenians – Greeks - Assyrians, Rwanda, China (Japanese war). Even today the UN wants to disarm everyone, hell they are trying to figure out how to tax you and I as they see fit – bypassing our constitution. Ask yourslef this; why does the UN have an army? and would you want the UN to protect you when they can't do the job with NATO and the US military backing them?
I would like to know what the difference is between us and the Swiss? I mean that they have access to firearms, not just a rifle but an assault weapons. They seem not to be killing everyone.
Tallcal, please answer my question.
