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Originally Posted by DeanFL
My personal review of 'the speech' last night.
words were spoken. yawn.
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What I find interesting is that he went out of his way to emphasize that we have no solid evidence that this was a terrorist attack or that these people had any connection with a foreign terrorist organization.
This morning, The FBI announced that they are treating this as a terrorist attack and that they have evidence that these people are part of a larger organization.
You mean to tell me that the president of The United States didn't have some information that this was the case?
A lot of what he said made sense to me, by why go out of your way to make a statement that you know with 99% certainty is going to be proven wrong.
More gun laws are not going to change anything. We need to start enforcing the gun laws that we have with maximum sentences. Even with that, more laws aren't going to stop crimes. Laws don't prevent crime. they only serve to punish people who break them. How many laws were broken by the two shooters? They're going to be in big trouble now. We already have laws against murdering people, but people still get murdered. Does anyone think that we need more anti murder laws?
As someone pointed out, a huge percentage of gun deaths in this country are suicides. Does anyone think that those unfortunate souls wouldn't find another way to end their lives?
What was not mentioned is the huge percentage of homicides that are gang banger on gang banger. If you solve the gang problem and you'd eliminate a large number of gun related homicides.
Another point is that although these mass shootings get a lot of media attention and get everyone all worked up, they actually account for a very small percentage of gun deaths.