Much has been said about the ease of buying/getting a gun.
That is not the reason for gun violence here in the USA.
What always seems to be glossed over is that we have allowed our culture to condone/accept violence. As was stated in an earlier post the movies, video games, television and much entertainment is violence based or violence driven.
Once upon a time there were ratings that some of us used to manage what our kids watched on tv or at the movies. In our house if it was R rated....no if and or buts the kids did not get to see it. Nor was anybody else allowed to watch it while under age children in the room.
Today kids grow up with a game boy or game video or television as their baby sitter. These kids get a steady diet of violence in all shapes and forms....day after day and year after year. The emotional response to murder, maiming and mayhem has become non existent.
Add to that our increasing tolerance for wrong doing and selective law enforcement all provide a breeding culture for violence and wrong doing.
The statistics are higher for mortality on using cell phones while driving. Yet there is no clamoring of the masses to ELIMINATE or control the problem. Why do we hear about MADD but nothing about mothers against cell phones? Why? Because the majority have them and they will not allow or create and disturbance to their addiction. Hence the death by auto-cell phone continues.
Non gun deaths i.e. cell phones....note the silence.
Gun deaths? Note the lack of addressing the real issue.
How many gun owners and or guns owned in the USA used every single day without incident. Millions upon millions. What gets the press and political agenda attention? Not the 99.8% responsible gun ownership and use!!!!!!!
Re-iterating my position once again.
It ain't the gun!!!!
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