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Originally Posted by billethkid
the guns as already stated are not the problem.
We have become, like it or not, an anything goes society....swearing is common place in public, movies, television....killing in entertainment is common place in the news, the movies and on television...ditto sex....ditto people slaughtering people.
AND GOD forbid anymore that we try to do something about and bring into action every political, special interest group, minority group (not referring to race) who MIGHT object. And as a result the now all too common place linguine spined leaders at every level who fear to offend somebody for something.
We continue to allow the degrading of core valuesthat actually punish those who do wrong.
It is not the guns....look in the mirror....we the people have become so permissive we have no idea anymore what to do when something bad happens or when someone does something bad.
GOD forbid we try to use dicipline...punishment...or law enforcement.
IT IS NOT THE GUNS.....that is a cop out, political issue that will solve absolutely nothing.
Does anyone think for one minute that gun control would have prevented the lunatic of today from employing some other means of accomplishing the need to do some killing? Of course not.
IT AIN'T THE GUNS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
btk
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You are right - to a degree. It is not JUST the guns!!!!!! Most of what you say is contributory, but add to those issues the easy access to guns and you have a volitile mix. I know dozens, maybe hundreds, of hunters and gun owners, yet I know no one that owns an automatic weapon or "assault weapon". I think the position that it is not the guns, fails to recognize a part of the problem that is key, and seems to justify the mentality of troubled people who amass weapons intended to do harm to people. I have heard the catchphrase, guns don't kill people, people kill people. Sounds reasonable, but I would revise it to say, guns don't kill people, people with guns kill people.