I think this man has nailed it or gotten very close...

"As for the massacre in Oregon, the political actors naturally will fight this out, squabbling as they've done before. They pose, so choreographed, like powdered and bewigged sophists playing at word games at Versailles.

President Barack Obama talked about this phenomenon even as he engaged in it, saying that more federal gun control is needed.

A madman kills nine people in Oregon and the world seems to stop and gun control is demanded. But in Chicago, the killings are marginalized, as barbarians mow people down, with thousands shot in a town with strict gun laws, and the politicians do little if anything.

There is no national conversation from Chicago. The national political stars stay away. Even the president isn't engaged much. There is silence."

And then he gets to the point.....

"Because for all the talk of gun control and rights and politics, the one thing I don't hear enough about is that our culture is ill.

Oddly, the political left, which demands more federal gun control in the hope of protecting life, adamantly supports abortion. Over the past four decades or so, some 53 million abortions have taken place in the U.S. Whatever your position on abortion, whether you believe that which is taken is life or just tissue, there is a collective psychic cost to it all.

Our most popular sport, football, is about ritualized, gladiatorial violence. Our most popular movies are called "action movies," but truly they should be called "kill movies" for all the corpses they produce, piles of them.

Our humor is rhetorically violent. Our popular music just as violent. We're addicted to social media, where anonymity breeds a freedom to ridicule others, to peel their skin with venomous fingers from unknown keyboards. And we give our children phones at young ages so they may play, too."


Shooting in Oregon another sign our culture is ill - Chicago Tribune

This administration says it is IMPOSSIBLE to deport a few million illegals, so they wish to make them legal. Yet, they think they can control a billion legally owned guns. Funny how it's only impossible when it interferes with their new additional voter base.

They want to allow illegals to join Obamacare. Then they want to make the legal voters. They think nothing of it.

Originally Posted by Guest

I think this man has nailed it or gotten very close...

"As for the massacre in Oregon, the political actors naturally will fight this out, squabbling as they've done before. They pose, so choreographed, like powdered and bewigged sophists playing at word games at Versailles.

President Barack Obama talked about this phenomenon even as he engaged in it, saying that more federal gun control is needed.

A madman kills nine people in Oregon and the world seems to stop and gun control is demanded. But in Chicago, the killings are marginalized, as barbarians mow people down, with thousands shot in a town with strict gun laws, and the politicians do little if anything.

There is no national conversation from Chicago. The national political stars stay away. Even the president isn't engaged much. There is silence."

And then he gets to the point.....

"Because for all the talk of gun control and rights and politics, the one thing I don't hear enough about is that our culture is ill.

Oddly, the political left, which demands more federal gun control in the hope of protecting life, adamantly supports abortion. Over the past four decades or so, some 53 million abortions have taken place in the U.S. Whatever your position on abortion, whether you believe that which is taken is life or just tissue, there is a collective psychic cost to it all.

Our most popular sport, football, is about ritualized, gladiatorial violence. Our most popular movies are called "action movies," but truly they should be called "kill movies" for all the corpses they produce, piles of them.

Our humor is rhetorically violent. Our popular music just as violent. We're addicted to social media, where anonymity breeds a freedom to ridicule others, to peel their skin with venomous fingers from unknown keyboards. And we give our children phones at young ages so they may play, too."


Shooting in Oregon another sign our culture is ill - Chicago Tribune

I have pointed out the same aspects of the environment we live in today as being the prime contributor to violence and killing in America.

It usually generates no response or discussion. I personally think the reason for that is too many do not want these things refined, removed or banned. Their personal needs to be entertained far outweigh the attempt the save lives or create a healthier more sensible America.

Blaming guns is just a convenient cop out. And at that it is like riding a roller coaster....it is front and center after an incident and then after a few days back to the usual daily input of raping, murdering, pillaging and plundering.

HYPOCRITES ALL!

Originally Posted by Guest

This administration says it is IMPOSSIBLE to deport a few million illegals, so they wish to make them legal. Yet, they think they can control a billion legally owned guns. Funny how it's only impossible when it interferes with their new additional voter base.

They want to allow illegals to join Obamacare. Then they want to make the legal voters. They think nothing of it.

If we use Obama's philosphy for immigration control to gun control he would have to advocate flooding America with more guns. He seems to think that works for flooding America with more illegals!

IT IS ALL ABOUT VOTER BASE AND NOTHING ELSE.

Originally Posted by Guest

If we use Obama's philosphy for immigration control to gun control he would have to advocate flooding America with more guns. He seems to think that works for flooding America with more illegals!

IT IS ALL ABOUT VOTER BASE AND NOTHING ELSE.