DANGER Los Angeles Hammer Attacker Hitting People In Heads.

[WhatInThe]

That's just more right-winger code for...whatever it is right-wingers see as being... what reality is. :shrug:

An ammo tax would be an example of taxing gun ownership and/or use into unaffordability.

http://www.opposingviews.com/i/society/guns/california-approves-92m-ammo-tax-combat-gun-violence

Along with regulations on magazine capacities, long gun specifications etc. Heard one person during a DNC interview pushing for a 30 day waiting period to pick up a gun purchase.

 

[Butterfly]

I don't blame the media. When I was young we grew up with fallout shelters and the threat of nuclear war all the time. But I don't recall kids shooting their fellow students and teachers in school. I don't remember foreign terrorists wearing concealing clothing beheading priests while they said mass. This kind of violence just plain didn't exist back then in the U.S. (Or in France). I don't know what to say, but I don't believe the media has created this. There are serious issues that need to be addressed in the world today.

Chic, I agree. I remember fallout shelters and air raid drills, etc., too. I don't believe the media has created this, either (though they DO keep in in our face 24/7). Something substantial has changed in the way many people think about the value of life, civility, and the right of everyone to just do their thing in peace. It's not all what we think of as traditional "mental illness," either. There's just no respect for the lives and/or property of others. So many people go around with a hair trigger chip on their shoulder for any perceived offense it's just very scary.

 

[Shalimar]

I am just old enough to remember watching the hell over desegregation et al on TV. As I recall, respect for people's rights was very selective. Previously, it was open season on blacks in many parts of the country. Mexicans, and native Americans, et al

were often treated as second class citizens, and exploited. White privilege was rampant. Make that white male privilege. In both our countries, a man could beat and forcibly have sex with his wife in their own home without consequence. Good luck prosecuting child abuse either. Canada wasn't wonderful. We

treated our indigenous people shamefully. Still do, in some cases. Women and GBLTQ had difficulties. The good old days aren't that great, much was hidden. Most people lived in a happy state of denial unless personally affected. Innocence is a beautiful thing, but sometimes it exists at the expense of invisible victims. Rage is building, we need to find out why.

 

[SeaBreeze]

This is so true and that's my fear about gun control. It won't control the people who are most dangerous from acquiring guns.

Exactly Chic, you've got it! It won't do anything to stop the street thugs and criminals from getting their guns. How about focusing on controlling the street gangs out there, and the zombies walking around in a legally drug-induced state by the pharmaceutical prescriptions that are hurting mental health more than helping?

They don't care about the real source of the issues, and the reasons behind the violence. Their target agenda is gun control period, and they'll march to that tune until they get all they can. Which won't be much in my lifetime.

 

[rt3]

That's just more right-winger code for...whatever it is right-wingers see as being... what reality is. :shrug:

Couldnt agree more

any right winger code I could put out on the net doesn't have near the sales success as Big Os left winger code
Thank You

 

[rt3]

Exactly Chic, you've got it! It won't do anything to stop the street thugs and criminals from getting their guns. How about focusing on controlling the street gangs out there, and the zombies walking around in a legally drug-induced state by the pharmaceutical prescriptions that are hurting mental health more than helping?

They don't care about the real source of the issues, and the reasons behind the violence. Their target agenda is gun control period, and they'll march to that tune until they get all they can. Which won't be much in my lifetime.

Its not a question of how much damage/violence folks would do on the drugs, it's a question of how much more they would do if they didn't have the drugs.

i think all the promises made about gun control being told to get votes is great entertainment. No way can you even make this crap up.

 

[rt3]

Couldnt agree more

any right winger code I could put out on the net doesn't have near the sales success as Big Os left winger code
Thank You

almost forgot
right wing is not a perjorative

 

[Debby]

Exactly Chic, you've got it! It won't do anything to stop the street thugs and criminals from getting their guns. How about focusing on controlling the street gangs out there, and the zombies walking around in a legally drug-induced state by the pharmaceutical prescriptions that are hurting mental health more than helping?

They don't care about the real source of the issues, and the reasons behind the violence. Their target agenda is gun control period, and they'll march to that tune until they get all they can. Which won't be much in my lifetime.

What is the real source of the issues and reasons behind the violence?

 

[Ruthanne]

What is the real source of the issues and reasons behind the violence?

Most people are not violent, those who are have anger that is out of control obviously and need anger impulse control help but often do not get help. Yes, they have reasons for being angry. We all have reasons for when we are angry but we learn to manage it and others need to learn to manage it too. Some do learn.