I think one of the biggest problems which leads to gun violence is lack of parenting, and the pussification of today’s men. My generation, the one immediately before it, and the current crop coming up, are all at the tail end of the feminist movement. The feminist movement served to demonize testosterone and ban anything remotely masculine(not macho, there is a difference), dangerous, or reckless(read=fun). Don’t let your boys wrestle, they should sit quietly and do their school work like the little girls do. Taking away dodgeball, turning sports into an “everybody wins, there are no losers” environment has done nothing but further the cause.
To paraphrase Craig’s Dad in Friday, ‘In my day this was all you needed(holds up fists). You win some, you lose some. But you lived to fight another day.’ Most of today’s crop of men(notice there haven’t been any females on school shooting rampages) have been pussified to the point where they are afraid to take their licks and learn from them. Kick my ass on the playground, fine, tomorrow I’ll bring in Dad’s gun and we’ll see who the man is. Beat me at Nintendo(this actually happened), I’ll run next door and grab my .22 and show you who the winner is. Kids get picked on nowadays, it seems, they don’t ask Dad to show them some boxing moves in the backyard before supper, or ask to take karate lessons. Instead, they get their grubby little hands on a gun and take down as many people as they can.
On the gun control issue, it has been proven repeatedly that more guns actually does=less crime. The gun control lobby spent millions of federal money in a study of gun control and crime, trying to prove that gun control reduces crime. When they couldn’t find any evidence whatsoever to give the results they wanted, instead of admitting that gun control accomplishes nothing they merely stated that the issue needs more research.
In two separate counties in Georgia in the late 80s, early 90s(don’t remember exact year), they enacted a temporary state law for one year, which required every household with someone over the age of 18 to have a rifle or shotgun in the house, and every household with someone over the age of 21 to have a handgun in the house. During this time period, there was a drastic reduction in violent crimes in those two counties. Because the criminals all went to the neighboring counties, where they had a better chance of hitting someone who didn’t have a gun. But you never hear about stuff like that, because it doesn’t fit into the liberal medias agenda.
It was the vroom-esque language of the “intellectual progressive” that caught my eye. You know, “nuances” and “black and white” and the like. It sounded just like you!