justoffal
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The last paragraph has some merit no doubt.The first felon was a mentally ill homeless man living on the street. Rittenhouse freaked out and shot him.
Except they didn't try to kill him, they tried to tackle him so the police could take him into custody... which of course they didn't because he was white.
This country was founded on genocide and slavery, that's really not a good excuse to keep doing them.
As for the "perfect world", I don't believe we can have that.
We can have a better world. Japan and most of Europe ban gun ownership. They have nowhere near our murder rates, nowhere near our crime rates, and nowhere near our incarceration rates.
Actually, the protests in Kenosha were mostly peaceful until Rittenhouse and the other thugs showed up.
I never posted about having firearms. While I was in the military a long time ago, I haven't touched a weapon since 1992. I did recently apply for a FOID card, the kind of supposedly strict gun control guys like 2TinyGuy whines about. It was ridiculously easy to get.
Except- Germany, Japan, the UK, France, Italy, and Canada all have some form of gun control, and they are doing just fine.
In fact, the reasons why we have such high crime rates is because we don't solve the underlying causes - addiction, mental illness, poverty, racism and of course, gun proliferation.
I don't really care what happens in other nations...the social Constructs are different enough to render them non applicable here as far as I'm concerned.
Japanese culture specifically is alien to North America....as for Germany as and France...they have been innundated with violence imported by their own stupidity...nothing peaceful about either nation. Can't comment on Italy...don't know enough.
This is North America...
You're not going to get voluntary compliance just for the sake of it. Not that kind of culture.
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