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What is the explanation….seems to be more and more mass killings….
1. Guns???
If guns kill people, I guess pencils misspell words, cars drive drunk, and spoons make people fat.
No….it’s not inanimate objects that are the ultimate cause.
….there were lots of guns in earlier times….the .45 cal handgun was available….it’s called the 1911 because it was developed in 1911…and it has been ubiquitous since World War I.
In the 1990s with a handgun ban in effect, Wash DC had the highest murder rate in Western Civilization, ….and now you can own guns legally, and the homicide rate has declined.
2. Well, there was the St Valentine’s Day Massacre….and the Texas Tower…but, today we have incidents like the school shooting, and I heard on the news that Chicago sends police to funerals, where people are shooting others who they claim caused the the death they were memorializing.
And this….
“6 dead in 'calculated' shooting at backyard party in Pa.”
6 dead in 'calculated' shooting at backyard party in Pa.
It’s practically commonplace today.
But, no… not the availability of guns….it’s the degradation of the culture.
It's something else.....something that didn't begin with the start of this nation.
I guess America just has a lot more crazy people than everyone else, if guns aren't the problem. That could very well be true, judging by how mentally disturbed Repugs like you think.
I'm just following your incoherent Repug "logic", that's all....
Morons like you are a tabula rasa in the sense that you know nothing....less than nothing.
But....I'm here to instruct dunces like you:
Comparing Death Rates from Mass Public Shootings and Mass Public Violence in the US and Europe
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1) In his address to the nation after the Planned Parenthood attack, Obama claimed: “I say this every time we’ve got one of these mass shootings: This just doesn’t happen in other countries.”
Senator Harry Reid made a similar statement on June 23rd: “The United States is the only advanced country where this type of mass violence occurs. Let’s do something. We can expand, for example, background checks. … We should support not giving guns to people who are mentally ill and felons.”
We prefer not to make purely cross-sectional comparisons, but this claim is simply not true. The data below looks at the period of time from the beginning of the Obama administration in January 2009 until the end of 2015. Mass public shootings – defined as four or more people killed in a public place, and not in the course of committing another crime, and not involving struggles over sovereignty."
UPDATED: Comparing Death Rates from Mass Public Shootings and Mass Public Violence in the US and Europe - Crime Prevention Research Center
Now, say 'thank you.'
The fact that you started this topic shows that, deep down, even someone as disturbed as you question the right of Americans to own military-style weapons like the AR-15. You're just too much of a coward to admit it on here.
You are mentally ill and deranged, like the vast majority of you gun enthusiasts.
You may attempt to try to change the subject....that I began....but I will not allow it.
1. Let me review the view set forth in the OP.....
....it is not weapons of any sort.
It is the plummeting view of the value of human life that began with Rousseau, Hegel and Marx.
2. Mull this quote over:
Hegel said, “The state says … you must obey …. The state has rights against the individual; its members have obligations, among them that of obeying without protest”
That is the view of every one of these political stances:
Communism, Liberalism, Socialism, Fascism, Nazism and Progressivism.
3. Seen even more darkly here:
"We must rid ourselves once and for all of the Quaker-Papist babble about the sanctity of human life." Leon Trotsky
4. My claim is that the American view, here, would result in a very different society, one that takes lives far less frequently:
In Thoreau’s On the duty of Civil Disobedience, he states: “ There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all of its own power and authority are derived.”
Now....just between us....don't you often wish you had an education, and knew who these individuals that I've mentioned, are?
It doesn't matter which scholars I know or don't know. I just know that you are a mentally deranged gun nut.
How else do you explain why ordinary Americans should be allowed to own a killing machine like the AR-15? Sicko.
"It doesn't matter which scholars I know or don't know."
Actually it does.....unless you're satisfied at being a life-long imbecile.
I'd be more than happy to recommend a few books that would fill in your lacunae.....
...when you finally get around to reading a book....
Until then, you are the poster child for government schooling, which is based on the Mushroom Management curriculum....
"mushroom management
A management philosophy prescribing to the theory that to best motivate your employees, you must at all times:
1. Keep them in the dark.
2. Feed them full of s**t."
Urban Dictionary: mushroom management