The second amendment of the constitution guarantees the right to keep and bear arms. As the specter of gun violence continues in our workplaces, roads and schools, the question keeps arising: do guns keep you safe, or just increase the level of violence?
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The Proliferation of Guns Adds to the Gun Violence Problems
- From Ceasefire PA
By Ceasefire PA - Working to Prevent Gun Violence
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example to our children?
Wow you guys pulled that line out? Not reaching for a heart string there or anything. . .
but I digress- your building a straw man argument. you offer no actual data and create a fictional scenario, which then interject at the end, You wouldn't want your kids to see this, would you?
So congratulations on reading traditional propaganda techniques. If you guys want some other literature to molest and twist around, I recommend Ellul's PROPAGANDA. I read it during my MA when I did a lot of work on the topic.
as to your point- What would you suggest? Eliminating all guns? let me build a little scenario for you-
remember that thing in America way back when called Prohibition? By making a desirable, but if misused dangerous commodity illegal- the US Government created a situation where it was SO profitable to break the law and provide this illegal item that it gave rise to organized crime and distribution of products on the black market that this country had never before seen.
so how would that work with guns? If made illegal- they would become so desirable an underground economy (one that already exists, you would just be empowering it) would explode with traffic from the criminal element in our country.
so who wouldn't have guns? Honest citizens who obey laws, even when they are unjust.
who would have guns? Criminals. laws didn't prevent them before- and now you just made it more profitable for them to traffic their wares.
To suggest that the gun lobby is driven by capitalism and not have anything to do with National history, American Rights, or in my personal opinion- good sense- is asinine.
Outlawing fire-extinguishers doesn't prevent crime. Nor does cutting down in their availability. To limit the flow of firearms will not cut down in violent crime- at best it will manifest itself in a different, and probably more violent form- at worst, it will be business as usual, just fewer good men and women will have an opportunity to resist and protect their way of life.
- MikesSpot
September 8, 2008 9:33PM
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EDIT CORRECTING A TYPO
correcting a typo- last paragraph fire extinguishers do not prevent FIRES. Sorry I was typing quickly.
- MikesSpot
September 8, 2008 9:55PM
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I think that the issue is not the guns
I think the underlying problems is not that there are too many guns , on the other hand there are too many criminals. We want to blame an inanimate object for the obvious failure of the parenting skills of a large part of the population. Lets start at the root of the problem, we are raising our children to be criminals. Criminals that steal, rob and rape and murder . If these people were raised to value human life, who were raised to KNOW the difference between right and wrong, to stay away from those who do not, and raised their voices when they saw the law being broken, then we would not have the need to carry guns. Its not the guns that should be regulated its the parenting skills of people who do not get involved in their children's lives. These kids run the streets following the gangs, listening to music that glorifies the types of behaviors that we as a society abhor. And we question why they wound up dead in front of a liquor store. Was it a gun that killed your teen son? NO! IT WAS YOU! You had the responsibility to raise him to be an upright young man and YOU FAILED! Don't blame guns, look in the mirror. Your child is why I must carry a gun to protect my life and the safety of my loved ones
- DArtagnan1966
April 5, 2009 7:41AM
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