Santa Fe school shooting: America’s gun problem, explained in 5 facts
Now this is a classic, fake news article on guns and gun violence, take some statistics out of context (the US has more gun deaths than Sweden, Germany or Finland, uh, because they have strict gun control laws) and leave out the real data needed for an argument, like, oh, say knife attacks (if you don't have a damn gun, you use a damn knife, hatchet, samurai sword, whatever is at hand). Now, you pontificate on how it is the GUNS that cause all this, not the morons pulling the triggers, not the disturb kids who have been bullied to the point if they didn't have a gun, they would use one of the alternatives, the mental cases wandering around who do not take their med, the fact we have so many mental cases, after 30 years of "enlightened" education and oodles of reforms. Then you manipulate more data and arguments always supporting YOUR little fantasy, and POOF!, its all true and you have a herd of simple minded idiots voting to ban anything that uses a bullet. Talk to the Australian woman and children murdered by GUNS in a heavily REGULATED COUNTRY, who were killed last week, and you will find out: When someone wants to kill you, no damn gun laws are going to stop them. Or just pull the statistics from Chicago or Wash DC, shining examples of the total, utterly complete failure of the whole "take your guns away" fallacy.
1) Repeal all compulsory attendance laws.
2) Close all government schools.
(Me dino decided not to post a link to that February 15-minute speech and condense Hannity's views with my own words).
Having off and on worked security guard jobs after retiring from my corrections officer career, me dino agrees with Hannity.
Hire retired cops and veterans as armed guards.
Have one way in and one way out at the same point where IDs must be shown and a metal detector is used.
Addressing the expense, Hannity said, "What is more precious than our children?"
Last night he posed another question: "Have you ever heard of a shooting at the Oscars?"
Hannity hs repeatedly said that armed guards are used to protect politicians, movie stars and athletes. Are our children less important?
And me dino suddenly recalls the Dukes Of Hazard using bows and arrows due to past convictions legally forbidding them to have guns.
I occasionally get catalogs with which I can mail order crossbows, throwing knives and all sorts of sharp nasty stuff.
Molotov cocktails are easy to put together. Wine bottles work the best for fireball breakage ignition..
Yup, without guns, its still easy to kill kids armed with silly buckets of rocks.
It's hard to find a rock in the reddish clay soil great for growing peanuts and fashioning dirt clods and getting into dirt clod fights was fun.
Ancient slingers oft used river rocks (rivers around Dothan are dirty brown runs over mud just like how the the Mississippi looks in New Orleans) but ancient slingers also melted down lead into round balls called bullets, that being where the word "bullet" came from.
This way, a school shooter can be greeted by a hail of bullets. Get it? A hail of bullets!!
Bwahahahahaha!
The highest country for gun deaths - Honduras, with 670 murders per 1 million annually., compared to about 46 for the US.
Guatemala is very high - 300 or so, El Salvador - 270, Brazil - 207, Columbia, 180, Mexico - 65, and Coast Rica at 60 - all of which come here by the pipeline and yes, a lot of them are criminals and gang members. Their gang wars certainly spill across the border and continue here.
Why don't they mention that? It would suggest that building a wall will help, that stopping illegal immigration would help, and shipping the criminals back would help. - All substantially more than "gun control". You can't buy a firearm legally in any of those countries - yet it certainly doesn't stop a criminal from obtaining one.
I still think it's hilarious, the left thinks guns are a mysterious technology akin to Artificial Intelligence and if you can't buy one in the store, you can never obtain one. LOL... I reload thousands of rounds of ammunition every year by hand, it's not exactly rocket science.. I have a lot of electronic and robotic tools to make it easier and faster, but ultimately I can do it by hand with a simple balance scale if I have to.
Building a functioning firearm is not difficult either - the French Resistance built STEN full autos in the kitchen with plumbing parts.
Lack that mental illness plays a part? I'll call Bullshit on that one. While it's probably not much of a factor in suicides or crimes of passion, basically every mass murder has had a serious mental illness. Even California recognizes this with an automatic ban on firearms purchases if ever held on a 72-hour mental facility incarceration (known as a 5150).
Whatever, I'll just buy 10,000 .223 cases online and keep buying 22 caliber projectiles at the gun shop. What an f'ing moron.
They are doing it again, I used to kind of think I was alone in believing this will inevitably end badly, but if you actually Google "Second American Civil War" - there is no shortage of others believing the same thing.
Someone even gamed out the 5 year campaign until the Republicans snuff out every last Democrat.
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Apparently, the assumption is that kids will act like adults (instead of kids) and not pick on the kid in the front corner jerking off every day (that actually happened when my son was in high school - his Junior year the kid's mother came to the class to try to "explain" that her son was special and that masturbating in public wasn't a sexual thing, it was just how he calms himself so he can "concentrate".. so every day for the year, the kid masturbated to orgasm in math class. Lovely for the janitor... The 15/16 year old girls were supposed to look the other way apparently.
Add fuel to that fire with Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Tinder, etc.. and you not only have bullying non-stop in the school like there always has been, but now includes 24/7/365 on social media.
Simultaneously, the left has been so successfully eroding faith in society, that now there are large percentages of youth that are actively cynical, if not completely apprehensive to religion. Apparently, the left is offended by "Thou Shalt Not Kill", "Thou Shalt Not Steal", and "Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Neighbor's Wife" - all things that tend to send communities into a tailspin.
Reportedly, the first girl shot in Texas last week was the one that refused his sexual advances. If you notice - out of the 10 dead, 8 were girls.
So, if she had a real concern this kid would go nuts, why didn't she report it, and if she did, what happened, and where was mom who she told a couple weeks before? There are always a huge chain of stupid "we didin't do anything" stories on EVERYONE of these events. Yet you NEVER hear any cries about that, it is the total disregard for the reality, and the direct move to "it's the guns" that screams "setup".
Some commentary on one of the brand-x news shows last week had one of the classmates and he commented that even some of the teachers picked on him - the JV football coach used to constantly make little jokes & slurs about how much he stunk. Apparently one of those types that don't like to bathe every day.
Evil people and those who are mentally deranged have been killing since the beginning of time. The methods and technology have changed but the end results are the same, you're dead and if your death was intentionally caused by another human then it does not matter in the least what weapon or method that person used. What caused that person to have the desire to kill is what does matter and until they get a handle on that all the rest is just psychobabble. He can stick his facts where the sun does not shine and I will keep my gun just in case I run into one of these people with ill intents. Funny thing about being a human being is that God taught us and gave us the ability to survive and spears and bows just don't cut it these days. You can bet your ass when the SHTF the first call that writer will make is for a cop with a gun.
He is obviously a lefty and we are aware that for the left facts don't matter. The rhetoric does, e.g. Obama.
It is sickening how this specimen has grown over the population and managed to sway many.
The proof for their fake demand being a nonsense would be to ban guns with the result of gun related violence remaining the same, but that would inconvenience a lot of law abiding people. Of course that would not concern the left as long as their demand would prevail. They would find another reason for the violence then.
Fact #2. The problem is poor gun control. Truth. Proper gun control means 1. knowing what is beyond your target, 2. only pointing a firearm at something you are willing to destroy, 3. never putting one's finger on or near the trigger until you are willing to destroy something, and 4. always treating a firearm as if it is loaded. And even before that is a proper respect for the rights of others - especially a right to life. What I find most galling and hypocritical is that these same loud-mouths advocating gun control are more than willing to support abortion and oppose the death penalty. They are also the ones most likely to impose restrictions on owning a firearm for mental health reasons except ones which really matter (see the Parkland Florida shooter).
Fact #3. Gun control works. Truth. It works great for enslaving or decimating one's political enemies. Hitler used it to great effect in Germany in the 1920's and 1930's. Stalin used it to great effect in the 1950's, as did Mao in China and Pol Pot in Cambodia. Together it is estimated that they slaughtered more than 100 million of their own peoples. But what are those numbers in comparison to a school shooting?
Fact #4. State and local actions are not enough. Truth. It is the halfway principles that are being peddled that are the problem. It's okay to push violent video games, okay to slaughter the unborn, totally wrong to punish criminals because they are just misunderstood, and totally okay to allow people to live in their own fantasy worlds instead of having to mature and deal with the real world. People have a right to a good job, housing, healthcare, and good education but they don't have a right to life or liberty or property.
Fact #5. America needs to go further than anyone wants to admit. Truth. We need to get back to teaching American values: hard work, self discipline, self-reliance, personal achievement, invention, ingenuity, respect for human rights and especially what those human rights are. We should be teaching civics courses in grade schools and high schools (along with basic economics) in order to emphasize TANSTAAFL. We need to eliminate the cancerous federal welfare programs which promote sloth and an entitlement attitude. And yes, that is further than America wants to go.
And, when confronted about what their gun laws truly mean, they lie.
Its what liberals/socialists/commies do. Sort of like the scorpion hitching a ride across a stream on the back of a frog, then stings the frog killing it. Its their nature. Simple.
Your sentence "thus we have to ban all shotguns and pistols, now" is spot on. Remember how Obama used to say every time he demanded one of his dictatorial measures: "we have to do it, now". Everything had to be done right now. Obamacare: "we have to approve it, now", we can read it later. It must be one of the Alynsky doctrines.
I couldn't agree more; however, the serious problem is the Lefts desire to remove guns from Law Abiding Americans. If we would embrace Firearms training at the lowest levels. Teach gun safety, beginning in the homes of course, but also in the earliest grade levels. Encourage marksmanship starting in the early teen years and sponsor events. It would increase the amount of armed responsible adults; thereby, greatly reducing the likely hood of these kinds of events. While also providing for people who could head off these events earlier in their occurrences.
These events aren't new; however, their media coverage is so all encompassing now that it seems far more impactful than in years past.
But no guns for guards in schools.
The trucks contents are more valuable then the school's contents ?
I'd like them add more countries to the scatter plot. It looks cherry-picked.
I'd like to know how many of them were crimes. Homicide just means killing people. Killing a criminal in self-defense to save your life is "homicide".
But let's set all that aside. Suppose the general thesis is correct. Suppose gov't could take away guns. Suppose that could make US homicide rate from all weapons fall to one sixth, as the article claims. That numbers in the article show that saving 15,000 lives a year. That's powerful. You have to put that on a scale next to the rights lost. We could save >15,000 by banning cars, and it would be a big step to fight global warming. Does that mean it's an obvious common-sense measure that we should have enacted long ago? I wonder if we could save thousands of lives if we dropped any pretense of following the Fourth Amendment. What about banning any speech that might be controversial enough to cause violence? I guess the author of this article puts 15,000 lives a year on a scale and weighs it against gun rights, and things the lives are worth more. We shouldn't stop trying to find away to stop murders, all murders, but I think there are direct and intangible benefits to citizens having the right to guns. I actually would agree with some kind of strict licensing, registration, and background check, if I didn't think they were a backdoor way to ban guns altogether. These articles make me think there are people who are just not into guns and therefore don't see it as an important right, so thousands of lives easily tips the scales for them.
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