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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsConservatives: Americans had it coming
Saw this posted by a friend on Facebook:
After every gun massacre, there is a subset of people who don't want any gun restrictions to come of it. And so they start speculating about other reasons (besides the insanely easy access to semi- and pseudo-automatic weapons) that these massacres happen. Therefore, they blame:
* The lack of prayer in school
* violent video games
* the lack of the 10 commandments in school
* kids, for being on their cell phones all the time
* the lack of mental health treatment in America
* our "sick culture" which includes violent movies and tv
* parents for not interfering with their kids' lives enough, not monitoring their every interaction, not being up their behinds enough, not being strict enough
* the victims for not being armed themselves
Guns cannot be to blame, you see, so it must be our fault. Americans had it coming, because we aren't godly enough or respectful enough or gun crazy enough or strict enough, or our culture includes entertainment with violence. It is the victims' fault, or our fault collectively.
I say to hell with that. Amercians don't deserve to be slaughtered. Our children don't deserve to be slaughtered. Americans are (by and large) really excellent people, and certainly no worse parents than in any other part of the world. Our entertainment is the world's entertainment. The only thing that we are at fault for is allowing our leadership to make our gun laws so weak that unhinged people and rapid-fire arms are bound to find each other. And we can (and should) do something about that.
I'm so sick of gun lovers blaming Americans, young Americans, unarmed Americans, peaceful Americans, Americans going to school, or to a concert, or to a peaceful protest, for their own demise at the hands of the NRA, the gun manufacturers, and the putrid politicians who are legally bribed by them. We didn't deserve this, and we will create a better America with stricter gun laws eventually, or die in the inevitable crossfire.
marybourg
(12,631 posts)Throck
(2,520 posts)world wide wally
(21,743 posts)We have more guns and they are easier to get.
Truth
ProfessorPlum
(11,257 posts)OldHippieChick
(2,434 posts)to get crickets in response.
ProfessorPlum
(11,257 posts)Too bad the brains on the other side aren't set to "receive"
volstork
(5,400 posts)Courtesy of information is beautiful
ProfessorPlum
(11,257 posts)But weirdly flawed. Conservatives don't mess around with society and social lives?
volstork
(5,400 posts)but thought it an interesting overview.
appalachiablue
(41,131 posts)C_U_L8R
(45,002 posts)rightwing media lying every day, fomenting hate and fear amongst the weakminded.
And yeah... guns.
Matthew28
(1,798 posts)attempting to micro-manage peoples lives. How exactly does teaching a god that ordered the destruction of entire cities by his chosen people = going to stop school shootings? The same god also slaughtered every creature on earth outside of a single ark, but that suppose to teach kids to stop killing.
Sounds like pure fascism to me.
Oneironaut
(5,494 posts)Every single argument here, ad nauseam. Theyll defend their precious to the point of absurdity. One caller even advocated for suspending habeas corpus to have a permanent military presence at every school. They want more guns, and more lethal guns.
If you want to be horrified, listen to right wing radio.
ProfessorPlum
(11,257 posts)Did it mean posse comitatus
Oneironaut
(5,494 posts)LBM20
(1,580 posts)Response to ProfessorPlum (Original post)
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Wednesdays
(17,368 posts)0.03 gun deaths per 100,000. Oh, and Japan is 0.06.
The USA? 10.54.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-related_death_rate
ProfessorPlum
(11,257 posts)I can't wait to use it