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In reply to the discussion: "Gun culture" begins with parents. Any law that doesn't restrict parents won't change gun culture. [View all]Decoy of Fenris
(1,954 posts)12. To the other poster's credit, I read the same thing.
Implying that reproduction is not an entitlement by virtue of political or cultural upbringing is eugenics, regardless of intent. In your first few lines, you quite clearly state that people -do not have the right to reproduce- and then apply that statement to the culture they subscribe to. If you take what you said and apply it to any minority (black, latino, jewish) or cultural (hip-hop, rape, feminist) phenomenon, it immediately falls under "Eugenics."
It may not have been what you meant, but its pretty solidly what you said.
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"Gun culture" begins with parents. Any law that doesn't restrict parents won't change gun culture. [View all]
ancianita
Oct 2015
OP
I didn't know I was thinking along those lines or even to go that far. I think you know that I'm
ancianita
Oct 2015
#8
I admit to the impulse, but the civilized side of me prevails. I'm still trying to get at the source
ancianita
Oct 2015
#13
No, for the most part I agree with the concept of "Gun culture" and what's wrong with it.
Decoy of Fenris
Oct 2015
#14
If you reread the OP, you'll see that I'm not at all talking about taking away the tool. At all.
ancianita
Oct 2015
#16
Again, I'm with you in spirit, but what you're proposing will never end rampages like Oregon.
Decoy of Fenris
Oct 2015
#18
Never? You'll really never be able to claim that until a parent gun training course is nationally
ancianita
Oct 2015
#20
To list one NRA training course, I'm sorry, but that doesn't support your claim of "hundreds" of
ancianita
Oct 2015
#33
What I was getting at, rather in a roundabout way, was that each range runs their own.
Decoy of Fenris
Oct 2015
#37
I'm talking about the training of tool use morality for children. If no one can train morality into
ancianita
Oct 2015
#41
We've been through this. I implied that having total freedom doesn't mean that any of the free
ancianita
Oct 2015
#61
I owned and learned how to use guns, too, but we didn't play with or have portraits done with them.
ancianita
Oct 2015
#9
My brother has taught gun and hunting safety training for the DNR for 27 years.
Snobblevitch
Oct 2015
#19
Gun deaths can't even be considered a public health issue?? THAT is part of gun culture, too.
ancianita
Oct 2015
#22
Yet, the government still both conducts and sponsors significant amounts of research
branford
Oct 2015
#23
Fair enough. I wasn't aware. I still think it's been a public health issue, not just a criminal
ancianita
Oct 2015
#24
Constitutional words are either descriptive or prescriptive.Lawyers can argue the prescriptive here.
ancianita
Oct 2015
#27
Sorry I missed your qualifications. Yes, the popular support part is what I'm concerned with here.
ancianita
Oct 2015
#35
Your description is clear. An indisputable truth. That said, gun culture as part of American culture
ancianita
Oct 2015
#38
In fairness, and admitting than any violent crime, with or without firearms, is a tragedy,
branford
Oct 2015
#40
It takes dwarves 1/100th the time to tear down a building it takes architects and skilled workers
ancianita
Oct 2015
#46
I would simply note that there's nothing that prevents academics outside the government
branford
Oct 2015
#28
No. But I was just mad. Mass killings, even from such slight numbers of gun users, is soul killing.
ancianita
Oct 2015
#42
Few, particularly pro-gun rights Democrats on DU, are against any gun regulations at all.
branford
Oct 2015
#48
We HAVE to keep trying to implement regulations that do have demonstrable effects. We have to.
ancianita
Oct 2015
#50
Minimum gun safety and proficiency training is something that I personally support,
branford
Oct 2015
#51
That is, indeed, the tedious framing. My framing concentrates on national, law-based policy.
ancianita
Oct 2015
#53
I'd be stupid to think that. But the sloppy minority spoil it for the careful majority, don't they.
ancianita
Oct 2015
#54
So I'm looking at the 3rd pic of all the little kids holding a gun & I'm wondering,
CrispyQ
Oct 2015
#59