02-15-2018, 08:14 PM
Ever time that some lunatic goes on a killing rampage, many are so quick to point to "guns" being the problem. Is that really so?
I mean, when someone get's a DUI, we don't hear calls for banning cars or banning drinking. When a bomber kills, we don't hear calls to ban (inert whatever materials said bomber in question used for making bomb).
Why is it that when someone kills by shooting, it's always "we gotta do something about these guns"?
Folks, it isn't a gun problem, it's a people problem. People will find a way to kill, even if you were to make guns magically disappear. At my HS in the mid 80s, there were likely always at least a couple dozen pickups in the parking lot, with guns in the gun rack in the back window. We had all the same stuff to deal with; Bullying, stresses, kids on drugs, even fist fights. Never once did anyone lose it after getting their ass kicked, or from being ridiculed, or in spite of some disciplinary actions EVER go and fetch one of those guns and decide it was time to "shoot up the place".
Are people just not people anymore? I don't think that is the case. I see a strong correlation between the uptick in youth violence and the decline in parents disciplining their children. My Dad taught me to show respect for those in authority, but most of all, other people in general. And if I bucked what he was selling? He had a belt and a backhand, that got me around to his way of thinking pretty quickly. I'm not saying that his way was right, but it worked. As I got older, we just talked about things, he made me understand the wrongness in my ways and helped me to understand why. The fact that I'm going to turn 49 in 9 days, is in a way defacto proof that strong parenting works. Children left to their own devices seem to have a way of ending up either dead or in jail.
How about we take a different approach? Instead of using the lazy "blame guns" argument, let's try holding the parents who raised these monsters responsible for what they created?
I mean, when someone get's a DUI, we don't hear calls for banning cars or banning drinking. When a bomber kills, we don't hear calls to ban (inert whatever materials said bomber in question used for making bomb).
Why is it that when someone kills by shooting, it's always "we gotta do something about these guns"?
Folks, it isn't a gun problem, it's a people problem. People will find a way to kill, even if you were to make guns magically disappear. At my HS in the mid 80s, there were likely always at least a couple dozen pickups in the parking lot, with guns in the gun rack in the back window. We had all the same stuff to deal with; Bullying, stresses, kids on drugs, even fist fights. Never once did anyone lose it after getting their ass kicked, or from being ridiculed, or in spite of some disciplinary actions EVER go and fetch one of those guns and decide it was time to "shoot up the place".
Are people just not people anymore? I don't think that is the case. I see a strong correlation between the uptick in youth violence and the decline in parents disciplining their children. My Dad taught me to show respect for those in authority, but most of all, other people in general. And if I bucked what he was selling? He had a belt and a backhand, that got me around to his way of thinking pretty quickly. I'm not saying that his way was right, but it worked. As I got older, we just talked about things, he made me understand the wrongness in my ways and helped me to understand why. The fact that I'm going to turn 49 in 9 days, is in a way defacto proof that strong parenting works. Children left to their own devices seem to have a way of ending up either dead or in jail.
How about we take a different approach? Instead of using the lazy "blame guns" argument, let's try holding the parents who raised these monsters responsible for what they created?
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