Can America Ever be Weaned off its Love Affair with Guns

[Deanimator]

When I was going to a Catholic Preparatory Seminary in Chicago in the '70s, I used to always carry a gym bag or rucksack full of books and magazines. Several of them WEREN'T gun related.

Advocacy of gun control by the hierarchy of the Catholic Church started me along my inevitable and permanent break with Catholicism in particular and religion in general.

What tickles me is the number of atheists who'll tell you that it's better to let somebody murder you than to fight back, especially if your wouldbe murderer is an agent of the state. I once said to a friend, "You're an atheist, and yet you're telling me to let somebody murder me, and you won't even do me the courtesy of promising me a 'better place' afterward."

 

[longeyes]

I think that we need to muzzle the media. After all if they can claim those things as facts about guns then they better also blame themselves as the article says they share responsibility.

I cannot stand journalists.

Used to be one, but I hear ya.

The problem isn't journalists per se, it's that journalism, especially the tv variety, has become just another arm of the "progressive"-collectivist propaganda machine. Public schools are the other mind-control juggernaut.

In the end if we want to save America we are going to have to turn off the bubble machine and homeschool the kids.

That will leave the gang of outlaws in the legal establishment to contend with...

 

[Khornet]

"An American youth is murdered with a firearm

...every four and a half hours."

And by the same token, a single jumbo jet crashed killing all 365 aboard, and we can then say, "Someone dies in a plane crash every day."

Never mind the elastic definition of 'youth' used by gun banners. Up to and including 18-year-old gangbangers shooting each other.

Figures don't lie, but liars do figure.

 

[DRZinn]

[Donald Sutherland] argued that both countries have a frontier spirit, only that the iconic figure of the Canadian West is the Mountie - a law officer - while the iconic figure of the American West is the outlaw.

I'm glad to see the reporter getting his information from such a well-established authority on what type of figure Americans emulate.

 

[gezzer]

The Brits still have no idea about freedom.

Over 2 centuries and after having to be saved by us the "gun culture country" they still don't get it.

 

[Carl N. Brown]

"But dealers at gun shows - popular throughout the heartland - are exempt from the federal law, making it easy for criminals or children to lay their hands on whatever they want."

One, every licensed gun dealer that sets up at a gunshow does the
background check: I bought a Baikal double and my son a Ruger
22/45,same background check 4473 etc. Private citizens selling their
personal guns are excempt from the background check, but the ATf
has consistently ruled that a personal occasionally selling or trading
used guns does not qualify as a dealer and cannot get a dealers license.

The ATF has stated too many times to ignore that gun shows are
the LEAST significant source of crime guns in America, less
than 2% or so.

The Canadian government published a comparison of the American
prairie states versus the Canadian prairie provinces: the states had
twice the number of guns per capita but 2/3rds the number of crimes
per capita; or, the other way, the Canadian provinces had half the
the number of guns per capoita, but 150% the number of crimes per
capita; sounds a lott like more guns, less crime.

American crime rates are skewed out of line by the horrendous rates
largely concentrated in the gun prohibition jurisdictions.