Seancass
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What have you done lately to curb gun violence?
I was just reading some propaganda from the Brady bunch about gun violence. I use the word propaganda intentionally because it obviously is, but what can we actually do to help the problem. Kids are killing kids over stupid little fights or even just because it looked cool on tv/videogame/movie. Something is seriously wrong with youth today and it is making the whole country look bad. Since they take out the aggression with a gun, it brings the entire shooting community down too.
Why do people keep trying to make guns illegal instead of finding the already illegal guns that are doing the killing? Why do they keep blaming “assault weapons”? Why do they all think hunting is a sport and not a necessity? (I’d rather I eat corn than let all the deer eat it) Why does every person who has a bad day think they need to kill someone else instead of just themselves? Why do I keep hearing how easy it is to get a gun, yet here I sit wanting to go get a few and I can’t? ($$$) Why am I a redneck racist who hates babies just because I own a couple toys/tools? Why are 11 rounds so much more deadly than 10?
I know I’m just asking rhetorical questions, or whatever, but what can the shooting community, or any other normal person, do to help? If more shooting clubs could get involved it might put a positive spin on things. It's really pretty depressing when I log onto here to read about guns and the ENTIRE FIRST PAGE is a list of shootings from the past week. It's disgusting, literally sickening. Something has to change and just new bans isn’t going to help anything.
Basically, I want to know what you're ideas are on what YOU can do to help. There is a problem and problems have solutions. What’s your idea?
Below here are some wanderings that made the above too wordy, so read on if you're bored.
Man, I must be really ticked off about this whole thing because spell check came up negative and I used words like rhetorical. I'm just upset and thinking out loud. That website posted here about the connection to racism and guns really upset me. Just the way they speak of ending violence while using extremely hateful words. That’s what it was, the Hate. Hating me because I own a gun and you don't even know me. Not ignorance or mistrust but out right Hate.
And Hate is what it all boils down to isn’t it. They know most gun owners are normal people but it doesn’t matter. They can ignore it. They just hate an object and you by association. Because you own a gun you are the enemy.
I think I saw that website shortly after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day. So much hate in the world at that time and he spoke of ending the hate. Then I see stuff like that website and a lot of other anti-gun propaganda. Just hate, hate and more hate. I guess I wasn’t raised in a hateful environment and I just don’t understand it. I just don’t hate. It might sound stupid, but it does not compute for me. Why the hate of a whole broad category of people? Maybe I am still young and too hopeful for a doomed world. I really just want people to get along. Just reading that sentence sounds stupid. I don’t approve of most of the things other people do, but I am not out trying to force them to live like me. Is the rule of live and let live so gone that we can only be as unique as everyone else? So much for being whatever you want to be when you grow up.
I was just reading some propaganda from the Brady bunch about gun violence. I use the word propaganda intentionally because it obviously is, but what can we actually do to help the problem. Kids are killing kids over stupid little fights or even just because it looked cool on tv/videogame/movie. Something is seriously wrong with youth today and it is making the whole country look bad. Since they take out the aggression with a gun, it brings the entire shooting community down too.
Why do people keep trying to make guns illegal instead of finding the already illegal guns that are doing the killing? Why do they keep blaming “assault weapons”? Why do they all think hunting is a sport and not a necessity? (I’d rather I eat corn than let all the deer eat it) Why does every person who has a bad day think they need to kill someone else instead of just themselves? Why do I keep hearing how easy it is to get a gun, yet here I sit wanting to go get a few and I can’t? ($$$) Why am I a redneck racist who hates babies just because I own a couple toys/tools? Why are 11 rounds so much more deadly than 10?
I know I’m just asking rhetorical questions, or whatever, but what can the shooting community, or any other normal person, do to help? If more shooting clubs could get involved it might put a positive spin on things. It's really pretty depressing when I log onto here to read about guns and the ENTIRE FIRST PAGE is a list of shootings from the past week. It's disgusting, literally sickening. Something has to change and just new bans isn’t going to help anything.
Basically, I want to know what you're ideas are on what YOU can do to help. There is a problem and problems have solutions. What’s your idea?
Below here are some wanderings that made the above too wordy, so read on if you're bored.
Man, I must be really ticked off about this whole thing because spell check came up negative and I used words like rhetorical. I'm just upset and thinking out loud. That website posted here about the connection to racism and guns really upset me. Just the way they speak of ending violence while using extremely hateful words. That’s what it was, the Hate. Hating me because I own a gun and you don't even know me. Not ignorance or mistrust but out right Hate.
And Hate is what it all boils down to isn’t it. They know most gun owners are normal people but it doesn’t matter. They can ignore it. They just hate an object and you by association. Because you own a gun you are the enemy.
I think I saw that website shortly after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day. So much hate in the world at that time and he spoke of ending the hate. Then I see stuff like that website and a lot of other anti-gun propaganda. Just hate, hate and more hate. I guess I wasn’t raised in a hateful environment and I just don’t understand it. I just don’t hate. It might sound stupid, but it does not compute for me. Why the hate of a whole broad category of people? Maybe I am still young and too hopeful for a doomed world. I really just want people to get along. Just reading that sentence sounds stupid. I don’t approve of most of the things other people do, but I am not out trying to force them to live like me. Is the rule of live and let live so gone that we can only be as unique as everyone else? So much for being whatever you want to be when you grow up.