Golden Hound
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This is what he said:
What he was saying is that America has gone downhill in general. You may or may not agree that those specific things are the causes of this, but that is what he was saying.
Of those specific things, the only one that I could imagine would have a direct influence on crime would be the lack of discipline in schools. I believe in harsh discipline in schools, personally. But that alone won't really solve the problem. The real problem is that public schools contain thousands and thousands of "inner city" kids who simply should not be in school. They obviously don't want to learn, and all they do is form gangs and deal drugs and vandalize the school, and most of them wind up dropping out anyway. They clearly should not be in school to begin with. There should be a return of child labor, with strict guidelines and regulations, but still child labor - where these 16 and 17 year old "children" who would otherwise be dealing drugs in "school" can be busting their ass at some manual trade instead. They would be better off that way.
This viewpoint obviously will go over like a lead balloon with the mainstream but hey, I'm an unconventional guy.
As to those other issues, look, there is a new generation of shooters today. Like I said, there's no more civilian/soldier class, like there was in my grandpa's day, and there are fewer and fewer people growing up in rural surroundings, learning to shoot young. The new generation of shooters is this libertarian-minded, twenty-something, college educated group, who are not going to go in for the values of Jerry Fallwell. Sorry, it's just not going to work. This demographic can't be alienated by trying to push issues like abortion and gay marriage on them, because if we lose them we lose a huge part of our RKBA movement.
What he was saying is that America has gone downhill in general. You may or may not agree that those specific things are the causes of this, but that is what he was saying.
Of those specific things, the only one that I could imagine would have a direct influence on crime would be the lack of discipline in schools. I believe in harsh discipline in schools, personally. But that alone won't really solve the problem. The real problem is that public schools contain thousands and thousands of "inner city" kids who simply should not be in school. They obviously don't want to learn, and all they do is form gangs and deal drugs and vandalize the school, and most of them wind up dropping out anyway. They clearly should not be in school to begin with. There should be a return of child labor, with strict guidelines and regulations, but still child labor - where these 16 and 17 year old "children" who would otherwise be dealing drugs in "school" can be busting their ass at some manual trade instead. They would be better off that way.
This viewpoint obviously will go over like a lead balloon with the mainstream but hey, I'm an unconventional guy.
As to those other issues, look, there is a new generation of shooters today. Like I said, there's no more civilian/soldier class, like there was in my grandpa's day, and there are fewer and fewer people growing up in rural surroundings, learning to shoot young. The new generation of shooters is this libertarian-minded, twenty-something, college educated group, who are not going to go in for the values of Jerry Fallwell. Sorry, it's just not going to work. This demographic can't be alienated by trying to push issues like abortion and gay marriage on them, because if we lose them we lose a huge part of our RKBA movement.
