Originally Posted by
yoni
When people would spout off about how evil bump stocks were, I always educated them. Then they would ask " What can we do to end gun violence" I told them nothing it is the cost of freedom, just like the number of people that are killed on the roads. But before you freak out think of the murdered at the hand of the State where people can own guns. I think I figured out once that just to equal the death that Stalin gave his own people it would take the USA a little over 1800 years to catch up. This doesn't include Mao, Pol Pot etc
I don't know if that's the best answer.
The best answer is, "It's not guns, it's not mental health, it's not racism...it's attitude. We need to fix the attitude of this country. Otherwise, we'll have gun violence whether or not people have legal access to guns. People have a total disregard for each other these days. We're kings in our own minds and if anyone should displease the king, that person should be put to death. We have sown the idea of corporate punishment in mass murderers: "Nobody is innocent and everybody deserves to pay with their lives for my hatred of the world." We have gotten rid of the idea of individual morality and instead teach that everybody is responsible for murder except the murderers themselves! Society let them down; they are to be pitied, not condemned.
That is what needs to be fixed. That's a tall order, and there's no one way to do it. We as a nation have to collectively decide that we've had enough of this shit. And because it's such a tall order, we can't give up our guns. Ever.
Last edited by BoringGuy45; 04-09-21 at 18:57.
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