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America has a gun problem. Period. It is caused by proliferation of handguns on American streets. It is accompanied by too many unresolved societal problems that are rendering the US less and less of a free nation. Nothing that any academic can say is going to change that, no matter how well written. America's most intelligent and respected writer could speak for 52 minutes in favour of slavery and that still would not make slavery acceptable. Some things cannot be rationalized.
Just guessing, but it looks like the poster of this post is a 2nd Amendment adherent. That would mean that the attached You Tube is a 52 minute apology and support of the 2nd Amendment? I don't think so. America has a gun problem. Period. It is caused by proliferation of handguns on American streets. It is accompanied by too many unresolved societal problems that are rendering the US less and less of a free nation. Nothing that any academic can say is going to change that, no matter how well written. America's most intelligent and respected writer could speak for 52 minutes in favour of slavery and that still would not make slavery acceptable. Some things cannot be rationalized.
America has a gun problem. Period. It is caused by proliferation of handguns on American streets. It is accompanied by too many unresolved societal problems that are rendering the US less and less of a free nation. Nothing that any academic can say is going to change that, no matter how well written. America's most intelligent and respected writer could speak for 52 minutes in favour of slavery and that still would not make slavery acceptable. Some things cannot be rationalized.
No, America does not have a gun problem. It has a problem of societal decay. Go back 50 years and more households had guns and more children handled guns than today and yet we didn't have all of these issues.
America has a gun problem. Period. It is caused by proliferation of handguns on American streets. It is accompanied by too many unresolved societal problems that are rendering the US less and less of a free nation. Nothing that any academic can say is going to change that, no matter how well written. America's most intelligent and respected writer could speak for 52 minutes in favour of slavery and that still would not make slavery acceptable. Some things cannot be rationalized.
No, America does not have a gun problem. It has a problem of societal decay. Go back 50 years and more households had guns and more children handled guns than today and yet we didn't have all of these issues.
We will have to disagree. 50 years ago I was already a shooter and still shoot, and yes America has a gun problem today. It is part of the social problems you acknowledge. All iMO of course.
BTW, what is "societal decay" in your opinion? All western European democracies (the NATO countries) are much older than the US and they have not decayed so badly their streets are free fire zones? Canada has been a functioning nation as long as America and it is safer, freer and equals America in many of the indices of quality of life. America as a nation has more gross wealth than any other country but Americans are not that much proportionately richer than others. About the only three things America is consistently ahead of all the other western democracies in are anger, hate and violence.
Just guessing, but it looks like the poster of this post is a 2nd Amendment adherent. That would mean that the attached You Tube is a 52 minute apology and support of the 2nd Amendment? I don't think so. America has a gun problem. Period. It is caused by proliferation of handguns on American streets. It is accompanied by too many unresolved societal problems that are rendering the US less and less of a free nation. Nothing that any academic can say is going to change that, no matter how well written. America's most intelligent and respected writer could speak for 52 minutes in favour of slavery and that still would not make slavery acceptable. Some things cannot be rationalized.
This very video is directed at you.
No, America does not have a gun problem. It has a problem of societal decay. Go back 50 years and more households had guns and more children handled guns than today and yet we didn't have all of these issues.
We will have to disagree. 50 years ago I was already a shooter and still shoot, and yes America has a gun problem today. It is part of the social problems you acknowledge. All iMO of course.
BTW, what is "societal decay" in your opinion? All western European democracies (the NATO countries) are much older than the US and they have not decayed so badly their streets are free fire zones? Canada has been a functioning nation as long as America and it is safer, freer and equals America in many of the indices of quality of life. America as a nation has more gross wealth than any other country but Americans are not that much proportionately richer than others. About the only three things America is consistently ahead of all the other western democracies in are anger, hate and violence.
I bet we lead the world in affirmative action laws and welfare recipients.
We will have to disagree. 50 years ago I was already a shooter and still shoot, and yes America has a gun problem today. It is part of the social problems you acknowledge. All iMO of course.
BTW, what is "societal decay" in your opinion? All western European democracies (the NATO countries) are much older than the US and they have not decayed so badly their streets are free fire zones? Canada has been a functioning nation as long as America and it is safer, freer and equals America in many of the indices of quality of life. America as a nation has more gross wealth than any other country but Americans are not that much proportionately richer than others. About the only three things America is consistently ahead of all the other western democracies in are anger, hate and violence.
I bet we lead the world in affirmative action laws and welfare recipients.
Is that good or bad?
Just guessing, but it looks like the poster of this post is a 2nd Amendment adherent. That would mean that the attached You Tube is a 52 minute apology and support of the 2nd Amendment? I don't think so. America has a gun problem. Period. It is caused by proliferation of handguns on American streets. It is accompanied by too many unresolved societal problems that are rendering the US less and less of a free nation. Nothing that any academic can say is going to change that, no matter how well written. America's most intelligent and respected writer could speak for 52 minutes in favour of slavery and that still would not make slavery acceptable. Some things cannot be rationalized.
This very video is directed at you.
If so it was wasted. I don't have 50+ minutes to spare on an interview of an author pumping his merchandise. Nor do I have that much time to spare for a partisan monologue on a subject that so many of us have already spent so much time thinking and writing about. The post is introduced as a criticism of intellectual elitism attacking the second amendment argument. There is really only so much sensible that can be said about the basic 2nd Amendment argument, and the rest quickly gets into polemics (name calling and flaming). I don't have 50 minutes to spend listening to name calling. At its root the 2nd Amendment argument is simple. Either you agree or disagree. I have been a shooter for 50+ years and I disagree with where the current 2nd Amendment adherents have gone. IMO it is all about corporate greed and gun sales now. Freedom and decency are the last thing the NRA and the industry are interested in. In my opinion.
Just guessing, but it looks like the poster of this post is a 2nd Amendment adherent. That would mean that the attached You Tube is a 52 minute apology and support of the 2nd Amendment? I don't think so. America has a gun problem. Period. It is caused by proliferation of handguns on American streets. It is accompanied by too many unresolved societal problems that are rendering the US less and less of a free nation. Nothing that any academic can say is going to change that, no matter how well written. America's most intelligent and respected writer could speak for 52 minutes in favour of slavery and that still would not make slavery acceptable. Some things cannot be rationalized.
No, America does not have a gun problem. It has a problem of societal decay. Go back 50 years and more households had guns and more children handled guns than today and yet we didn't have all of these issues.
We will have to disagree. 50 years ago I was already a shooter and still shoot, and yes America has a gun problem today. It is part of the social problems you acknowledge. All iMO of course.
BTW, what is "societal decay" in your opinion? All western European democracies (the NATO countries) are much older than the US and they have not decayed so badly their streets are free fire zones? Canada has been a functioning nation as long as America and it is safer, freer and equals America in many of the indices of quality of life. America as a nation has more gross wealth than any other country but Americans are not that much proportionately richer than others. About the only three things America is consistently ahead of all the other western democracies in are anger, hate and violence.
I bet we lead the world in affirmative action laws and welfare recipients.
Just guessing, but it looks like the poster of this post is a 2nd Amendment adherent. That would mean that the attached You Tube is a 52 minute apology and support of the 2nd Amendment? I don't think so. America has a gun problem. Period. It is caused by proliferation of handguns on American streets. It is accompanied by too many unresolved societal problems that are rendering the US less and less of a free nation. Nothing that any academic can say is going to change that, no matter how well written. America's most intelligent and respected writer could speak for 52 minutes in favour of slavery and that still would not make slavery acceptable. Some things cannot be rationalized.
Just guessing, but it looks like the poster of this post is a 2nd Amendment adherent. That would mean that the attached You Tube is a 52 minute apology and support of the 2nd Amendment? I don't think so. America has a gun problem. Period. It is caused by proliferation of handguns on American streets. It is accompanied by too many unresolved societal problems that are rendering the US less and less of a free nation. Nothing that any academic can say is going to change that, no matter how well written. America's most intelligent and respected writer could speak for 52 minutes in favour of slavery and that still would not make slavery acceptable. Some things cannot be rationalized.
As always, if guns made us safer; we'd have the safest society on earth because we have, by far, the most guns in the hands of our citizens. Instead, we are one of the most dangerous societies when compared to other first-world civilizations.
No supporters of the 2nd amendment can explain why guns make us more likely to be shot...none even try.
Just guessing, but it looks like the poster of this post is a 2nd Amendment adherent. That would mean that the attached You Tube is a 52 minute apology and support of the 2nd Amendment? I don't think so. America has a gun problem. Period. It is caused by proliferation of handguns on American streets. It is accompanied by too many unresolved societal problems that are rendering the US less and less of a free nation. Nothing that any academic can say is going to change that, no matter how well written. America's most intelligent and respected writer could speak for 52 minutes in favour of slavery and that still would not make slavery acceptable. Some things cannot be rationalized.
As always, if guns made us safer; we'd have the safest society on earth because we have, by far, the most guns in the hands of our citizens. Instead, we are one of the most dangerous societies when compared to other first-world civilizations.
No supporters of the 2nd amendment can explain why guns make us more likely to be shot...none even try.
Just guessing, but it looks like the poster of this post is a 2nd Amendment adherent. That would mean that the attached You Tube is a 52 minute apology and support of the 2nd Amendment? I don't think so. America has a gun problem. Period. It is caused by proliferation of handguns on American streets. It is accompanied by too many unresolved societal problems that are rendering the US less and less of a free nation. Nothing that any academic can say is going to change that, no matter how well written. America's most intelligent and respected writer could speak for 52 minutes in favour of slavery and that still would not make slavery acceptable. Some things cannot be rationalized.
As always, if guns made us safer; we'd have the safest society on earth because we have, by far, the most guns in the hands of our citizens. Instead, we are one of the most dangerous societies when compared to other first-world civilizations.
No supporters of the 2nd amendment can explain why guns make us more likely to be shot...none even try.
I bet we lead the world in affirmative action laws and welfare recipients.
Is that good or bad?
It's a lesson. See if you can learn from it.
Is that good or bad?
It's a lesson. See if you can learn from it.
One thing it teaches is that when a nation cannot meet the needs of its people through its unlegislated culture the law can be used to fill necessary gaps. To the uneducated such laws often invite criticism. Study reveals that without laws to intervene an economy will regulate itself into feudalism or its equivalent, where people who are not born wealthy literally can never become anything but what they were born as. America's right wing is trying to go there now - the middle class has shrunk by 40% since Reagan.
Is that good or bad?
It's a lesson. See if you can learn from it.
One thing it teaches is that when a nation cannot meet the needs of its people through its unlegislated culture the law can be used to fill necessary gaps. To the uneducated such laws often invite criticism. Study reveals that without laws to intervene an economy will regulate itself into feudalism or its equivalent, where people who are not born wealthy literally can never become anything but what they were born as. America's right wing is trying to go there now - the middle class has shrunk by 40% since Reagan.
