Mind's Eye Re: Newtown Killings

Maybe you should remember the centuries of wars as part of the
picture.//I think the original thoughts on the right to bear arms
derived from violating experiences in Britain and Europe. Plus our
coutry started on the wild side- animals and hostile Indians who
wanted their lands back, the Wild West, etc. One finally travels
during grandparent hours (9-3) and avoids the bar districts, etc. I'd
hire a bouncer to see a movie at night, I guess.

On Dec 16, 6:43 am, archytas <nwte...@gmail.com> wrote:
> It's impossible to think about tragedies like Newtown without just
> wishing they didn't happen and sorrow for the victims and bereaved.
> In western Europe we tend to see such events as American and a result
> of lunatic gun control.  A fair representation of this thinking can be
> found in today's Observer - a liberal Sunday broadsheet.http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/dec/16/newtown-shooting-...
>
> The gist is one in ten thousand will die through firearm use in the US
> every year with more deaths than in Syria in its civil war.  Arguments
> on this issue quickly degenerate with some saying the answer is to arm
> more decent people (so they can shoot the creeps and limit damage) or
> the right to bear arms to protect democracy from government.
>
> The real question is how we can stop scum, creeps, nutters and people
> pushed over the edge from using violence against others.  We are all
> frankly wide open to this and the problem of what happens to our
> societies because of measures taken in prevention.  I wonder whether
> answers to this may be well outside gun law and the NRA opposition to
> it - this 'debate' has, after all, gone nowhere forever - much as we
> have not prevented our governments pursuing imperialist wars or race
> to the bottom global economics.

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