Re: Mind's Eye Re: Newtown Killings

Those that chose war and violence chose to live in the dark side of
the mandala,, forever in fear..
Allan

On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 10:07 PM, rigs <rigs117@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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-...
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>> 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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