Posted on 09/01/2024 5:15:46 AM PDT by hardspunned
My stance on the Second Amendment is simple: I’m not going to take anyone’s guns away. I believe in the Constitution. But Americans need to work together to figure out why we have mass shootings every 21 hours. Something changed around the time of the Columbine shootings in 1999, and it wasn’t the number of guns in America. The National Institutes of Health refuses to investigate the mystery; in fact, Congress prohibits the NIH from researching the cause of mass shootings. Under my administration, that rule ends — and our kids’ safety becomes a top priority.
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Is any of this research based? Is there another option other than repeal the 2nd Amendment or don’t repeal it?
Is Big Pharma/ Big NIH responsible for school shootings? I have no clue.
Up until four months ago, I’d eat at McDonalds three or four times a week. “I’ve been eating there since the burgers were 15 cents each. My grandchildren love to go there. I led the lambs to the wolf. I was diagnosed with heart disease four months ago? Who could have known?
NIH/School Shootings, who could have known?
Is this approach of Kennedy’s legit?
When I watched the Carlson interview he did NOT look like a gun grabber to me. In the last twenty years has supported unconstitutional efforts to ban “assault weapons” and the like?
And I hope RFK Jr. is a man of his word on gun rights.
Makes one curious when SSRIs became mainstream
“I’d eat at McDonalds three or four times a week”
3-4 times a week ? Wow ! That’s asking for a heart attack . Proud to say I haven’t eaten at McDonalds either in the USA or Japan for over 30 years . No fast food joints for me .
That’s what I’m trying to find out. What are his actual words on gun rights? I’m not talking about his words prior to his thirties either. I’ll give him a pass on positions earlier than that, all things considered.
1) He deserves the space to evolve from previous positions as he adapts to his abandonment of the Democrat Party.
2) We should be wary of his past positions on many subjects which can only be described as whacky.
Of course he isn’t going to take gun rights away because he isn’t running to be president, or running to be in Congress now.
I suppose I believe him but geesh, why would people think he is in a position to take away gun rights?
Agreed. I only need about half the fingers on one hand to count how many times I’ve been fast food places in the last twelve to eighteen months.
Why do kids go into gangs, do drugs, steal cars, shoot people?
What changed?
How about looking at the destruction of the traditional family around the time of LBJ’s great crusades against poverty and racism? That’s when big government made the father unnecessary.
And it was supported by both dems and repubs.
These are the words of a gun grabber. 90% of “mass shootings” are inner city gang and drug violence. They have nothing to do with something like Columbine. He still wants to put the focus on the guns rather than the criminals. Look at the current epidemic of blade violence in Briton.
The social media had saturated the society with the affordability and availability of portable devices.
Combine that with the instantaneous news cycle and it becomes a social contagion that every disturbed kid and young adult wants to become famous by righting the incalculable wrongs committed against him in a very bloody and public way.
I’m a sucker for a “conspiracy theory”. Tell me the truth (conspiracy theory), Ronald is spiking my burger with addictive additives and you’ll get my attention.
Here’s a challenge for you that will make your eyeballs fall out and roll around on the floor. Go to ANY McDonalds in America tomorrow morning. You will find five to ten retired oldsters and their stints, drinking coffee, chewing the sausage, hot cakes and the fat. Go five days in a row. Every day, same old bull$hiters. Maybe they have an extra hot cake in remembrance as they drop off one by one with heart attacks.
I never got into that crowd.
I ain’t eating sushi, never.
This. Plus another factor is that “mass shooters” are usually boys from homes with no father. So they were never raised to respect the firearms and participate in what we call the gun culture. In an historically normal gun owning family, the father would teach respect for firearms, safety, etc. But when boys are raised on the street, that never happens.
The problem is that the democrat party and their communist cohorts have screwed up the mental health of so many Americans. And its all on purpose.
And it certainly does not help when you have a media that, in pursuit of it’s anti gun agenda, does not bother informing the public about key details of the mass incidents at schools. For example, the perpetrators of the Columbine tragedy rescheduled their bloody rampage to the day that the Colorado state legislature was to debate (and likely pass) legislation to allow law abiding citizens to obtain concealed carry permits for handguns. Both the young teenagers opposed this law and, IIRC, at least one of them wrote to their state legislator expressing this opposition. And that poor response time on the part of police and other emergency services greatly helped to contribute to the high death toll that took place.
Then I’m screwed. Go back fifty years and you got me.
How you gonna get rid of that NeverTrumper, Anti MAGA Uniparty stooge, Vance? You won’t go back 8 years on him?
Like I said, TWENTY YEARS on Kennedy. He’s too old a dog to be changing radically again if he hadn’t in the last 20 years.
anti depressant drugs that started being handed out to kids by doctors like they were candy messed their brains up!
“why we have mass shootings every 21 hours”
Poor impulse control?
Little to no future time orientation?
High time preference?
Or, are these things too hard for politicians to talk about?
Is there really any need for research on this topic? We’ve lost God & respect for others. We’re divided & encouraged to hate each other by the media. Social media has meant we play with things instead of each other - no strong relationships. The list is endless. It’s no wonder our kids are messed up.
Not just kids. I’m so angry these days I can hardly contain myself!
“Ever since the mass school shooting at Columbine High School, we can safely surmise that the typical American school shooter is likely to be a Caucasian adolescent male from a middle-class community who attends or attended a suburban high school. Further, the shooter is likely to be a loner, an outcast, and is described by teachers and peers as being socially awkward with a limited number of friends.
“Reports also indicate that the majority of school shooters were victims of bullying. Bullying continues to be a pervasive social problem among adolescents and includes both verbal and physical provocation in schools, as well as cyberbullying. Many of the shooters were ridiculed, belittled, demeaned, or even ostracized to the point where it might be assumed revenge or retaliation became a strong motivating force for their actions.”
“breakdown of the family due to increasing rates of divorce and single-parent households.”
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