Posted on 08/16/2019 4:29:56 AM PDT by Kaslin
The Second Amendment is non-negotiable. It’s the glue that holds the Bill of Rights together. Benjamin Franklin once stated, “They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” I agree.
Whenever mass shootings happen power hungry politicians rush to microphones to exploit the dead and demand more gun control. But America doesn’t have a gun problem, we have a morality problem.
“Red flag” laws, which flip due process on its head, won’t stop mass shootings anymore than past gun control measures have. Laws address societal symptoms, but they can’t change one’s heart. Likewise, mental health patients are already concerned about the stigma that follows them. These laws will discourage them from seeking the help they need.
Let’s be rational, if gun control worked, gun related homicides in democratic cities like Chicago and Baltimore, that have the nation’s toughest gun laws, would be rare. But criminals don’t obey laws and there’s nothing we can do to stop evil and crazy people from doing evil and crazy things. If we allow bureaucrats to punish good gun owners by banning sport and self-defense rifles like AR-15s, what’ll happen when the next mass murderer uses a 9mm Glock, or a .38 Smith and Wesson revolver? They’ll ban those too! These laws are about control, not safety. If we’re not careful, the only guns left will be the ones criminals use to rob us with.
Democrats won’t stop until the Second Amendment is gone. They’re great at distorting facts and creating scary terms like “assault rifles,” and “weapons of war” to scare voters into submission.
Additionally, more handguns are used in mass shootings than rifles, a fact often ignored by the press. As for universal background checks, they already exist for new gun buyers and those same background checks are used at gun shows. The truth is leftists want to end private gun sales and stop parents from passing their guns down to their kids.
None of their ideas will stop mass shootings, but here are cultural solutions to reduce gun violence worth considering:
1) Reintroduce the 10 Commandments in public schools: Kids don’t know the difference between what’s morally right and wrong, good and evil and why objective truth matters if morals are subjective and arbitrary. When kids understand that there are immediate and eternal consequences for murder, because there is a God who watches above, we’ll see less of it.
2) Snitches should get rewarded: In the ‘hood and in jail, “snitches” are despised. This mindset has permeated society, and it’s one reason why “red flag” laws won’t work. Often people don’t snitch on a potential suspect for fear of retaliation and because they’ll be ridiculed by their peers. That’s why gun violence is so prevalent in inner cities where gangs and drug dealers are plentiful.
3) Digitally desensitized: Violent video games contribute to the desensitization to violence that we see in our kids. But, so do cell phones! I’m not in favor of banning either one. I prefer parental supervision. Today, social media and video games are raising many American kids. Look at how mean, disrespectful and bold kids are on Twitter. I’m convinced that Antifa is a tech revolution as much as they are a fascist revolution. Kids today lack human connection. They’re detached from reality and real people. They can’t handle disagreement because they can be as nasty as they want to be online without consequence or compromise. Mass shooters are a physical manifestation of digital courage left unchecked by real people in their lives.
4) Promote fatherhood: A father, mother and child are the ideal family unit. Although an intact family isn’t possible for everyone, we should encourage our kids to marry and make babies. When you consider that nearly 75 percent of black babies are born out of wedlock, it shouldn’t shock us when poverty and incarceration rates are high, and education isn’t as esteemed in black and minority communities. Dads matter! They impact their child’s self-esteem, intellectual development, independence, courage, social development, spiritual life, respect for the opposite sex, their ability to resolve conflict, and the list goes on.
Single mothers should find a safe, mentally healthy and stable male role model for their kids, excluding boyfriends. Preferably, a grandfather, uncle, fiancée, leader at church, sports coach, etc.
5) Expose “violent” juvenile offenders: Criminal records for people that were violent juvenile offenders should be considered when they want to purchase a legal gun as an adult. The Parkland and Dayton, Ohio shooters both had sordid pasts as youths. You don’t need red flag laws to recognize when individuals are mildly, moderately or severely mentally ill. If they’ve been professionally diagnosed as bipolar or schizophrenic, don’t sell them a gun. Also, make their criminal history publicly available, including to gun store owners. If former juvenile offenders aren’t diagnosed as bipolar or schizophrenic, and they’ve been productive, non-violent citizens for a length of time predetermined by the courts, restore their gun rights.
6) Arm yourself: American citizens use guns approximately 2 million times per year to defend their lives or prevent a crime. Why isn’t this ever reported? It simply doesn’t support the media narrative that guns are bad. The truth is, guns are used 7 to 8 times more for good purposes.
Reducing mass shootings requires a recognition of America’s moral failures, not more gun laws. The next heartless and evil mass shooter has already obtained a gun, legally or illegally. I’ve decided that I want to be armed to stop him. If you want to be a sitting duck, go ahead.
Any list that starts with “Re-introduce the 10 Commandments in School” is DOA. The only feasible things on the list are 5.) Expose Juvenile Offenders and 6.) Be armed.
Then it’s high time we eliminate those “politicians”.
I agree, but doubt it will ever be regarded as feasible. The options aren't there for too many people. Cheap private or parochial schools? They're not waiting to catch all the children unloosed from public schools. Many would never be accepted by any institution. It could be done gradually but it would need organization, vision, and determination by a large percentage of the people.
One alternative I've often thought about is outsourced homeschooling. The state laws generally require homeschooling (schooling by uncertified teachers) to be delivered by parents in the home -- with some latitude in some states. But if education, particularly in the lower grades, could be delivered via the free market, by competent private tutors, that might offer positive results. No maybe about it, actually, when in a certain metropolis we hear that zero public school children are where they should be in math and reading.
After all, baby sitters, even 8-hr daily sitters, aren't board certified and their wages aren't government set. Get some accrediting body (not necessarily governmental) to oversee and advise, with regard to the tutor's ability and the results.
Alternatives on a massive scale would need to be in place before ditching public ed, even gradually. As bad as it is, even intelligent people foolishly send their kids to the free indoctrination centers...and then compound the folly by paying through the nose for an additional four years.
The US is reaping what it has sown these past 50 years.
“One thing that I think would help both schools and society as a whole would be to stop tolerating this harassment by the left.”
I guess it’s a chicken-or-egg situation. If God were to be allowed back in America, people’s hearts would change and there would be less (or zero) harassment by the left.
When half of the country boos God and removes Him from their party’s platform, hearts become evil. When Satan’s agents see that prayer is removed from the children’s schools, hearts become evil.
Assimilation isn't happening - tribalism and toxic reactions to tribalism are are blooming like beds of stink weed.
Liberal Elites destroyed black culture in the 60's and replaced it with the inner city horror we have today - now they're attempting to do the same to the rest of the country. Absent fathers, culture alienation, non-stop pity parties, mindless violence - all fallout from liberal insanity.
Successful relationships between men and women is not a solution, it is more like the canary in a coal mine. When the canary dies, everyone else won’t be far behind.
And while I DO blame the educational system for a lot of this situation, I don’t think we can forget the media, liberal courts, and agenda driven Governmental idiots.
Fixing the school system is a good start, but I am afraid more is required.
Stop publicizing and glorifying the shooters in mass media. They are all united by one common thread: they are LOSERS who think that if they kill enough people, they will become famous and they view that as achieving something. If we stop making them famous for killing people, then maybe these losers will try to find another way to justify their existence, or just kill themselves without trying to take a bunch of people with them.
I entirely agree with you. The whole problem stems from the abandonment of God and the Christian (and Jewish) Faith. Even early American Deists, such as Jefferson, started from Judeo-Christian natural law as the basis for American society. However, that’s all gone now, replaced by positive law (meaning man-made, and whatever the State says, goes).
In my opinion the thing standing between Americans and a return to faith is the left wing politicization of the mainstream Protestant churches and the Catholic Church. But I think all Americans know what is missing in our national life.
Vote for Trump.
Not only do that,this nation NEEDS to come back to God.
After all, baby sitters, even 8-hr daily sitters, aren’t board certified and their wages aren’t government set. Get some accrediting body (not necessarily governmental) to oversee and advise, with regard to the tutor’s ability and the results.”
Now there is an idea! There are lots of people that would like a goal to set for themselves. Acquiring certification to teach in their homes or someone else’s home. If a student is not able to learn (for whatever reason) from the school that he could attend, let them learn under the guidance at home. As long as some progress can be established, the guidance could continue.
Shouldn't be difficult to make more progress than some public schools I can think of!
But that’s not really what liberal politicians want, is it?
“Common sense” - as “liberals” use the term - means nothing other than what cabal journalists think.
Didn’t that Las Vegas guy have a girlfriend?
But by and large I think you are correct.
I believe she was largely there for the money, so to speak. I also have a lot concerns about what his actual involvement was. That one had a ton of questions and then just went dead quiet. Very strange.
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