These random mass murders by chronically mentally ill people may preventable tragedies, but gun control is not the way to prevent these mentally ill people from committing a crime.
Then again, many of these mass murders may not be preventable at all and are more a byproduct and symptom of our increasingly sick society . The basic problem is that we live in a free society and to regulate the mentally requires laws that, if abused, destroy those freedoms
As we see in the FISA abuses, laws put in place to protect the public from from violence by a vanishingly small minority of people , can be abused to damage the liberties of the vast majority.
We also have learned that the Progressive Left, when they assume power, will without exception, take these potentially intrusive laws, and abuse them and weapons them against the society that they hate
Stalin once famously observed regarding the famine he engineered in the Ukraine that served over 10 million people to death “If only one man dies of hunger, that is a tragedy. If millions die, that’s only statistics.” . Of course, that was just the start. Stalin then went on to mass murder items of millions more people, most his own friends and countryman
In order to maintain liberty and freedom in our society, it is infinitely preferable to risk, and even tolerate, the random and tragic acts of violence by a small number of mentally unstable people than to cede those liberties to soulmates of people like Stalin, Mao, Castro, Pol Pot, Le duc tho, Mugabe and others who have no qualms about emulating their role models when it comes to mass murder.
In a nut shell, I'm willing to tolerate the tragedy of a few random acts by the mentally ill to prevent the statistics of millions of victims of genocide engineered and perpetrated by the evil.
This is not some crazy fever swamp delusion. It's painfully obvious from the frankly bizarre and sociopathic and yet very public public comments and behavior of at least several of the current crop of Democrat presidential candidates. More frightening, is that they are successfully appealing to a like minded constituency that amounts a depressingly large segment of todays sick society
Then again, many of these mass murders may not be preventable at all and are more a byproduct and symptom of our increasingly sick society . The basic problem is that we live in a free society and to regulate the mentally requires laws that, if abused, destroy those freedoms
As we see in the FISA abuses, laws put in place to protect the public from from violence by a vanishingly small minority of people , can be abused to damage the liberties of the vast majority.
We also have learned that the Progressive Left, when they assume power will, without exception, take these potentially intrusive laws, and abuse them and weaponize them against the society that they hate
Stalin once famously observed regarding the famine he engineered in the Ukraine that starved over 10 million people to death “If only one man dies of hunger, that is a tragedy. If millions die, that’s only statistics.” .
Of course, that was just the start. Stalin then went on to mass murder millions more people, many them his own friend,. colleagues and countryman
In order to maintain liberty and freedom in our society, it is infinitely preferable to risk, and even tolerate, the random and tragic acts of violence by a small number of mentally unstable people than to cede those liberties to soulmates of people like Stalin, Mao, Castro, Pol Pot, Le duc tho, Mugabe and others who have no qualms about emulating their role models when it comes to mass murder.
In a nut shell, I'm willing to tolerate the tragedy of a few random acts by the mentally ill to prevent the statistics of millions of victims of genocide engineered and perpetrated by the evil.
It the price off a free society and a small price to pay to protect against the wannabe Stalins that are increasingly common in our dysfunctional political culture
This is not some crazy fever swamp delusion. It's painfully obvious from the frankly bizarre and sociopathic and yet very public public comments and behavior of at least several of the current crop of Democrat presidential candidates.
More frightening, is that they are successfully appealing to a like minded constituency that amounts a depressingly large segment of todays increasingly sick society