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In reply to the discussion: Repeal the 2nd Amendment petition at whitehouse.gov. No more special rights for guns. Enough! [View all]Quisutdeus
(12 posts)The sane solution is to direct focus upon the real problem, and not upon red-herrings designed to strip people of their rights to defend themselves against armed oppression/aggression.
[It has been said that the main reason Hitler never invaded Switzerland, is that every Swiss man was required to own a gun and was trained in its use - to this day, the Swiss still have one of the lowest gun crime-rates but with one of the highest rates of gun-ownership in the world. http://world.time.com/2012/12/20/the-swiss-difference-a-gun-culture-that-works/ ]
The real problem is not the prevalence of guns - if you think it is, just ask the families of the children slaughtered in Dunblane, a place where gun control is one of the strictest in the world.
In a society ("USA" which breeds more than its fair share of murderous killers, the real solution should be how to address that problem - perhaps an omni-lateral programme of a positively led return to values which are centred upon local community cohesiveness, social-inclusiveness, civic responsibility, and a sense of pride in one's civic duty, and a whole-sale departure from the "business-as-usual" politics of greed, materialism, kickbacks, selfishness, the bottomline, and the latest "me-Phone".
Simply blaming the rightful, safe and lawful use of guns by law-abiding, sane people isn't going to stop society in USA from cultivating it's annual crop of murderous killers, nor will it stop those killers from killing (again, I remind you to ask the Dunblane victims whether the strict gun controls in Britain, did anything to help them).
Opportune, reflex murderers like the Danzas of this world can be stopped, so long as weapons are securely stored with access only by the proper owners, who are responsible (as in the Swiss example, see above link) for the secure storage of fire-arms to prevent access by someone who is not the owner (as in Danza's case).
And equally importantly, there's the problem of reducing the astronomically high percentage of murderous killers "Born in the USA" - perhaps a start can be made by addressing the de-humanising effects upon those not naturally equipped to prosper in a society where social-acceptance is measured by the individual's talent for competing in the popularity stakes, or by whether they possess a geometrically balanced facial bone-structure, etc..?