No, we don’t have a gun problem. If anything, we have an issue with creating situation where some members in our society decide to take it out on little kids at school. These folks who engage in such acts come from across income demographics but practically all of them have had contact with our medical industry, many of them were on meds, and they had no support system to fall back upon to where they could be cared for.
Our system of government has gradually broken down the bonds of family & community and made everything a matter of an individual and the state. Our material wants have brought both dad & mom to workplace. A home maker and her contributions mean nothing when measured by our liberal economists. There is no value in our society to be a home maker and raise & care for a family. Many of the kids are outsourced to day care centers or left with electronic entertainment. When they act up, they are put on meds. And when they are totally lost and act out their frustration, these same economist geniuses wail against guns.
We created this cruel system ourselves, keep voting for its continuity and when such incidents happen, we get all righteous about the fact that this happens only here among developed economies.
I guess blaming guns is a lot easier way out than taking a hard look at our humanity & the cruel system/structures we have created that lets these poor folks fall to such depths that taking it out on little kids at school is the only thing they can do to show their frustration.
In terms of cost, it costs so little to provide a net for these about to be shooting perpetrators, a little bit of care for them, compared to the consequences. But oh no, we cannot talk about that, it is all about the guns.[/quote]
This is a well written piece, a nice departure from your dog-centric one-liners.
I do agree the problem we are facing is multi-factorial. But that does not mean guns are not part of the picture. If you want to look at it from a macro-analysis stand point, have the courage to include everything in play, and that includes guns.
So much that’s wrong with this country goes back to 50-60 years ago, with the development of the 2 parent working arrangement. Raising children is truly a full time position of great importance. When we make the decision to take both parents into a full time work environment, we ultimately do have a price to pay. That price can be seen in our divorce rate, our welfare payout, our waist, and ultimately the mass shootings.
With a double income family, both parents are stressed. The increased stress bring about the increased divorce rate. Which bring about the need for welfare. Meanwhile, with moms taken out of the kitchen, the country needs to rely on ready-made food and fast food, the end result is our obesity crisis. Children are raised by TVs and video game consoles, the pervasive violence from these sources then lead to increased violent tendencies. Meanwhile, our built in stress relief, aka our innate reliance on walking, is taken away from us due to the infrastructure we built for ourselves. The end result is rather predictable.
So now that we know what ills us, the question is what do we do? Do we keep the fatty and sugary food dirt cheap while we preach to the population to do better with food selection? In the meantime allowing the food industry to keep targeting children with their ads. Then scratch our heads and wonder how come preaching for better food choices don’t work? Same with the guns. Do we keep firearm cheap and keep them unregulated and plentiful and urge ownership responsibility and better therapeutic compliance for the mentally ill. Then scratch our heads and wonder how the mass shootings keep happening?
Is guns a easy target? of course not. But until we can get wholesale change in our society and culture that has to be part of the equation. Is targeting the food industry easy? probably even harder then going after the guns. But we have to because they are guilty of mass producing cheap and potent and addictive food/drinks that contribute to the decline of our health as a nation. These are not the only solutions, but they are part of the overall solution. Don’t exclude one item right from the beginning and label it the sacred cow that must not be touched. That doesn’t help, you know better than that.
