Must be me as I don’t find those words interesting at all; I do find wild assumptions being made not to mention that ocrenter stepped into the trap I set.
In my original comment I never mention god, in fact I’m an agnostic and I don’t even own a gun.
But ocrenter states I’m paranoid and yet has no idea what I might or might not supprt registration wise.
ocrenter then goes on to say godless countries have less gun violence. Wrong: those countries are NOT godless and they haven’t been as poisoned by the progressive/liberal agendas to the extent the US has.
You see ocrenter, it’s not about god per se; it’s about the solid value system and self-esteem more people than not derive from participating in a religion.
The libs have replaced that value system with relativism and materialism.
It’s not about guns, it’s about the person using the gun.
Two weeks ago Canada – which has strict gun control laws – had a “random” shooting.
A recent Harvard Study:
The study, which just appeared in Volume 30, Number 2 of the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy (pp. 649-694), set out to answer the question in its title: “Would Banning Firearms Reduce Murder and Suicide? A Review of International and Some Domestic Evidence.” Contrary to conventional wisdom, and the sniffs of our more sophisticated and generally anti-gun counterparts across the pond, the answer is “no.” And not just no, as in there is no correlation between gun ownership and violent crime, but an emphatic no, showing a negative correlation: as gun ownership increases, murder and suicide decreases.[/quote]
Oh No, I fell into paramount’s trap! How horrible, somebody help get me out!!!
In this country church is God, trap or otherwise. It is God first and foremost followed by everything else. This is why this country has a problem with mistakening morality with God. And this is also the reason why you mistaken proper upbringing with involvement with the church.
If it really was an intentional trap as you try so hard to prove, then there is also No need to lie about other godless countries with significantly lower homicidal rates. Europe as a whole is far more secular and far more progressive compared to the US, violent crime is less. Even Canada, a far more progressive country compared to us, has significantly less crime per capita as well as homicide rate despite your single event equal policy failure analysis.
Plenty of stats showing the US is leading the way in homicide rate, one can always cherrypick data to back up your claims.
