When the social-inequality problems are solved, when
everyone who wants a job can get a job, when mental health is a priority for
our society and multiplying the wealth of the greediest of the greedy is not,
when education isn't neglected because of corporate empire-building and we stop
having wars of aggression for their benefit, then we could have very little
cause to attack gun ownership of law-abiding citizens. Gun deaths are caused by
a corporate-dominated government that promotes inequality in housing, health, and mental-health care, education, voting rights, and jobs that could provide a
fair standard of living for all. When students are free from bullying, attend
schools that provide them with a good education in a safe environment, there
will be far fewer students so disturbed that they vent their frustrations
through attacks against teachers and other students.
What is being proposed is an assault against the law-abiding
gun owners. This will reduce deaths in schools and movie theaters? I
think not.
There are many, many gun laws on the books in every state. The existence of
these gun laws doesn't keep guns out of the hands of felons.
If a felon steals a gun to use in a robbery or buys a gun he is breaking the
law. Have more repressive laws and he'll break them, too. He's a felon, right?
Existing laws that are not enforced protect nobody. More gun laws will protect
NO children. Adults who are violent and beat their spouses or their children
are prohibited by current LAW from purchasing ANY guns. Children are prohibited
by LAW from owning guns or using guns without a responsible adult present.
Enforce the existing laws.
Many seem to believe the lie that there are no background checks when guns are
purchased through licensed dealers. Background checks are done using states
records and those of the FBI.
Additional "Gun Reform" being proposed serves to distract us from the
real problems that we face. If 92% of Americans, 89% of Republicans and
74% of NRA members (a "Gun Reform" claim) believe that additional
laws will save kids' lives, there are too many who are sadly mistaken. They
have been overwhelmed by the press and the government's efforts to promote
restrictions on gun purchasers and not restrictions on the criminal element of
our society. Additional laws won't save the lives of children or adults.
Change the society that is so sick that it APPROVES of killing American
citizens anywhere in the world with Obama's drones and that APPROVES of the torture
of Bradley Manning and of foreign patriots who fight against corporate/
U.S. government empire-building.
Influence Hollywood and New York, with their obsession with violence in movies
and television shows that glorify those federal agencies that violate
dishonest and honest people's Constitutional rights, to produce better shows.
We seem to be moving toward national gun registration, which will not reduce
mass murders. National gun registration will not save lives. National
registration of guns and gun owners would be a disastrous mistake that will
harm only the law-abiding citizens. Further, it will serve to expand the
BATFE, a government agency that has shown way too much enthusiasm and
irresponsibility by turning guns over to Mexican drug-lords, resulting in
the deaths of tens of thousands of Mexican citizens and some U.S. citizens as
well and promoting the demand for more severe forms of "Gun
Reform." More gun laws are not needed.
Let's decriminalize marijuana to remove the huge profit motive for the Mexican
drug cartels. Legalization would mean that greedy pharmaceutical companies and
executives would reap the huge profits. Decriminalizing marijuana is a good
idea not promoted by the corporate world and/or the U.S. government. Legalization
is a bad idea that finds favor with the greediest of the greedy.
Let us solve our problems with honesty and well-reasoned society-reforming
steps, not with emotionally charged, illogical "Gun-Reform" laws.
Let's stop being corporation-controlled sheep who don't know how to think for
ourselves.
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