He's gonna raise everyone's kids to understand guns and knives aren't the answer. That's a lot of kids and a lot of adoptions but if he's able to do it then father of the year.Quote:
Originally Posted by filghy2
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He's gonna raise everyone's kids to understand guns and knives aren't the answer. That's a lot of kids and a lot of adoptions but if he's able to do it then father of the year.Quote:
Originally Posted by filghy2
Maybe don't ban all drugs or all guns. How about just the most dangerous ones? We're not going to make heroin legal for recreational use are we? No. We can ban assault weapons. Yes, making something illegal creates black markets. But it would still be harder to get a black market gun than one from the local store. This is especially true for an isolated person who may act on impulse. But I don't know. Maybe you raising everyone's kids is the easier solution.Quote:
Originally Posted by MrFanti
How is that going to work in Florida where Stalin De Santis doesn't think pupils should discuss Race and Slavery, where books are banned, the word 'Gay' is banned? Given that Florida is making it easier to purchase firearms and kiddy-shredding ammo, the last thing this American is going to do is expect schools to educate children =who is indoctrinating whom?Quote:
Originally Posted by broncofan
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Originally Posted by Fitzcarraldo
Agreed. He sucks on the tit of Fox News by the sound of it, athought this quote is pure gold.
"Secondly, the Democratic party is dividing this country against each other. How if you go against abortion, LGBTQ community, black people to name a few. They call you racist, fascist, bigot, white supremacist and many other names. Because if you don't go along with what they are pushing. You're the most disgusting human being and nobody goes against Democrats"
If you are anti-abortion, anti-LGBTQ and anti black people ... I've news for you. YOU ARE a racist, fascist, bigot supremacist!!!
Your post has to be a parody, or are you really that backwards?
Put guns off the table and let's talk TRANS ACCEPTANCE.Quote:
Originally Posted by broncofan
Once again, that starts out in the home with parents educating their kids to be tolerant about all people.
It all starts out in the home....
Again, take guns off the table and lets talk TRANS ACCEPTANCEQuote:
Originally Posted by broncofan
Where does this begin?
Once again, in the home.....
For the older generations, acceptance is tougher thing to bring about - I know this as a Black American.
But kids are easier to teach acceptance than adults.....
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I'm all for a gun ban...
However, when I look at success reality of previous bans (drugs/alcohol) coupled with what's coming through at the border - I just don't know how effective it would be.
Would it put a dent in killing? Yeppers!
But we have to reduce the demand which once again starts with educating youth....
So what was the point of your previous 500 posts resisting the idea?Quote:
Originally Posted by MrFanti
What kind of gun ban? You'd have to repeal the Second Amendment to get rid of them completely, and that's not going to happen in any foreseeable future in this country. The Supreme Court has now said that gun bans (as in Chicago and New York) are unconstitutional. We had an assault weapons ban before, and that could be revived, but not with a Republican majority in the House. I suppose assault weapons could be banned at the state level, but that will only work in blue states currently. It'd be a start, but much more needs to be done.Quote:
Originally Posted by MrFanti
Republicans like to blame shootings on mental health, but they won't fund mental health treatment, and they won't deny guns to the mentally ill. And they also think that forcing teachers to be armed bodyguards for minimal pay with no training will prevent school shootings, so that shows where they are in regard to mental health.
Your brilliant plan seems to rely on intolerant parents being willing to bring up their kids to be tolerant.Quote:
Originally Posted by MrFanti
This is what he said previously, though as I noted he has expressed numerous positions at different times.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fitzcarraldo
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How so then?Quote:
Originally Posted by Fitzcarraldo
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Originally Posted by Stavros
The Republican party speaks about being for freedom, Liberty, the constitution, the Bill of Rights and anything and everything in between. They act like there the freedom fighters but at the end fall flat on their face. There are so many Rino's in the Republican party like Mitch McConnell, Mitt Romney, lisa murkowski, Brian Fitzpatrick and many others. Who win elections as Republicans but don't really support conservatism or the Republican party.
Secondly, the reason that we have issues in Washington DC (US CAPITAL) is because the Republican party and the Democratic party. Have two ways of governing this country. The Republicans want one way and the Democrats won another. Yet when the Republicans passed something that the Democrats can't go against. They scream and yell about how heinous and terrible it is. Then when the Democrats passed something the Republicans can't go against. They screaming yell about how heinous and terrible it is. Nobody in Washington as a whole party wants to work together to make United States better.
Finally, the guns are not the problem with this country's violence. Mental illness, dividing this country, soft on crime and no security are the problems! As I've said before, there are people in power who have been promoting and applauding violent activities. There are people in power like district attorneys who do not prosecute criminals and or support cops to go after criminals. If you look at big cities like Philadelphia, Chicago, Detroit, Baltimore, Portland, Washington, DC and many other big cities. Cities. Every single day there is violent crimes and people dying without a blink or a care by the mayors or DA's of that city. And these major cities are heavily ran by Democrats.
Spoken like a true bot.
In countries where it is almost impossible to get access to a gun, or other weapons, like for instance Japan, the crime rate is so much lower than countries like U.S.A.
It seems so obvious that it is so. Remove the possibility to get access to guns and other weapons and you remove the option to react in a violent, and deadly, way. If dialogue is not an option in some cases, then the option of leaving the "conversation" in peace should be the next.
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The Republican party speaks about being for freedom, Liberty, the constitution, the Bill of Rights and anything and everything in between. They act like there the freedom fighters but at the end fall flat on their face. There are so many Rino's in the Republican party like Mitch McConnell, Mitt Romney, lisa murkowski, Brian Fitzpatrick and many others. Who win elections as Republicans but don't really support conservatism or the Republican party.
- The American Revolution of 1776 was a Liberal Revolution, and thus poses problems for those who call themselves Conservatives.
In 1776 this meant supporting the retention of British America as a Colony of the British Empire, but clearly the definition has changed since then.
I suggest that what defines a Conservative in terms of 1776 is a belief that Govt should be limited, taxes and regulations either low or even non-existent. Now look at what happens when the Conservatives are in office, because they might cut taxes (Reagan, GW Bush, Trump) and lift regulations (Trump), but it is not clear that most Americans benefit from these measures. In some cases, eg East Palestine, they suffer.
Politicians love power, so when they have it they are reluctant to let it go -thus Ron De Santis in Florida imposes bans on textbooks in schools, even the use of words, as in 'Don't Say Gay' because of their sexual content -is the Holy Bible also a banned text? Plenty of sex and violence there!
Far from Conserving individual liberties, he is interfering with them in pursuit of another agenda. For Conservatives want to conserve policies that Liberal America has dumped -if not Slavery, then Segregation, conserving the Confederacy in all but name and a few details. The Religious element to Conservatism seeks to conserve the censorship of the Hays Code, and the laws that made Homosexuality illegal. They are seeking to roll back every Liberal policy adopted since 1954, but in doing so, cannot thereby defend the aims of the Constitution as a Liberal Document.
Secondly, the reason that we have issues in Washington DC (US CAPITAL) is because the Republican party and the Democratic party. Have two ways of governing this country. The Republicans want one way and the Democrats won another. Yet when the Republicans passed something that the Democrats can't go against. They scream and yell about how heinous and terrible it is. Then when the Democrats passed something the Republicans can't go against. They screaming yell about how heinous and terrible it is. Nobody in Washington as a whole party wants to work together to make United States better.
-You have a two party system which may create sectarian divisions, between and within the parties. But bi-partisan legislation is possible, such as the Violence Against Women Act of 1994, and the Disability Integration Act of 2019 sponsored by Democrats and Republicans. Newton Gingrich was a pioneer of sectarian politics which damns everything the opposition wants as 'Anti-American' so that Compromise, essential in an adversarial system like the US, becomes Surrender, or even Betrayal. If you then create a Personality Cult that would embarrass even Stalin, you have the Trump phenomenon, where L'état, c'est moi makes any disagreement a form of treason. Give it some thought, I mean, Trump?
Finally, the guns are not the problem with this country's violence. Mental illness, dividing this country, soft on crime and no security are the problems! As I've said before, there are people in power who have been promoting and applauding violent activities. There are people in power like district attorneys who do not prosecute criminals and or support cops to go after criminals. If you look at big cities like Philadelphia, Chicago, Detroit, Baltimore, Portland, Washington, DC and many other big cities. Cities. Every single day there is violent crimes and people dying without a blink or a care by the mayors or DA's of that city. And these major cities are heavily ran by Democrats.
-Guns kill people, that is what they are designed for, or to intimate and wound, just as the bullets guns use these days explode inside the body -shoot a six-year old and the walls and the floor will be splattered with their remains. And if it is the case that mental illness is the primary cause of mass murders, then why give lunatics the weapons they need to kill?
Here, is the miserable truth, that Republicans literally don't care who gets the guns, or what the consequences are, lifting all restrictions that might at least on some occasions prevent the crime taking place. I regret to say it but only in a deeply sick society is this volume of weapons of human destruction welcomed, not opposed.
America’s gun lobby counts major legislative victories after Nashville. Republicans shrug off reform (yahoo.com)
And the weapons (drugs) are hard to get as well for a number of reasons.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mirgofino
1) No huge border "leaks" like the USA
2) Japanese parents educate their kids at an early age that drugs/guns are not the way....thereby reducing the 'demand'...
Well Canada has a long border with a country awash with guns. It has long had much stronger gun controls that the US (which were further tightened last year) and it has a much lower rate of gun deaths. That suggests that geography is no barrier to addressing the problem - it's just a question of political will.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americ...on-2022-10-21/
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Why do you? Keep breaking once sentence into two?Quote:
Originally Posted by anonymous123
It also has a tiny, dispersed population, though. Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver are big. That's pretty much it.Quote:
Originally Posted by filghy2
Gun homicides per 100,000 population are 4.46 in the US against 0.52 in Canada. So the average American is 9 times more likely to be shot dead.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fitzcarraldo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...ted_death_rate
On a side note looks like Japan has a problem with sexual violence:
Young sexual abuse victims in Japan most often assaulted at school: gov't study
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles...0m/0na/021000c
Japan poised to raise age of consent from 13 in overhaul of sexual offence laws
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...l-offence-laws
47.3% of those who experience sexual violence in Japan stay quiet, survey finds
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/20...abinet-survey/
I suppose one could make an argument that this behavior dates back to at least their WW2 atrocities against other Asian cultures....
A thread on gun violence in the USA prompts a post on sex in Japan?Quote:
Originally Posted by MrFanti
So what about your country?
Child marriage in the United States - Wikipedia