05-24-2018, 07:17 AM
(05-23-2018, 05:13 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: What encourages spree shooters, is the easy availability of more dangerous guns. No, the stats are clear. America has the most guns, and the most violence using guns, regardless of race. The easy availability of guns in white neighborhoods and red states, arms the gangs in black and blue ones. No, it's the NRA and complicit politicians who lead to gun violence. Any use of a gun outside of the army or law enforcement is "gun abuse." We don't have a mental health problem that is any worse than other countries. We have a gun problem that is worse than other countries. I hope the Parkland students prevail; they are our future leaders. The wind is at our back on this issue now. We will move and run over the incrementalists and the gun advocates, and keep moving until Dr. King's granddaughter's dream is fulfilled, a society free of guns! Someday it will happen! I think maybe the NRA stirred up a hornet's nest when they killed 17 suburban school students.
This is the problem with 'debating' someone who refuses to become aware of the facts. There is a significant increase in gun deaths and violence among blacks. Among the other populations, the rates are similar to Europe. Eric creates 'facts' which aren't, which have nothing to do with the FBI data base or the real world. He has to to reach the absurd responses regarding prohibition that he has.
There has been a recent rise in spree shooting. It is not a rise which is dominant. Spree shooters are far outnumbered by drug related violence, but are far more likely to involve innocent victims. Addressing the real causes of the problem is far more constructive than insisting that one's lies are true and insisting on remaining ignorant.
Race and drug problems are real, as are spree shooters. Prohibition as a solution has not worked, and I am dubious about making it work. However, refusing to look at problems and pretending that other solutions are not possible is not rational either.
That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.