The tragic violence this weekend in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, is met with pundits and politicians trying to identify the problem and offer fixes.
"Some will blame it on guns, some will blame it on mental illness, some will blame it on video games and media. The problem is deeper than that.
"There is no one variable we can change for a quick fix for large scale violence," said Ed Martin, president of Phyllis Schlafly Eagles.
"There is no one variable we can change for a quick fix for large scale violence," said Ed Martin, president of Phyllis Schlafly Eagles.
"Yes, there is too much glorification of violence in video games, movies, and television. Yes, we need a better mental health system. But until we address the decline of the American family we won't see a lasting solution to mass shootings.
"The best thing American citizens and the government can do to prevent future tragedy is to rebuild our culture of strong families! Phyllis Schlafly pointed to this in her 2014 book, Who Killed the American Family? It's a conversation we must continue to have. President Trump recognized in his remarks this week that it was the person, not the weapon, to blame for these killings. It's time to take a step further! We need pro-family policies and a pro-family culture to match. Gun restrictions and even mental health systems won't fix the problem. It's a culture problem that must be addressed at its roots."
"The best thing American citizens and the government can do to prevent future tragedy is to rebuild our culture of strong families! Phyllis Schlafly pointed to this in her 2014 book, Who Killed the American Family? It's a conversation we must continue to have. President Trump recognized in his remarks this week that it was the person, not the weapon, to blame for these killings. It's time to take a step further! We need pro-family policies and a pro-family culture to match. Gun restrictions and even mental health systems won't fix the problem. It's a culture problem that must be addressed at its roots."
Crazy liberals are always trying to point out how these mass shootings don't happen in other countries that restrict gun ownership, as if there's some obvious connection there.
ReplyDeleteYeah and the crazy liberals also try to point out that it is always right wing nut jobs who do the shootings as if Dayton didn't happen.
DeleteYeah, and they's just a buncha godless heathens who ain't chipping in with all the thoughtin' and prayin' to be done!
DeleteNope, just a bunch of finger pointing hypocrites.
DeleteI may be a godless heathen, but at least I know that Dayton isn't Toledo.
DeleteGreat point. Because the name was mentioned wrong, let's pretend it didn't happen.
DeleteShooters may tend to be far right extremists, but it is the left's policies in urban areas like Chicago, Baltimore, Memphis, etc. that contribute to gun violence everyday.
ReplyDeleteBoth sides have blame.
Guns?
ReplyDeleteLet's stick to mental illness. If guns weren't available a car into a crowd works. Fertilizer works. Box knives to high Jack planes to use as weapons works.
After the OKC bombing the sale of fertilizer became extremely regulated and restricted. After 9/11, scrutinous passenger carry-on screening was implemented to keep box knives and other weapons out of commercial airplane cabins. If we began to consistently experience attacks on crowds of pedestrians in this country I have no doubt we would come up ways to mitigate that as well. Yet guns, THE very one thing that every mass shooting has in common and cannot be committed without, remain widely available. This country's failure to address gun violence is a glaring inconsistency, given how we have otherwise always at least attempted to solve serious problems.
ReplyDeleteYeah... its guns. Not people. People have no blame in taking an inanimate object and abusing it.
DeleteLook, do we need better screening processes? Sure, why not? But if someone wants to do harm, they will find a way.
Uh, that was my point. Taking inanimate objects out of the equation and out of the hands of those that would do harm.
DeleteYour point does not address the issue. Mental issues in our society is the issue. Addressing guns does not cure the sickness that drives a killer.
DeleteEvery country on the planet has people with mental health problems. Yet, we have all the mass shootings. I wonder why that is?
Deletehttp://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/mass-shootings-by-country/
DeleteHere ya go, Sparky.
Could it be that anytime there is a mass shooting elsewhere that the U.S. media doesn't harp on it for weeks on end so that people in this country aren't aware?
Stop being manipulated.
Let's liken guns to Marijuana. A significant amount of the population wants marijuana to be legal but it hasn't been. There are those law abiding citizens who refrain from using marijuana because it is illegal. However, there are also those people willing to break the law in order to posses marijuana. So, if guns are deemed illegal, are they going to magically disappear? Nope. The people who really want them will still acquire them.
Cue the liberal response in...3...2...
DeleteOh nevermind, there won't be one.
Building strong families is a great idea and a hard task. Ted Bundy had a great relationship with his mother and he had a healthy appetite for murder. Sometimes there are rotten people who do horrible things regardless of how strong their family is. FYI: Not everybody can control their cholesterol with a pill. Sometimes biology controls us. All we can do to reduce mass murder is to get a tighter control on weapons that do the most damage in the shortest amount of time.
ReplyDeleteBlue pill. Here swallow.
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