It's a country whose leaders, business people, and opinion-shapers have long stressed winning...at virtually any cost. This self-obsessed and merciless culture has bled into everything from sport to household arguments about tv remote controls.
At the same time, studies have shown a higher prevalence of guns in religious households. Surely the more religious you are, the more you'll believe in the sanctity of life. I mean, these are probably the same people that stand outside abortion clinics harassing anyone going in. I can't wrap my head around the sheer hypocrisy, and the fact that it's managed to go on for so long without repurcussions is deeply disturbing.
Yup. The exact same people who fight to preserve the death penalty and even call for mothers who have abortions to be charged with murder and receive the death penalty.
You've got the nail on the head. It's the system that's fecked not all people.
Does he though? Have you read the ten comandments
This is what I meant, chief: these people only use religion to appear morally superior to others. And scripture gets bent out of shape to coincide with their own prejudices.
Well feck god and feck them.
Which specific laws do you believe are "causing all these gun related problems".
I don't think you quite understand of the history of minorities in America and why probably 70-80% of the black and latinos I know support gun ownership.
So being a minority makes you feel safe by owning guns?
Minorities or even just poor people that cannot count on police protection (you should compare 911 response times in rich neighborhoods to poor ones) you are going to have muster a much more compelling argument to get them to support gun control than the condescension and hands in the air "woe is America omg wtf" that usually comes from the Europeans online.
So you must shoot each other. Sounds about right
It's not minorities. It's the uneducated poor.
I'm not really sure what your point is here but let's just tackle one simple issue:
If no one had guns you wouldn't have to.
Hawaii briefly.
That's fecked up. But fire with fire just makes more fire.
There was a little girl that went to an embassy on her own when her teachers told her not to.
Sorry Billy, I'm too busy for the Zen Koans today
you'll have to more blunt with me today hahahDoneSorry Billy, I'm too busy for the Zen Koans today
I've never been black or anything apart from white. I can't think about what you lot (culture and skin) go through. It sickens me. There's nothing I can say to heal that void. (I'm apologing for being white lol)Sorry Billy, I'm too busy for the Zen Koans today
I think the issue is much more nuanced and so is the solution than the typical European response to mass shootings of "America fecked" etc.
I had an incident like this a couple years back. When I went on a tour of the grand canyon, the helicopter tour guide was an american guy. We talked quite a lot, and he was a really good guy overall. Smart, seemed level headed etc. And then the topic happened to drift to guns, and it was like the person I was speaking to before completely vanished. The most memorable line from what we spoke of is that he said "If the government wants to take his guns, they're going to have to come to his house and pry them from his hands, and he isn't going down without a fight." It's the crazy the dichotomy that exists in seemingly normal american people when it comes to the topic of guns.
Not all religious people are bad. On the other hand, most of the worst people I know, both personally and on a global scale, tend to be religious people. Finding a pretext for your tyranny and all that I suppose.
Its not crazy though is the thing. It is a rational result of a completely different set of socio-historical influences (culture of honor, frontier culture, lack of war fatigue and distrust of law enforcement for both legitimate and imaginary reasons).
Socio-historical influences aren't supposed to override fecking logic when said logic is slapping you in the face everyday in the form of innocent people being gunned down in mass shootings. Also going by your previous posts, he was a run of the mill middle class white guy so your minorities/poor people explanation doesn't fly here.
