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No, the Gun Culture Won’t Always Win
Submitted by:
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Website: http://libertyparkpress.com
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Too many guns. Too little hope. After each succeeding gun massacre, a dull fatalism grips the American mind. The victims of such massacres are counted in the thousands; the victims of individual murder, of suicide, and of heartrending accident by now are counted in the tens of thousands. Yet action to save lives is vetoed again and again by an implacable minority who see gun ownership as integral to their identity. |
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PP9
(6/3/2019)
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| There are not too many guns. There are too many criminals. They're a by-product of the poverty factory known as the welfare state. This factory is a favorite of writers of The Atlantic, as it turns out the one thing they need to win elections-- a constant stream of disadvantaged, helpless, dispirited members of the underclass that can be easily led to believe they need Democrats to save them. It's also why they favor limitless importation of members of the underclass in addition to their domestic manufacturing efforts. The last thing they would do is to do anything that would risk breaking the cycle of poverty and learned helplessness, for that would allow the underclass to rise from poverty and have no more use for a purported rescuer. |
| Comment by:
PP9
(6/3/2019)
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| The "implacable minority" included the founders of this country, who enshrined such rights in the Constitution of the United States, which trumps any culture (at least in theory... all it takes is judges who can read). |
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| [The American Colonies were] all democratic governments, where the power is in the hands of the people and where there is not the least difficulty or jealousy about putting arms into the hands of every man in the country. [European countries should not] be ignorant of the strength and the force of such a form of government and how strenuously and almost wonderfully people living under one have sometimes exerted themselves in defence of their rights and liberties and how fatally it has ended with many a man and many a state who have entered into quarrels, wars and contests with them. — George Mason, "Remarks on Annual Elections for the Fairfax Independent Company" in The Papers of George Mason, 1725-1792, ed Robert A. Rutland (Chapel Hill, 1970). |
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