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I am here to take the GUNS out of Train of Thought... That's power you can't buy
M Dogg™:
Okay, now that I have your attention... I just want to say this.
Remember, I am someone who owns guns, someone who believes in the 2nd Amendment. But just reading about all these children's deaths, many by accidental shootings, I question my own opinions, and I question who can own a gun. I am not use to arguing with Europeans in terms of their view of gun ownership. But I am starting to agree with them in some aspects. We have a cultural problem. We have a society in which parents don't know SHIT about gun ownership, and therefore their kids don't know shit about gun ownership.
I will pin point it to this. I feel that in 1968, when RFK and MLK were both shot, the WORST thing the US could do was go for stricture gun laws. At the time, our culture was that of guns as sport, and fathers and sons spent time hunting and sons knew how to handle guns. My father remembers this time, as he was in high school and his buddies and him went hunting after school, they even had guns in their trucks AT SCHOOL and no teacher said a thing.
Since this era, when gun laws started, people saw guns in a different light after the 60's. Dads didn't teach their sons about guns. In fact, at the end of the 60's, beginning of the 70's, the NRA, California governor Ronald Reagan and other conservative groups WERE for gun control. You know who wasn't
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/09/the-secret-history-of-guns/308608/
The Black Panthers! And it was this era in which people stop teaching their kids about guns. Since then people have NOT taught their kids about guns, and the end results have been people don't know how to handle guns. So the WORST thing the United States did was restrict guns, now the best thing the United States can do is require gun licenses. Before you pick up a gun legally, I feel you need to learn how to handle a gun. It's like driving, you are holding a dangerous weapon and that weapon you'll have around kids. You need to know how to handle it responsibly.
You know the one thing that seems to reduce violence, not more or less guns, but lead in gasoline. WTF? Mother Jones had found a study that links the rise and fall of crime to lead in gasoline. Also remember that lead was in our paint as well. So well we are looking for answers to figure out why we have such high murder rates, we should maybe look at our environment. We are the generation that has to know, WE ARE CLEANING UP A MESS. We need to know we have people holding guns that don't know how to use them, and we are recovering from a toxic environment that might have contribute to increase in crime over the last century. We need to stop becoming defensive of our rights, and figure out solutions. Keeping things the same is not a solution. I have a feeling in 30-50 years they'll say the same thing about the food and all the GMOs. But for right now, lets deal with this.
http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/01/lead-crime-link-gasoline
jeromechickenbone:
Well you worship Obama so of course you're now changing your views. Get rid of all your guns if you want MDogg. That takes the count in the US from 400,000,000 to 399,999,995.
And see my other thread if you want to see what the non retarded Euros say about banning guns.
M Dogg™:
--- Quote from: Jrome The Don Killuminati on January 14, 2013, 11:26:05 AM ---Well you worship Obama so of course you're now changing your views. Get rid of all your guns if you want MDogg. That takes the count in the US from 400,000,000 to 399,999,995.
And see my other thread if you want to see what the non retarded Euros say about banning guns.
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Worship Obama. I thought we came to the concussion I worship God?
jeromechickenbone:
--- Quote from: M Dogg on January 14, 2013, 11:42:05 AM ---
--- Quote from: Jrome The Don Killuminati on January 14, 2013, 11:26:05 AM ---Well you worship Obama so of course you're now changing your views. Get rid of all your guns if you want MDogg. That takes the count in the US from 400,000,000 to 399,999,995.
And see my other thread if you want to see what the non retarded Euros say about banning guns.
--- End quote ---
Worship Obama. I thought we came to the concussion I worship God?
--- End quote ---
I thought we came to the conclusion Obama was your God.
M Dogg™:
--- Quote from: Jrome The Don Killuminati on January 14, 2013, 12:03:22 PM ---
--- Quote from: M Dogg on January 14, 2013, 11:42:05 AM ---
--- Quote from: Jrome The Don Killuminati on January 14, 2013, 11:26:05 AM ---Well you worship Obama so of course you're now changing your views. Get rid of all your guns if you want MDogg. That takes the count in the US from 400,000,000 to 399,999,995.
And see my other thread if you want to see what the non retarded Euros say about banning guns.
--- End quote ---
Worship Obama. I thought we came to the concussion I worship God?
--- End quote ---
I thought we came to the conclusion Obama was your God.
--- End quote ---
I'm taking this advice on Jrome from now on.
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