Active shooter FT Hood Texas

[JediMaster 451]

The only argument I've offered considering the "policing of individuals" is that we need to give them coping abilities and a respect for life. This doesn't happen at an adult age that needs to be policed. Parent's need to wake up and start parenting their children. We raise these monsters and then scratch our asses when they go out and kill half a dozen people for some stupid reason. You want xbox and playstation to babysit and teach this to your kids, well good luck re-spawning when it goes wrong. My position about removing the guns is if we do it will only shift to some other tool or vehicle because we haven't corrected the problem to begin with.

 

Paddle some ass and stop worrying about CPS, society will thank you later.

 

And thus begins the slippery slope. Who is to determine parenting that is substandard? Do we prevent people with "problems" from having children? Do we just rip the children away from their parents if they develop them?

 

It's very easy to say "we need to fix the people", but in practice it's pretty much impossible. The jails don't work--they don't deter, they don't rehabilitate, they just take a small number of the problems off the street. When our so-called leaders in DC are incapable of coming to any sort of agreement about what America should be, with half saying it should be the ideal of modern Western Europe (as if America is Europe) and the other half wanting 1950's white America (Ozzie and Harriet redux) and neither side willing to compromise any more, because getting elected now is about playing to the base and not those wavering in the other party, I have serious doubts they will provide ANY leadership.

[MAKO69 186]

Very slippy!

[+Erik 1,812]

I never said it was a simple solution nor did I offer anything other than an off-the-cuff fix. However, guns have been around a long time and they have certainly been easier to purchase or barter for than currently. Society has changed, rearing children has changed, influences have changed. All part of a social makeup that needs to be addressed or we will continue to be a victim of our own creation. The reality is that we won't give a damn because it's too big a problem or it doesn't impact us directly so it's not something individually we will worry about, though we should. We're a society that likes to have our cake and eat it too so we'll sit around and act shocked when someone somewhere reaches for a gun to solve a problem then blame the gun for our own short falls.

 

How about we develop a smart gun or personal force fields. If we are looking at technology or law to make up for our oversight then certainly this has to be on the table too.

 

There are many things we'll ignore and global warming is one of them. When it happens we'll all sit around, those that make it, and say what a cruel bitch mother nature is.

 

Evolution: It's not just painful and interesting but some people won't survive it. Good luck out there.