Yea, Obama brought that up just in time for the Black Friday and the ensuing Xmas season.
Bob wrote, “All the Islamic terrorist mass killings end up at "gun free zones." By comparison there also was a recent Islamic attack in Texas where guns are encouraged. Result was 2 dead Muslim terrorists. None of the targeted audience was hurt. The areas with high rates of so-called "gun violence" happen where guns are outlawed. Most of middle America has very little crime of any kind.”
The mass killers and terrorists want a blaze of glory, not find themselves in a gunfight with their impact diminished. A gun shot could come from anywhere and they fear that. They attack with surprise on unarmed groups.
I’ve had a gun nearby all of my adult life and never needed it (I don’t carry a gun on me when naked. It feels like clothing). The odds of getting hit by a goofball’s bullet are nil for most people, especially in most places in the country. Still, there are those who think that it is a practical solution to disarm everyone, like that could happen at this point. Politicians and fascists manipulate with fear. Sometimes it “backfires.”
So, well put Bob.
In Arizona, you must be 21 to work in and visit a topless bar that serves alcohol, in a g-string of a certain width. You can be 18 working in a nude lap dance club which serves no alcohol. At one time, I’m not sure about now, you had to be 18 to buy Playboy, or any porn. Looking at these milestones in maturity, they are incongruent, it doesn’t make sense. All of this confusion and the results of it could be avoided, if all of the laws were dissolved and social change could be given time and opportunity to take place (One reason for the goofy age inequity was that 18 year olds were given the right to vote and drink at the same time, because they were old enough to be drafted and sent to war. But, the drinking part was rescinded and so was the draft). People raised to drink responsibly generally drink responsibly. Many of the 18 year olds that were given alcohol freedom didn’t know how to be responsible and some died before they learned, as they were cut loose with no training. Similarly, if the body was to be freed and people informed to make their own decisions and choices about their own bodies, this would be a very different place.
Education and experience goes a long way. Gun education should be mandatory in high school, teaching respect, the true danger of them and practical knowledges, like good driver’s education classes do. Education was Thomas Jefferson’s approach. His work started public education in America. He feared the uninformed and uneducated masses early on. My solution, drop the restrictive laws and mandate education making fully informed citizens.
Then there are the mental health issues. People get squeezed in this world way too much and some pop easier than others. There are ways for us to stop squeezing so hard, and learn to look out for each other.
Jbee
