The whole idea is to get the guns from filling a NRA-created market. The baddies already have the guns - with the serial numbers filed off. If you want to get a gun, you can find one in the high school parking lot - along with tobacco, alcohol, meth, crack, ecstacy, marijuana, and anything else your dad doesn't want you to have. Illegal makes it more expensive. But, if the guns and bullets weren't continuously manufactured, they would be less plentiful. Of course, the smarter criminals would steal them from rich Republicans= who could afford them - legally or illegally. They would also be busted for having one.
But, selling them in the hardware stores takes away any stigma of buying something that kills. You can still kill with a butcher knife or a hatchet. But, with a gun, it can kill you if you clean it while drunk or while young and dumb, or mentally disabled. The guns aren't always in the safe. They aren't always unloaded. They are a bomb that can go off by just removing the safety.
Why play with dynamite in the home? I wonder how many blasts of unstable explosive caused it to become illegal? It used to be the way tree stumps or big rocks in the road were removed. It's quite difficult to get C4. It is out there if you have money, though. What if it was available at the hardware store and everyone was allowed to have some hidden in their pockets?
Would you commit less murders if you knew everyone is carrying a gun? Does one commit murder for fun? A gun makes it a lot easier than a knife or hatchet.
We can talk all we want, but the reality is we are human animals and our natural instincts create these situations. Most of human technology was first created to advance military superiority; to kill better. Just look at what came out of WWII. Rocket science that took us to space, radar, the first useful computers and the invention of computing architecture--just a short list.
We are at a cross roads where our ability to kill one another has out paced our ability to empathize with one another. We Americans are devastated by acts of violence like what happened here in Tucson, but we are not even aware of the "collateral" lives we end every day in other parts of the world with our high tech flying robots. We just don't care about people we do not know from cultures we do not understand.
We talk peace, freedom and Christian morality while we invent, build and export the most dangerous killing machines the world has ever known.
One day, and probably soon, we will reap the harvest of death we have so righteously spread around the world. What will be our reaction when DC or NYC is nuked? There are two ways out: extinction or evolution. I, personally, do not believe human beings are more important to the universe than house flies. Our existence as a species is only of paramount importance to us. Our parents hoped we would have better, safer, more affluent lives--now our hope has to be that the science that envelopes us will make us smarter and therefore more aware of our interdependence and the need for compassion/empathy for all life.
I watched a couple of minutes of Palin's Alaska (already canceled), it was worse than local TV shows in the 50s! It does no good to blame people for being raised to be stupid. I don't blame her for anything--she is just a cheerleader--the Billionaires who thought she could be the Republican's Hillary are the blamable stupid ones.
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If you want to get a gun, you can find one in the high school parking lot - along with tobacco, alcohol, meth, crack, ecstacy, marijuana, and anything else your dad doesn't want you to have.
Illegal makes it more expensive. But, if the guns and bullets weren't continuously manufactured, they would be less plentiful.
Of course, the smarter criminals would steal them from rich Republicans= who could afford them - legally or illegally. They would also be busted for having one.
But, selling them in the hardware stores takes away any stigma of buying something that kills. You can still kill with a butcher knife or a hatchet. But, with a gun, it can kill you if you clean it while drunk or while young and dumb, or mentally disabled.
The guns aren't always in the safe. They aren't always unloaded. They are a bomb that can go off by just removing the safety.
Why play with dynamite in the home? I wonder how many blasts of unstable explosive caused it to become illegal? It used to be the way tree stumps or big rocks in the road were removed.
It's quite difficult to get C4. It is out there if you have money, though. What if it was available at the hardware store and everyone was allowed to have some hidden in their pockets?
Would you commit less murders if you knew everyone is carrying a gun? Does one commit murder for fun? A gun makes it a lot easier than a knife or hatchet.
Just look at what came out of WWII. Rocket science that took us to space, radar, the first useful computers and the invention of computing architecture--just a short list.
We are at a cross roads where our ability to kill one another has out paced our ability to empathize with one another. We Americans are devastated by acts of violence like what happened here in Tucson, but we are not even aware of the "collateral" lives we end every day in other parts of the world with our high tech flying robots. We just don't care about people we do not know from cultures we do not understand.
We talk peace, freedom and Christian morality while we invent, build and export the most dangerous killing machines the world has ever known.
One day, and probably soon, we will reap the harvest of death we have so righteously spread around the world. What will be our reaction when DC or NYC is nuked? There are two ways out: extinction or evolution. I, personally, do not believe human beings are more important to the universe than house flies. Our existence as a species is only of paramount importance to us. Our parents hoped we would have better, safer, more affluent lives--now our hope has to be that the science that envelopes us will make us smarter and therefore more aware of our interdependence and the need for compassion/empathy for all life.
I watched a couple of minutes of Palin's Alaska (already canceled), it was worse than local TV shows in the 50s! It does no good to blame people for being raised to be stupid. I don't blame her for anything--she is just a cheerleader--the Billionaires who thought she could be the Republican's Hillary are the blamable stupid ones.