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Professor S · 05-08-2002, 07:57 PM

And yet another anti-gun argument that comepletely ignores the real issue with violence, which are the attitudes and society behind it.

Through your statements you basically proved my point. All you care about is making it a little better, instead of preventing violence all together.

I do believe that up until the 1960's and 1970's pretty much any gun was available to anyone in the US, correct? Then guns laws started being put in place, but yet the gun related violence statistics still kept on rising. Hmmmmm, makes you wonder don't it?

At the turn of the century (20th century, not this last one) gun ownership was common and almost expected, and I also believe that statistically gun related violence was very low. Now there are many gun laws on the books and gun violence is still rising?

So what is really to blame here, guns or the people and society who uses them?

This only goes to prove my point that while gun laws are like AIDS medications, they'll extend your life but in the long run you're still going to die. We should concentrate on the cure instead of the symptoms.

Teen shootings in schools are a perfect example of this. You sit there and blame the guns for horrors committed by sick kids and apathetic parents. The reason why they committed that crime wasn't because they got guns, it was because they had no emotional ties to the real world. they had no empathy for others. How else do you expalin a teenager laughing while shooting someone at point blank range. This is a result of a piss poor upbringing. And yet we blame the guns and sympathize with the poor messed up kids and parents. Thats rediculous.

I completely expect school shootings to keep happening as long as we continue to throw our children into child care with kids 30 deep. How much attention and effection do you think they get there? Enough to make them heartless killers is my guess. And to anyone who says that thats not true, it has been proven in many psychological studies that emotions and empathy are learned, not genetic. It has even been proven that if a infant does not receive enough physical touch/effection it will become mentally retarded. The way we raise children today has become a little too Aldous Huxleyan for me.

But I know a lot of you won't listen to a word I'm saying. You'll keep on spitting out everything you've heard on the news and feel that it makes sense because someone on TV told you so and its an easy target that is politically correct to hate.

Meanwhile, more gun laws will be passed and gun related violence will continue to grow.

Its kind of funny in a very sad way.

05-08-2002, 07:57 PM	#13
Professor S Devourer of Worlds Professor S is offline Location: Mount Penn, PA Now Playing: Team Fortress 2, all day everyday Posts: 6,608	And yet another anti-gun argument that comepletely ignores the real issue with violence, which are the attitudes and society behind it. Through your statements you basically proved my point. All you care about is making it a little better, instead of preventing violence all together. I do believe that up until the 1960's and 1970's pretty much any gun was available to anyone in the US, correct? Then guns laws started being put in place, but yet the gun related violence statistics still kept on rising. Hmmmmm, makes you wonder don't it? At the turn of the century (20th century, not this last one) gun ownership was common and almost expected, and I also believe that statistically gun related violence was very low. Now there are many gun laws on the books and gun violence is still rising? So what is really to blame here, guns or the people and society who uses them? This only goes to prove my point that while gun laws are like AIDS medications, they'll extend your life but in the long run you're still going to die. We should concentrate on the cure instead of the symptoms. Teen shootings in schools are a perfect example of this. You sit there and blame the guns for horrors committed by sick kids and apathetic parents. The reason why they committed that crime wasn't because they got guns, it was because they had no emotional ties to the real world. they had no empathy for others. How else do you expalin a teenager laughing while shooting someone at point blank range. This is a result of a piss poor upbringing. And yet we blame the guns and sympathize with the poor messed up kids and parents. Thats rediculous. I completely expect school shootings to keep happening as long as we continue to throw our children into child care with kids 30 deep. How much attention and effection do you think they get there? Enough to make them heartless killers is my guess. And to anyone who says that thats not true, it has been proven in many psychological studies that emotions and empathy are learned, not genetic. It has even been proven that if a infant does not receive enough physical touch/effection it will become mentally retarded. The way we raise children today has become a little too Aldous Huxleyan for me. But I know a lot of you won't listen to a word I'm saying. You'll keep on spitting out everything you've heard on the news and feel that it makes sense because someone on TV told you so and its an easy target that is politically correct to hate. Meanwhile, more gun laws will be passed and gun related violence will continue to grow. Its kind of funny in a very sad way. __________________