gopiscrap
gopiscrap's JournalWhy is it that in Germany there were 194 gun murders last year and in the US...
there were 9,400+ being that Germany has 82,500,000 and the US has about 340,000,000 shouldn't we be at about 776 gun murders for the past year...what could be making the difference?
BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE NRA
Massacre at Univerity of Texas-Austin late 60's
Cafeteria shooting in Texas
Kilings at McDonald's in San Ysidro
Subway shooting in NY
Columbine
DC mall and highway Sniper shootings
Virginia Tech
Nickel Mine shooting
Police officer massacre in Tacoma, Washington
Coffee House killings in Seattle, Washington
Aurora Movie Theater shooting
So I see us becoming guarded in the same way as Isreal, everytime you cross the street you're gonna have to go through a metal detector.
Thanks a shitload fuckers at the NRA for allowing us to have relatively zero gun laws, creating a culture of killing and turning this nation into a paranoid armed camp that chases after death rather than life.
So once again to the NRA: FUCK YOU!!!!!
I blame the shooter and Reagan!
Obviously the shooter is the one who pulled the trigger, but besides personal responsibility, what got him there?
In many ways, I blame Reagan! In 1980 Ronald Reagan campaigned for the Presidency of the US mainly (IMHO) on two major themes: belligerence and selfishness.
Belligerence in the form of, we're bigger and stronger than anybody else, lets go looking for a fight. Beef up the defense industry and make my rich friends richer and keep this nation on a war footing. When a nation is constantly looking for a fight, that seeps down to the personal culture of it's citizens. Let's blame somebody and punish them so that we can feel better about ourselves.
The bigger and much more serious issue was his campaigning on the theme of selfishness. Reagan demonized those who are the least among us, the poor, the dispossessed and those who have mental illness. During his time in office he worked dilligently to cut aid to welfare recipients (the welfare queen, when only 1/10 of one % ever comitted fraud) and was successful in cutting funding for mental health by about 70%. Those folks who would have been institutionalized or housed in group home settings were left to wander the streets. By perpetuating our greed for a health care system, these folks also were not able to afford the meds they so desperately needed. When they acted out, they were jailed and many times once again, either demonized or abused.
Much of this has been magnified by hateful talk radio and the tea party assholes who are trying to high jack the common decency which once was the norm in this country! Just IMHO
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