RumTumTugger's pick for March 22nd 2005 ~ Mad_Gerbil gets to the soul of the matter

[RumTumTugger]

Originally posted by Mad_Gerbil in the thread Anti-Gun Nutcases on March 22nd 2005:

But rubia, what if you was 'damaged goods'? what if you was harbouring a volcano of rage inside. I've been there. For a while I wanted to walk down the main street and make people sit up and listen to me, to make them take note that I existed. A long time ago it was. But the rage was real. I think I could have killed, if I had the means, if I had gone too far, like Michael Ryan in Hungerford (One and Only knows who he is.)

Solly,

Taking away the guns masks the problem, it doesn't fix it.

Would you rather:

A: Spend a night in a locked room full of loaded pistols with a 15 year old boy who is well adjusted, consciencious, and kind

OR

B: Spend a night in a locked room with a single butter knife and a 15 year old sociopath who thinks he is a vampire?

Our society has taken G_d out of the schools, put away the paddles, and turned it's back on teaching responsibility and decency -- and then, then when the whole thing starts to fall apart they begin to blame guns.

I'm on this topic not because I like guns -- I hate the things -- instead, I'm on this topic because if we keep raising kids the way we are raising them it won't matter what we take away from them we'll still end up with these sorts of tragedies.

Cain killed Abel with a rock, Solly.
Until we address the soul, everything else is just bailing water.

Well Said Mad_Gerbil I haven't been able to say it as well.

[Epoetker]

And we've had only one major incident since then (I think that was with a machete, not a gun, anyway). Of course in the UK we have the occassional gun related murder, and gun crime is on the increase, but nowhere near the level of America. But at least our government is willing to take measures to curb gun violence.

And because nobody's afraid of civvies defending themselves anymore, violent crime as a whole has skyrocketed. Bats, knives, heck, even fists are now enslaving a population that I'll have to say has turned into cash cows for criminals. Of course they're not going to kill the people who can always be depended on to give them money to go away.

So triple the violent crime and increasing gun crime is the price to pay for gun banning. Whoop-dee-frickin-doo.

[Teallaura]

Good job, Gerbil!