American gun use is out of control. Shouldn’t the world intervene?

guns, Henry Porter

That’s America, we say, as news of the latest massacre breaks – last week it was the slaughter of 12 people by Aaron Alexis at Washington DC’s navy yard – and move on. But what if we no longer thought of this as just a problem for America and, instead, viewed it as an international humanitarian crisis – a quasi civil war, if you like, that calls for outside intervention? As citizens of the world, perhaps we should demand an end to the unimaginable suffering of victims and their families – the maiming and killing of children – just as America does in every new civil conflict around the globe.

Talking to American friends, I always sense a kind of despair that the gun lobby is too powerful to challenge and that nothing will ever change. The same resignation was evident in President Obama’s rather lifeless reaction to the Washington shooting last week. There is absolutely nothing he can do, which underscores the fact that America is in a jam and that international pressure may be one way of reducing the slaughter over the next generation. This has reached the point where it has ceased to be a domestic issue. The world cannot stand idly by.

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h/t Tim P

    
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Lastlogicstanding
Lastlogicstanding
11 years ago

Yea, that’s right we all know that guns kill people . Only the police and the government should have guns . That way when we are burglarized or attacked there won’t be a chance of us hurting or killing some poor person who was just in a bad way . There is absolutely no reason law abiding citizen should have the right to purchase and own guns. So what if they have gone through numerous background checks , it’s just not a right to own guns , who are those people afraid of? The government ? Just because every dictator took people’s gun rights away from them before murdering millions of innocent people doesn’t mean that would happen to us, this is America not some third world banana republic . We have to do something about the killings with guns and the best way to do that is just ban them and round up every single crazy gun owner in the country . I don’t know we could put them in some sort of safety camp or something . That way they won’t hurt themselves or those of us that feel threatened by them. I’m sure the federal government could do something like that:)

Harpo Marx
Harpo Marx
11 years ago

At the risk of being banned, I suggest taking a look at which group is doing the killing and who, for the most part they are killing. We have enough gun laws on the books right now to protect us, if those gun laws were actually enforced. We have laws prohibiting felons from possessing firearms, but how many repeat felons are arrested, tried, and convicted under those laws banning the possession of a firearm? The percentage of felons arrested and even tried under federal firearms laws for being in possession of said firearm is miniscule. How many thug types repeatedly get picked up for new crimes in possession of a firearm and nothing happens except the gun is taken away and the thug walks.. This, I suspect is by design. Taking the criminals off of the streets for a decade costs $$$$$$ that the government seems unwilling to invest. It also has a racial component to it that becomes the elephant in the room that no one seems willing to discuss.

Harpo Marx
Harpo Marx
11 years ago
Reply to  DRenegade

I have been banned at other sites for telling the truth. I would much rather be told the truth (as unpleasant as it sometimes is) than placated with soothing lies.

Tickling the ears of the congregation, telling them what they want to hear rather than what they need to hear often is the easy way out for everyone. The pastor doesn’t want to hear the deacons complaining that he gored someone’s favorite ox and the congregation wants to feel good. We’re living in dangerous times, brought about in a large part by political (in)correctness. Let’s say you have cancer that a doctor could cure if he did an operation. He’s afraid of confronting you about you having that operation so says nothing and you die from that cancer. Would it have been better for that doctor to say “YOU HAVE CANCER AND UNLESS I OPERATE YOU WILL DIE FROM IT” than to have avoided the issue? I would hope all of my doctors are blunt. Few, if any politicians are blunt when it comes to the troubles facing us as it doesn’t generate votes.

This country isn’t the country I grew up in. It isn’t the country my parents grew up in. We’ve let a minority of people tell us that standards don’t apply and there are no absolutes (good vs evil) and that moral relevancy is the SOP of the day. I once asked a guy if his wife were raped in their home if the rapist was wrong in doing that. His answer? “Depends.” I sure wouldn’t want to be his wife or child.

Gathering up stones and associating with like minded people so if we survive there might be a chance for civilization on the other side. Always wondered how a civilization could collapse in a few years. Unfortunately I may have a front row seat on the collapse of this country. The bad thing is that (if-hopefully) when it does, our demise will drag the rest of the world down with it. We’ll have dead zones due to contamination that make Chernobyl look like a storm cleanup. Not relishing that happening either.