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Originally Posted by Commander Wallace
As you said, I don't think more rules or regs are going to help or be particularly effective. A far better approach would be to simply enforce the laws we have on the books. Many gun dealers have said the same thing. If the govt. can't enforce the regs it has in place, what chance does it have with new laws ?
We must have a great sense of humor here in the U.S as we elect so many jokes to elected office. On the other hand, jokes are funny and this situation and our elected officials are anything but funny.
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Just darken your black sense of humour just a little bit more, and you can laugh yourself to death. Opportunities there are aplenty.
I agree, more laws will do nothing, and like I said before, I think it is a social, cultural, mass-psychological, mentality issue. If any changes short of just banning firearms shall have rewards, they must begin in reeducating a whole history, tradition, self-definition and culture. Adn that will cost time, probably generations, and holds its own risks, as we can see in Europe, where the home populations are increaisngly unable to consider force as a valid option to defend themselves. And thats makes them helpless against those who disagree on that taboo.
A wide mass-movement, much bigger than the students protesting now and the companies ending their cooperaiton with the NRA, however could maybe have an effect. Juzst that I find it difficult to prject what this effect will be like - if said protests would turn into a real big and long-lasting, enduring mass movement, big enough to bring down a government and threatening politician's careers by the dozens.
Or we will see that the pain and death toll simply is not high enough for America to change itself. Then people have to suffer what they must, and thats it. Stale routine in doing right that there is enough, bitter observers might have noticed by now. And like sex, funerals and stale speeches push TV quotas upwards. When "leaders" preach, many freeeze and stand at attention. Bravo. Nothing beats drill and routine.