Inconvenient Truths
Despite recent media 'hoopla', FBI crime statistics show there has been a steady trend DOWNWARD, for all crimes, including VIOLENT crimes, and crimes with Guns.
By far and away, the vast majority of murders with guns involve HANDGUNS, (NOT 'assault rifles'), and the vast majority of officer involved shootings, the guns shooting police, being shot and aimed at police are also HANDGUNS; most commonly a semi automatic pistol, most common caliber a 9mm.
The Police are NOT being 'outgunned', as Biden asserted recently, by gangs wielding assaut rifles with high capacity magazines. Absurd statement, since coverage of Sandy hook makes it clear that even Police in relatively small town rural areas HAVE 'assault rifles', themselves, so where exactly is this 'outgunning' of police?
There has been a definite spike in shootings in certain subsets of the population, in certain geographical areas; inner city urban areas. The shooters are almost invariably 18-24 y.o. males, and so are the victims; its 'gang' violence, as the gangs fight over turf. Unfortunately, unlike earlier gangs in U.S. (Mafia, etc.) THESE 'gang-members' are not careful to restrict their shooting to rival gang members, and so 'innocents' are getting shot, as well.
Saw a 'presentation' by a Police officer with 20 years on the "Gang Intervention Task Force', to a group of parents. He said; "People THINK kids join Gangs because of Drugs, or peer pressure. I'm here to tell you, kids join Gangs for one reason; to get from the gang what they aren't and haven't gotten at home; Discipline, structure, and support."
So, instead of focusing on the 'right to keep and bear', we SHOULD be focusing on the (Unenumerated) right to bear and keep;,....children.
You only need to be physically capable, in order to produce a child. And some are 'manufacturing' sociopaths; no background check, no credit check, no testing to insure you have the slightest clue what it takes to raise a child into a 'productive' adult. But, thats not going to happen, of coarse.
Instead, even as our society produces more sociopaths, they are going to try to restrict MY ability to protect me and mine, from the sociopath someone else has 'manufactured', by incompetent parenting. Well, from my cold, dead fingers, M'F'er! Jim
Despite recent media 'hoopla', FBI crime statistics show there has been a steady trend DOWNWARD, for all crimes, including VIOLENT crimes, and crimes with Guns.
By far and away, the vast majority of murders with guns involve HANDGUNS, (NOT 'assault rifles'), and the vast majority of officer involved shootings, the guns shooting police, being shot and aimed at police are also HANDGUNS; most commonly a semi automatic pistol, most common caliber a 9mm.
The Police are NOT being 'outgunned', as Biden asserted recently, by gangs wielding assaut rifles with high capacity magazines. Absurd statement, since coverage of Sandy hook makes it clear that even Police in relatively small town rural areas HAVE 'assault rifles', themselves, so where exactly is this 'outgunning' of police?
There has been a definite spike in shootings in certain subsets of the population, in certain geographical areas; inner city urban areas. The shooters are almost invariably 18-24 y.o. males, and so are the victims; its 'gang' violence, as the gangs fight over turf. Unfortunately, unlike earlier gangs in U.S. (Mafia, etc.) THESE 'gang-members' are not careful to restrict their shooting to rival gang members, and so 'innocents' are getting shot, as well.
Saw a 'presentation' by a Police officer with 20 years on the "Gang Intervention Task Force', to a group of parents. He said; "People THINK kids join Gangs because of Drugs, or peer pressure. I'm here to tell you, kids join Gangs for one reason; to get from the gang what they aren't and haven't gotten at home; Discipline, structure, and support."
So, instead of focusing on the 'right to keep and bear', we SHOULD be focusing on the (Unenumerated) right to bear and keep;,....children.
You only need to be physically capable, in order to produce a child. And some are 'manufacturing' sociopaths; no background check, no credit check, no testing to insure you have the slightest clue what it takes to raise a child into a 'productive' adult. But, thats not going to happen, of coarse.
Instead, even as our society produces more sociopaths, they are going to try to restrict MY ability to protect me and mine, from the sociopath someone else has 'manufactured', by incompetent parenting. Well, from my cold, dead fingers, M'F'er! Jim
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