Comments | mckitterick: Guts, Guns, and God: What's Wrong with the USA?

mckitterick

Guts, Guns, and God: What's Wrong with the USA?

Jul 21, 2012 12:15

There's been lots of talk in the media about banning guns and so forth since the Colorado shooting. That's nonsense, even assuming we could collect every gun (and they likely outnumber American citizens) in this country, because the bad guys are certain to not turn in their weapons. But really, this is only a symptom ( Read more... )

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mckitterick July 21 2012, 18:13:14 UTC

In other words, we need lots more people like you out there. How to make that happen?

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Re: I don't know, tully01 July 21 2012, 20:26:22 UTC

Amen, Hawk. Been there, done that (volunteer recruiting). I put in roughly those same kind of annual hours, if at different things. Those who give a damn and want to give back will find you, if you keep the word out. They may be few but they're worth it.

And of course, the ones who bitch the most are the ones least likely to get off their butts. It would cut into their whine time.

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xinef July 21 2012, 18:15:17 UTC

Well put. May I share this (ie link to this blog post)?

mckitterick July 21 2012, 18:21:04 UTC

Thank you, and sure - my public posts are for public reading.

verminiusrex July 21 2012, 20:12:57 UTC

Part of the problem is sheer numbers. Switzerland has a population of around 8 million, the US over 300 million. You are more likely to get a smaller group in a tighter geographic area to agree on principles like mental health care and gun control than you can in the vast expanse of a continent where you have countless regions vying for their own agenda.

tully01 July 21 2012, 20:29:31 UTC

Switzerland is also much more ethnically/socially/culturally homogenous than the US. Same principle.

silverfae July 21 2012, 20:32:58 UTC

Yes. I don't think that a lot of the people spouting stats have a grasp of just how vast (and diverse) this nation is, comparatively speaking.

iainjcoleman July 22 2012, 10:17:28 UTC

Europe as a whole is no less diverse than the US, and substantially less violent.

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clevermanka July 22 2012, 01:06:57 UTC

You might get farther if you made a law declaring pictorial violence illegal on television, in movies, and in video games. As a nod to the First Amendment, the written word would be excepted from this ban.

Because prohibition always works.

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clevermanka July 25 2012, 13:07:56 UTC

Three days later, and this comment still doesn't make sense to me.

carmy_w July 23 2012, 19:10:23 UTC

"Solving those problems is HARD. The US doesn't seem to be a nation that has patience for long-term fixes; politically, our will is shorter than two years ( ... )