I have never had any involvement in any gun-related activity, I have no desire to own a gun, and I cannot see what good has been done by the second most restrictive gun laws in the world.
Private gun ownership is compulsory in Switzerland and practically impossible in Japan. They are both very peaceable and orderly countries. They are also still politically self-governing and culturally self-respecting ones.
And, which is the present point, they have very traditional and effective family and community structures, such as both America with her Second Amendment, and a Britain which is gun-sodden and knife-sodden entirely regardless of the law, used to have.
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True. In the U.S., people probably had even easier access to guns 50, 60, 70 years ago. Yet, things like school shootings were pretty much unheard of. Now school shootings are a part of everyday life.
ReplyDeleteLots of people claim that the problem is a lack of mental health medication, yet we didn't have all this medication decades ago and there were practically no school shootings. Nowadays, if you are a rambunctious male child, you are put on medication as fast as can be. If you get into a fight in the school yard, you are potentially a serial killer. The result it seems: more medication, more massacres!
I think something else is at work here, I imagine a lot of it involves changes in the economy and the society, i.e. less togetherness, more alienation, more people spending too much time alone playing ultra-violent video games. But that is just my opinion.