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Paedantic Basterd · 12-21-2012, 10:04 PM

I won't claim any expertise on the matter, so please stop me where I'm wrong, but this is how I currently see the situation.

A) No other equivalent country has the same problem with firearms.
B) The banning of firearms has been successful for other countries in which they were once prevalent (see: Australia after the Port Arthur Massacre).
C) The biggest barrier to change to me looks like the nation's attitude towards

personal rights
personal responsibility

It seems to me that those two things clash with one another and create an environment in which these sorts of incidents are bound to happen. If we want to blame the guns, we have to take responsibility for the lax laws and the culture surrounding them. If we want to blame the person, then we have to take responsibility for a system that fails to take care of its citizens who need it. In either case, some kind of sacrifice needs to be made that most people don't seem willing to undertake for a greater cause.

12-21-2012, 10:04 PM	#256 (permalink)
Paedantic Basterd Music Addict Join Date: Sep 2010 Posts: 5,184	I won't claim any expertise on the matter, so please stop me where I'm wrong, but this is how I currently see the situation. A) No other equivalent country has the same problem with firearms. B) The banning of firearms has been successful for other countries in which they were once prevalent (see: Australia after the Port Arthur Massacre). C) The biggest barrier to change to me looks like the nation's attitude towards personal rights personal responsibility It seems to me that those two things clash with one another and create an environment in which these sorts of incidents are bound to happen. If we want to blame the guns, we have to take responsibility for the lax laws and the culture surrounding them. If we want to blame the person, then we have to take responsibility for a system that fails to take care of its citizens who need it. In either case, some kind of sacrifice needs to be made that most people don't seem willing to undertake for a greater cause.