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You are bang on here, Pal. I have to agree with this: “Any country with as many mentally ill people as the U.S. that allows virtually unlimited access to handguns is on a suicide mission.”
And will quote it in the future (along with credit to you).
Thanks..I’ve used that line for years; it happens to be true.
It is indeed!
I like that top quote as well and will quote it without credit to you.
Mr. Mann, mentioned the mental illness concern as well. Enjoy your articles at the Huffpo.
As an outsider to USA problems I am surprised by the way so many USA citizens assume their way of doing things is automatically superior to all other countries. Do they know so little about the standards of other countries? Are they surprised that American lifestyle is looked down on in so many parts of the world? Perhaps Hollywood gives them a cosy feeling that all is perfect. Nobody is perfect, but you can only improve when enough ordinary people recognise the problems.
Keep on raising awareness about guns & healthcare. I could list many more things that English people find distastful. We don’t like even a policeman to carry a gun, unless called out for a specific emergency.
I forgot to mention that it was 1911 when the National Insurance Act was passed in England. The government collected a subscription from every employer & worker. It gave free healthcare in Government funded hospitals to all workers, but failed to give healthcare to their wives and family. Nobody was required to have private insurance. Perhaps the USA will be better than England was in 1911. I have found private insurers in UK will not give 100% cover cradle to grave, especially when you have pre-existing conditions. Will they in USA? They are expert at wriggling out of things. Beware the small print.
I replied to your call for greater gun control with my own thoughts on the matter and have yet to hear a response of any sort from you in return.
Granted–your job likely keeps you busy and you have plenty of messages to read, consider, return, or otherwise deal with. Given your lack of response I will simply post some of my thoughts here instead.
Would banning guns eliminate crime? Obviously not as crime has been committed in times that pre-date the gun and crimes with guns have been committed since their outlaw in areas with restrictions.
Would banning guns save lives? Potentially, though it is just as likely to cost them as evidenced by the increase in violent crimes committed with guns in England after their ban.
Would banning guns prevent mass slayings? It’s possible, but only if the would be slayer is unambitious as it is far easier to acquire bomb making materials or an automobile by which to affect massive casualties than it is to acquire a gun. The only limit is ingenuity. Given that the preponderance of mass killings have an element of pre-meditation, it’s only fitting to assume that a ban on guns would merely prolong the planning (if anything). Perhaps, however, those in favor of banning guns should simply assume that those who wish to do harm will find no other way and lack for creative thought.
Do we, currently, need guns on any level to provide for our safety or defend ourselves from the tyranny of government? For the most part, I will gladly admit “no, we do not.”
Will we, have we, at some point need guns? Without a doubt in my mind. Life is continually divided by the “haves” and the “have nots” and should you ever find yourself in a power vacuum on either side in which violence comes to bear, guns will allow for justice to be served. Consider LA riots where senseless violence spilled over, affecting scores of innocents who were victims of circumstance or the looting that ensued in the wake of hurricane Katrina. For an individual to assume that our government will always be there to defend us, provide for our safety, and to never bear down on us in tyranny…it merely begs the question of how they ever had the forethought to realize that guns could be dangerous while insipid musings and misplaced delusions could not. Times will change; guns will be terribly convenient and worth more than their weight in gold…perhaps worth your very lives.
Mark my words, or don’t, but history has proven them, the present proves them, and I’m guessing the future will as well.
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