OH PLEASE! Why would you worry about alienating the “black helicopter crowd”? They have no political value and are a purely destructive community force.
Like everything else, the gun debate comes down to money. If they pass legislation to expand background checks that means less weapons sold in the long run. This means less profits for the gun industry and even less contributions to the NRA. We can’t have that!
“A visibly emotional Biden indulged no such circumspection”
Without denigrating the true sorrow and horror over Sandy Hook, I wish our politicians were as moved to focus on long term solutions and addressing a culture deteriorating further into poverty and violence. Their shallow determination to fix the problem with legislation is realistically ineffective as long as the core issues are left unattended.
Those issues are huge. Unemployment, poverty, inadequate educational training, drug abuse, crime, lack of effective mental health care, the list continues. But as long as the legislators can say “look we passed a bill” so we’re doing our part," the core problems continue. I am the first to say background checks are needed, but that is just a very, very small piece of the puzzle we have to reconstruct.
Attached is an interview with a man that is so far left a progressive that it makes me itch, but he has some very succinct points on our violent culture.
The government is controlled by the Democrats. Why would they have problems with allowing investigations into hard right terror groups? Also, what about groups like ELF or radical enviromentalist gropus? I can’t imagine too many of them have Romney bumper stickers on their cars.
Chillbilly about 11 years ago
OH PLEASE! Why would you worry about alienating the “black helicopter crowd”? They have no political value and are a purely destructive community force.
d_legendary1 about 11 years ago
Like everything else, the gun debate comes down to money. If they pass legislation to expand background checks that means less weapons sold in the long run. This means less profits for the gun industry and even less contributions to the NRA. We can’t have that!
Mickey 13 about 11 years ago
“A visibly emotional Biden indulged no such circumspection”
Without denigrating the true sorrow and horror over Sandy Hook, I wish our politicians were as moved to focus on long term solutions and addressing a culture deteriorating further into poverty and violence. Their shallow determination to fix the problem with legislation is realistically ineffective as long as the core issues are left unattended.
Those issues are huge. Unemployment, poverty, inadequate educational training, drug abuse, crime, lack of effective mental health care, the list continues. But as long as the legislators can say “look we passed a bill” so we’re doing our part," the core problems continue. I am the first to say background checks are needed, but that is just a very, very small piece of the puzzle we have to reconstruct.
Attached is an interview with a man that is so far left a progressive that it makes me itch, but he has some very succinct points on our violent culture.
http://truth-out.org/news/item/13982-violence-is-deeply-rooted-in-american-culture-interview-with-henry-a-giroux
warjoski Premium Member about 11 years ago
The government is controlled by the Democrats. Why would they have problems with allowing investigations into hard right terror groups? Also, what about groups like ELF or radical enviromentalist gropus? I can’t imagine too many of them have Romney bumper stickers on their cars.
pirate227 about 11 years ago
Truth hurts, especially for the “black helicopter crowd”.Good one, Joe.
Michael Peterson Premium Member about 11 years ago
Truth should not be said aloud