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IL: "Together We Stand, Divided We Fall" - The Danger of Politicizing School & Public Shootings
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Let's take the most dangerous weapons - automatic weapons and bump stocks - out of civilian hands, and create guidelines that make the process more stringent to obtain guns. Why don't we at least TRY these limiting measures to SEE if there is some measurable impact. YES, this may not be the complete solution, but we can start here and in the other areas I outline below.
I know people want their guns as a means of self-defense. Are there a lot of stories out there of people using their guns to save their lives? I'm not seeing those at all. I'm only seeing how guns falling too quickly into the wrong hands is contributing to the deaths of a lot of innocents.
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MarkHamTownsend
(3/24/2018)
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You're not seeing the self defense?
You're not looking.
500,000 to 2,000,000 times a year it happens. |
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| I do believe that where there is a choice only between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son asked me what he should have done had he been present when I was almost fatally assaulted in 1908 [by an Indian extremist opposed to Gandhi's agreement with Smuts], whether he should have run away and seen me killed or whether he should have used his physical force which he could and wanted to use, and defend me, I told him it was his duty to defend me even by using violence. Hence it was that I took part in the Boer War, the so-called Zulu Rebellion and [World War I]. Hence also do I advocate training in arms for those who believe in the method of violence. I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honor than that she should in a cowardly manner become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonor. — Mohandas K. Gandhi, Young India, August 11, 1920 from Fischer, Louis ed.,The Essential Gandhi, 1962 |
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