Garand Illusion
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Wow. Read the following from a newspaper in Chicago. They recognize that guns are only a small part of the problem, but all of their solutions involve the guns.
The big question is ... if you have a human ready to pull the trigger to kill another human being, even if you take away the gun you still have a human ready to kill. And as an older guy who remembers streetgangs from before they had so much drug money and so many guns, there are plenty of ways to make lethal and maiming weapons. Motorcycle chains, car antennas, knives, broken bottles, baseball bats, etc.
But hey ... let's just pass laws to make sure no law abiding citizens have guns and then we can say we've done something, eh?
Stop the Killing: Chicago’s Mayor Daley Calls Emergency Gun Summit
I guess that since a liberal can't take the moral position of trying to fix other issues (any parenting style is fine, drugs are part of life and are a victimless crime, welfare is as good as a job, it's only normal for young people to be rebellious against authority) trying to remove guns is all he has left.
The big question is ... if you have a human ready to pull the trigger to kill another human being, even if you take away the gun you still have a human ready to kill. And as an older guy who remembers streetgangs from before they had so much drug money and so many guns, there are plenty of ways to make lethal and maiming weapons. Motorcycle chains, car antennas, knives, broken bottles, baseball bats, etc.
But hey ... let's just pass laws to make sure no law abiding citizens have guns and then we can say we've done something, eh?
Stop the Killing: Chicago’s Mayor Daley Calls Emergency Gun Summit
We can't stop trying.
The problem is guns. No, it's not about guns.
The problem is bad parents. No, we can't make bad parents good.
The problem is drugs. No, we can't stop the drugs.
The problem is jobs. No, we can't bring back the good jobs.
The problem is our schools. No, we can't ask our schools to solve all the problems that flow from broken families and broken neighborhoods.
But we can't stop trying.
In a dramatic gesture, Mayor Daley has called for a summit at City Hall today to search for solutions to the bloodbath of violence -- almost all of it involving guns -- that has swept across Chicago's neighborhoods in recent weeks.
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And you, our readers, responded as we had hoped and believed you would. You wrote and called to say you stood with us, to say you stood with anybody -- from the Sun-Times to Mayor Daley to the Rev. Michael Pfleger -- who was serious about getting rid of the guns, stopping the killing and protecting our children.
I guess that since a liberal can't take the moral position of trying to fix other issues (any parenting style is fine, drugs are part of life and are a victimless crime, welfare is as good as a job, it's only normal for young people to be rebellious against authority) trying to remove guns is all he has left.