The world is a better place without guns?

[Bocephus]

Received this in an email

Once again, the nation has witnessed a horrible, pointless act of violence, with innocent children the victims.

And, once again, we hear from liberals that the answer is gun control.

If we look at what generally characterizes the mindset of those -- generally young men -- who commit these acts, we see what generally characterizes the mindset that has taken hold of our whole culture.

Victimhood, blame and denial of personal responsibility.

Can this be an accident?

Kudos to The Wall Street Journal for having the courage to point to these incidents as signs of a "social and spiritual" problem in the country. "The rise of family dysfunction and the decline of mediating institutions such as churches and social clubs have consequences."

The signs of a society that is sick are all around us: the collapse of family, the collapse of interest in marriage and having children.

In 2021, 107,000 Americans died from drug overdoses, an all-time high and a 15% increase over the previous year.

According to the National Institute of Mental Health, the suicide rate in the U.S. increased 35.2% from 1999 to 2018.

Suicide was the second leading cause of death among young people, ages 10-34, and the fourth leading cause of death among individuals ages 34-44.

A characteristic common to suicides and mass killings is that the perpetrators are disproportionately men.

Men -- generally young men -- commit indiscriminate mass murder, and men take their own lives at a rate almost four times higher than women.

So, men demonstrate in a most unpleasant way another truth that our liberal friends want to deny. Men are different from women -- not just in physical makeup but also in spiritual, psychological makeup.

For whatever reason, our increasingly Godless, materialistic, morally empty culture seems to take a particularly heavy toll on men.

American Enterprise Institute scholar Nick Eberstadt has looked into the recent phenomenon of prime-age men -- ages 25-54 -- who have bailed out of the labor market. These are men who have stopped working and seeking work. The official label is NILF -- not in the labor force.

According to Eberstadt, the total number of NILF men held steady in the 1940s and 1950s at around 1 million. Then in the late 1960s it exploded. There are now 7 million prime-age men who have withdrawn from the workforce.

According to the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, the labor force participation rate of men -- the percent of working age men in the work force -- was 86.2% in January 1950. In April 2022, it was 68%.

The labor force participation rate for women has almost doubled over the same period -- 33.4% in January of 1950 to 56.7% in April 2022.

We've gone from a culture centered on church to a culture centered on government.

According to Gallup, in 1950 over 70% of Americans belonged to a church. In 2020, it was 47%. Among those born between 1981 and 1996, it's 36%.

Over the same period, take of all levels of government from our GDP went from 22.6% to 43.4%.

Sanctity of life was devalued with Roe v. Wade. Military conscription was abolished around the same time, erasing any personal responsibility, beyond paying taxes, that men have to serve.

In this vacuous culture of entitlement and meaninglessness, lost young men periodically make their presence known through violent expressions, sometimes directed at others, sometimes toward themselves.

I do not pretend that this is simple. I certainly agree that security measures should be taken, particularly in schools.

George Washington warned the nation in his farewell address that there is no freedom without faith, tradition and personal responsibility.

The same liberals that have helped wipe this out now want more government in the way of new gun laws to solve what is a cultural and spiritual crisis.

Preach it, Brother!

 

[Area51]

Always remember, even the biggest Dunce cannot be wrong 100% of the time...by accident!!!
This “Oops, we messed up” is just a ruse. They don’t care about you, your property or your children. And they most definitely are NOT trying to fix it!

Just a number and an insignificant one at that.
Revenue stream, remember its a some what democratic free enterprise system, its the money, always has been always will be.

 

[Davidheart]

"The world is a better place without guns?"​

How about: The world would be a better place if guns were not needed.

Truth. Sadly there will always be evil people trying to do evil things. Only hope we have is in Jesus changing the hearts of individuals... in the meantime we have guns.

 

[gpoldblue]

Just remember.......There wouldn't be a United States of America if it weren't for guns!!!

 

[Dusty Stevens]

Just remember.......There wouldn't be a United States of America if it weren't for guns!!!

Youd be speaking japanese if there wasnt a gun behind every blade of grass. What are we going to do when theres not a gun behind every blade of grass?

 

[rebel]

We are there Dusty. Been there for a while.

 

[Coyotefurharvester]

Only going to get worse, as we continue to allow the UNELECTED to make social decisions. The World Economic forum is pushing for complete control of all Energy,Food, Health and Environmental management using social equity. Half of Trudeau's cabinet is self proclaimed supporters of the WEF, now you know why the truckers were crushed for voicing their concerns. You will not have your U.S. constitutional rights, if the the WEF gets their way(democrats are supporting the agenda 100%). Obama ushered the WEF into the Whitehouse, Biden has many of the same bodies.

 

[Bill K]

"The world would be better off without guns" Tell that to the millions murdered by governments that banned private ownership of guns and took them away, prior to rounding up citizens and putting them too death in camps/prisons, via gas, hanging, shooting them and who know how else.
Many in the U.S. government, Canada and other places are wanting to follow this same reasoning and in the end, control all citizens.

 

[markT]

Remember when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?

 

[Adam in WI]

Gun Control & Genocide — Fr. John Peck

frjohnpeck.com

 

[Dusty Stevens]

"The world would be better off without guns" Tell that to the millions murdered by governments that banned private ownership of guns and took them away, prior to rounding up citizens and putting them too death in camps/prisons, via gas, hanging, shooting them and who know how else.
Many in the U.S. government, Canada and other places are wanting to follow this same reasoning and in the end, control all citizens.

Theyre working on not teaching that anymore

 

[rwj]

Not what the title suggests!

Why Guns Must Be Banned Now!

Here's exactly why it is a good idea to ban all guns now!

rumble.com

 

[jds holler]

Not what the title suggests!

Why Guns Must Be Banned Now!

Here's exactly why it is a good idea to ban all guns now!

rumble.com

I can't tell ya how much I enjoyed that. Thank you. We need to get that one out there. jd

 

[Kracken McGraw]

“The U.S. is well below the world average in terms of the number of mass public shootings, and the global increase over time has been much bigger than for the United States. Over the 20 years from 1998 to 2017, our list contains 2,772 attacks and at least 5,764 shooters outside the United States and 62 attacks and 66 shooters within our country. By our count, the US makes up less than 1.13% of the mass public shooters, 1.77% of their murders, and 2.19% of their attacks. All these are much less than the US’s 4.6% share of the world population. Attacks in the US are not only less frequent than other countries, they are also much less deadly on average. Out of the 101 countries where we have identified mass public shootings occurring, the United States ranks 66th in the per capita frequency of these attacks and 56th in the murder rate. Not only have these attacks been much more common outside the US, the US’s share of these attacks has declined over time.” — John Lott, The Center for Crime Prevention

 

[Davidheart]

Youd be speaking japanese if there wasnt a gun behind every blade of grass. What are we going to do when theres not a gun behind every blade of grass?

Move to Idaho.

 

[6fatrat]

Not in my world.
Steve Bair

 

[MFG_BOP]

am so glad I left new zealand for good after 15 years. same bullshit there! problem there is not only the banning of guns and loss of freedom (if you wanna know, I can send you a PM explaining why). people say amen to anything the govt tells you to do!

 

[Ricochet007]

When pests get out of hand we seek to use pesticides but when people kill each other they seek to manage the tool and not the people. I makes not sense to me.