The problem is deeper than guns; it's
permissiveness.
The idea that foreigners (or "others") come to the USA,
not as Americans any longer, but to colonize this country and be parasitic separatists is bleeding us to death, in spirit.
Blacks are encouraged to celebrate their blackness; Hispanics their Latin culture; Muslims their Muslim culture, etc.
All of this creates
divisiveness,
not unity. We are now a veritable Tower of Babel. No one is
responsible; everyone is "entitled" ...
How many languages must I hit on my touchtone phone to hear an
English voice
in America?
My forefathers spoke German, but came to this country to
become Americans, to become productive contributors of this society,
not to create "a little Germany" inside the US, run welfare and health care scams, and speak only German.
I always respected a native-Colombian colleague of mine, Robert Contreras, who refused to be called "Roberto," when he became a US Citizen, but who insists that his name is now
Robert.
(His also does
not speak Spanish, unless dealing with a situation that calls for it, but speaks only English in public.)
In other words, Robert's family came here to the USA to become
Americans,
not to be yet another addition to the many little-Latin colonies of 100% Spanish-speaking invaders of this country, who do nothing useful here, but cause me to hit "One" on my touchtone phone now, every time I make a phone call, and who use my tax dollars to feed their families. Robert has always worked, always paid his own way, contributed to society with his self-created legitimate business, and teaches his children to speak the language that The Founding Fathers spoke (who created this country).
On and on it goes ... it is the difference between too many people parasitizing this country versus too few trying to become productive citizens.
Our very permissiveness, of letting everyone think and say what they want, of letting them get away with what they want, of letting them protest all they want, be anti-American if they want, with
no accountability,
IS the problem.
Without
standards, there is nothing to aspire to. People no longer come here to "be American," they just come here.
The sense of American unity is gone, the sense of being a melting pot where people
shed their past and become Americans is gone.
Now what is happening is other countries are just sending people to
colonize our country, not to become Americans.
The sense of dignity, of starting anew, is rapidly disappearing ... being replaced by a scheme to take advantage.
Hell, I could go on forever.
As far as blacks go, it
does boil down to the Chris Rock video Slobodan posted.
As a teenager, a white friend of mine got the bejesus beaten out of him by cops ... because he tried to get away on his motorcycle, didn't make a turn, and (well) anyone can guess what happened. He got the sh!^ knocked out of him ... and deservedly so. Had he reached for a gun, he too would be dead. Common sense.
If anyone looks at the rap sheets of the "dearly departed" black folks, they were
thugs, nothing more. Had they been productive citizens, doing the right thing, they would be fine today. Being a weapon-toting, mouthy, delinquent @$$hole to cops is a bad recipe for anyone, regardless of color. (If anyone wants to check out what it's like from the cops' point of view, watch
this video.)
As far as mass shootings go, they are again caused by lack of socialization, detachment, "me against the world" mental illness that again comes from
dis-unity (of family/country) and a whole host of reasons that are too complicated for an internet post. I don't think other countries get this as much, because they're all one nation, one people, one language, for the most part. Our country is different, and its very wide-spread diversity creates its own problems.
America has
always had guns, but it also used to have
standards for decency.
Now, with the news media, social media, wanton permissiveness ... and a whole plethora of symptoms of much deeper problems ... including a lack of pride, work ethic, and a total lack of responsibility ... are creating these killings. Not guns.
The killings/riots and basic lack of contentedness will continue to happen ... until the illnesses of our society are addressed ... most especially overpopulation + lack of accountability ... with or without legal firearms.
Jack
