and another thing
I know I neglected to lament the other recent university campus shooting spree, in DeKalb, Illinois. (The "s" is silent... and the "l" in DeKalb is silent if you are from the South.) I have absolutely nothing worthwhile to say about it... I feel a little numb.
And I feel conflicted. I don't own any guns, and I don't plan on ever owning any either. But I know people (who aren't crazy, and who do so legally) who do. I also want to be able to go to a shooting range and have at it one of these days.
On the other hand, it seems like the rather limited controls we do have are not uniformly applied throughout our grand republic, far too often resulting in tragedy. If accepting even more limits on our "right to bear arms" means we could avoid these sorts of mass killings, then I'm all for it. It's been said probably millions of times: if it can work for England, (and others), then why not here?
To paraphrase an anonymous classmate from my undergraduate years (the class was theory and practice of argumentation and debate):
I agree.
And I feel conflicted. I don't own any guns, and I don't plan on ever owning any either. But I know people (who aren't crazy, and who do so legally) who do. I also want to be able to go to a shooting range and have at it one of these days.
On the other hand, it seems like the rather limited controls we do have are not uniformly applied throughout our grand republic, far too often resulting in tragedy. If accepting even more limits on our "right to bear arms" means we could avoid these sorts of mass killings, then I'm all for it. It's been said probably millions of times: if it can work for England, (and others), then why not here?
To paraphrase an anonymous classmate from my undergraduate years (the class was theory and practice of argumentation and debate):
I don't think our founding fathers intended our right to bear arms to enable us to be able to reenact the Revolutionary War in our back yard.
I agree.
posted by Model Consumer at 22:09
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I'm no researcher, but it is often said that it DOESN'T work for England. There has been an increase in violent non-firearms crime according this viewpoint. Anyway, people point to England to demonstrate why further restrictions in America would be bad.
There is no easy answer, though.
DeKalb, Illinois. (The "s" is silent... and the "l" in DeKalb is silent if you are from the South.)
Hahhahahahahha. That's going in my quote book.
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