What is enough, 90%? I don't know if we can get the required number to agree the sun comes up in the east.
Highland Park Shootings
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What is enough, 90%? I don't know if we can get the required number to agree the sun comes up in the east.
The crazies who are shooting people don't value lives anyway.
Making examples out of them by showing other would-be crazy shooter what will happen to their mutilated bodies might make them think twice.
Public executions should be implemented.
Those are stupid ways of protesting. One of my wife's friends from Punahou School (she and Barrack, then Barry, Obama both graduated from there) is a very liberal pro-choice person and she posted on Facebook that she took a knee during a MLB ball game during the National Anthem. That's not the kind of protest that garners much sympathy or support.
So we should just ignore the Constitution, since it's so difficult to change? Just disband the Supreme Court?
Or maybe you think Democrats should get to choose which parts of the Constitution you are required to follow?
So why doesn't your Party introduce legislation that will amend the Constitution??
Why do you only bitch about it - do something!
Current consequences certainly aren't much of a deterrent. Until morale improves....
No, cultural issues. Breakdown of family, drug culture, rise of anti-Americanism in the Universities, etc.
Look at the statistics you posted. Less fetal deaths. Less people in poverty. We should be heading into a utopia based on the arguments you often hear as the fuel for what happens in our inner cities and around the country. We have less racism, less poverty, better health and people who feel like they cannot let their kids walk to the neighborhood park unattended.
The idea that anyone could make a compelling argument that life in the 1950's was better for everyone, even with the blatant racism, should be insane. However, I think that there is an argument there. That is going to be controversial, there were the Emmitt Tills that were terrible. Just awful. However, we see boys like him going to the morgue daily now and it is just kind of the way the world is now, shoulder shrug. We replaced his racist killers with 5 guys who look like him and exponentially kill boys like him.
What we have been doing is a failure.
My niece posted in advance of 4th of July that she would be wearing black all day. I am not sure if she followed through or not.
I enjoyed the music, the fireworks, flew my flag during daylight hours, didn't dishonor the flag by using it as clothing or displying it unlit after sunset, and I generally enjoyed feeling the sense of patriotism and appreciation for our country and for the defenders of our freedom. I refuse to let such sentiments be monopolized by the hate mongers in our society.
Sadly, if you fly a flag these days, people will incorrectly assume that you are a Trumpish traitor.
I enjoyed the music, the fireworks, flew my flag during daylight hours, didn't dishonor the flag by using it as clothing or displying it unlit after sunset, and I generally enjoyed feeling the sense of patriotism and appreciation for our country and for the defenders of our freedom. I refuse to let such sentiments be monopolized by the hate mongers in our society.
Sadly, if you fly a flag these days, people will incorrectly assume that you are a Trumpish traitor.
Legislation just passed by Congress and signed (or will be) by the President provides funding for the states to implement Red Flag laws and policies and requires enhance background checks for those under 21 who wish to buy a gun. Like IUCrazy, I'd be good with banning selling guns to those under 21, but we have to go at this in incremental steps, and there are some incremental steps in this bill. Of course, many of us would like it to go further and maybe they will in the next bill.
Here’s what is in the Senate’s gun bill — and what was left out.
The Senate passed the most substantial gun safety measure in decades. It includes enhanced background checks for younger buyers and money for mental health and school safety.
Now do crime, families without both parents, suicides by gun, suicides by drugs, and black homicide rates. And the national debt that all this 'progress' has run up.
EDIT: And mass shootings/killings
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Figuring out why that happened might be the most important thing our generation does. I doubt we'll agree too much but I think the one thing we might agree on is that the War on Drugs has been an abysmal failure.
Any commodity which is both illicit and plentiful creates organized crime. That we didn't learn that from Prohibition is astounding. The crime which arose disproportionately affected African American communities. Again, the "why" can be debated but the facts are the facts. Millions of black kids have grown up without fathers/mothers/brothers or with families of broken folks who can't get jobs b/c of their criminal histories. Which furthers the income gaps. Which furthers the education gap. Until one day (probably already happened) there is no gap, it's just two different worlds.
Reeling that back in is on us. How to do it.......well, that's the rub.
War on Drugs for the bolded. Maybe even suicide too if we agreed drug use is a health issue and not a criminal one.
There's no silver bullet. But as Crazy noted, we are better off than we were in the 50's but something is decaying in our society. Why that's happening.....I don't know specifically.
Some crime has changed dramatically. But the murder rate in 1960 was 5.1/100,000. In 2019 it was 5.0/100,000.
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So our murder rate is pretty much the same. Burglary is down. Other crimes (rape in particular) are way up. But at least some of the rape statistic is due to far better reporting. Aggravated assault is way up.
Your family sounds like a blast. My neighbors all put flags out. No one assumed they were "Trumpish traitors." They knew it was the 4th of July. You are a very strange duck
2019 is the wrong time to choose. It skyrocketed the last two plus years
I think a big part of the problem is the lack of 2 parent families.
When the government takes over the role as father, these are the consequences.
We may be better of economically - we should be, considering our economy - but socially we are going backwards. Quickly.
Hard to get stats that recent. But if his point is that 50 years of those policies have contributed to this, why dd it not show until the 51st year?
Nonsense. Your initial post was flame bait and it was successful.
Honestly Marv I didn't read any of it. I'm just saying the murder rate has skyrocketed the last two years - since 19
In this case he was not under 21 and (apparently) none of his family members had any concerns that would have led to any "red flags."
I also favor the under 21 ban. Even DeSantis allowed that to pass, in Florida of all places. It would help in some cases, but probably not this one, unless he bought his mass people killer 2 or more years ago.
The thing that would have helped here is a blanket ban on such weaponry. The 1990s era assault weapons ban was never deemed unconstitutional. It merely grouped such weapons with others such as nukes, cannons, hand grenades, tanks, etc., defining them as generally lacking legitimate civlian uses. If you are running a ranch in grizzly bear country, maybe you have a legit use. But put the hurdle out there to justify it.
Gotta be tied into the pandemic itself and responses. I wonder how many more domestic violence murders were committed just by people having to be around each other more.
Also, consider this...the black markets dominated by crime respond to economic forces like anything else. How did the pandemic response affect the drug trade. Was there consolidation or expansion? I would assume both come with violence.
Aloha reads fine. You have mental issues. I knew it when reading your made up MAGA stories last year. There's something wrong with you
Big time gun sales and gun trade. Less cops after the summer of love. And people went nuts from Covid
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I feel sorry for your niece. She’s gonna have a tough life unless she snaps-to soon.
Maybe.
But there is the problem of those who claim an odd right to a own gun in order to protect the right to own a gun.
"American love it or leave it" has been replaced by "America, love it and strive to make it even better".
Truly inspiring! Love the younger generation. My kids are so much kinder, more compassionate, and more accepting than my childhood friends were.
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Not for me, I've been too busy. But the larger population, I would suspect yes. Probably alcohol abuse as well.
I blame the USWNT. Millionaires crying about equal pay playing against countries where women from the other team were only recently allowed to even play or set on fire for attending games.
And, they depend on the willingness of law officers to enforce them too.
Some sheriff's candidates run on not enforcing certain laws
DENVER (AP) — More than a dozen candidates campaigning to be top law enforcement...
It's not a problem limited to liberals.
Has he been arrested and sentenced for use of controlled substances? LINK?
Has he been committed to any inpatient mental institution? LINK?
Here's a link suggesting that his gun purchases were perfected legal and citing family members describing him as quiet, lonely, but otherwise "normal".
What we know about the Highland Park shooting suspect | CNN
Hours after gunfire interrupted the Highland Park, Illinois, July Fourth parade, killing seven people and wounding dozens more, police apprehended the man they believe was responsible.www.cnn.com
you don’t end up looking like that without being a user or having mental health problems. He was home schooled because of his mental problems.
Mental institution does not mean inpatient
Until we fix the cultural issues nothing will improve. We need strong 2 parent homes. Parents need to stay married. Yes, it’s hard at times. Our kids deserve it.
We need to drastically change the qualifications for “disability”. More and more people spend more time at the psychologist trying to be deemed “disabled” than they do looking to better themselves. Once they are down that rabbit hole there is no getting out.
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