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Published: 2018-02-19 18:39:33 +0000 UTC; Views: 847; Favourites: 0; Downloads: 2
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Before we forget about the latest mass shooting and pretend to be shocked by next one...I don't even hate Trump, I'm fascinated by guns probably more than average French people and I do happen to think violence is more related to mental health than anything else, but... I do like the fact that I live in a country where you can't find a gun when you most want it... ( that precise moment being exactly when you shouldn't have one )
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I fear you may soon wish you still had the power to defend yourselves against a tyrannical government. The EU should have been formulated by the Articles Of Confederation. Why must that remain a loaded concept? How many times must we fuck up our Republics for failure to efficiently restrain irresponsible and irrational people from voting?
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Thanks for the comment.
To be honest, I have a very "unFrench" attraction toward guns and think 'classic' democraties are outdated...
I doubt real dictatorships are still possible in western countries, because our modern armies are more technocratic than anything else, they're not fit to run countries and probably wouldn't even want to take part in that... If that should happen, that'd mean the countries would have already fallen into chaos...
So, the "better have a gun in hand to defend yourself from possible tyranny" doesn't convince me much; and monopoly of state over firepower still makes sense.
I'm not opposed to gun ownership, and I admit setting criterions to decide who's fit to own one or not is a damn tricky issue; but still... Letting immature young guys who are by nature violent and unstable have access to machine guns?! A 21 yo guy now has the maturity of a teenager, with all the excesses attached.
It's the all-or-nothing position on that matter that's unsettling: the" it's not the guns, it's crazy people" argument implies that it's easier to cure people than to prevent a small number of them from owning a gun, and I don't think people can be cured...
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No, it starts with a culture of gun responsibility, and NEVER allow a majority of any following generation to come get lazy about it. Fathers who Respect The Gun, teach their Children to “Remember The Faces Of Their Fathers”, so to speak. Responsible Gun ownership begins at home, and baring that, a proper apprenticeship. In 90% of America, you cannot get a gun license until you’ve been certified by a pro at a training range, and you cannot buy your own gun until you get your license. If a certifier judges their student to potentially be a DIFFERENT kind of “certifiable” (if you’re familiar with the idiom), he can refuse to grant that person a license at his discretion and perhaps let the police know to keep an eye out for him, but only an eye if he hasn’t actually done anything yet. Nothing is foolproof, but wherever this system has been allowed to function organically, Gun crime is almost nonexistent, Statistically, (it was even BETTER back in the days that police could force someone they judged to be crazy to get a psych evaluation, but are no longer allowed to unless he was already violent). In fact, if you remove the top ten American counties (PARTICULARLY Cook County) with the MOST local ‘gun control’ laws from over the past 60 years from the international gun crime aggregate, America jumps like a rocket from one of the worst to one of the BEST countries in the world to live in. 80% of all our gun crime is super concentrated into those ten counties, or 95% if you include the next five worst afterwards. We have 3,111 counties; 3,096 that are perfectly safe ain’t bad. I forget them all off the top of my head, but if you want to be a tourist here, find out where those 15 are and AVOID them.
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It's honestly heartbreaking to know that our government is more concerned with protecting our rights to have a firearm rather then making sure students of any level are able to go to school without fearing for their lives.
It's ridiculous that this is the 18th shooting this year and Trump has yet to do anything effective to stop the problem. The people are furious and they're not going to take 'thoughts and prayers' as the only course of action.
Also, you did do an amazing job with this picture. The bullets look well drawn and I like how the bodies are laid down each reflecting a different massacre. It's sad but very powerful.
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Bullets are the only thing that are not hand-drawn... with the "president" lettering...
Always feels strange to add my own "two cents" in a debate far from my dayly reality but inspiration came after this Florida shooting...
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Yeah, I figured that this was based on the recent tragedy.
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Yes, stop issuing guns to loonies!
Ooops! was that a bit politically incorrect?
When we hear all this our prayers are with . . . bollocks,
I thought the best remark I heard was:
Our prayers are with all those young people who have died defending our right to carry guns.
Do Americans "do" irony?
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We "old worlders" aren't supposed to understand a thing about guns control ... We let ourselves at the mercy of terrorists and abusive governments and so on...
We do have nut jobs too - counting myself in - but "they" can't shoot the whole school the day they decide they've had enough...
Don't know if Americans lack irony, but they certainly lack subttlety on some topics: preventing some immature, lost in teenage crisis guy to buy an automatic assault rifle that has been DESIGNED FOR WAR is not the same thing as preventing you to have a 10 or 15 rounds handgun in your bedside table... That's already more than enough to stop anyone coming at you.
Boys are boys everywhere on Earth: they drink, they fight, they jump from houses roofs and drive too fast... What do you expect when you let them have guns ?
Plus it's true: guns want to be fired, bullets want to fly into bodies and triggers pull the finger, fonction follows form ...
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