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Obama trying to make a point about Gun laws.
Good on him for trying, however I'm not sure he was explicit enough?
Good on him for trying, however I'm not sure he was explicit enough?
That Amendment was written,I think,when the young Americawas fighting the British for independence from the home country. I would have though that when indepandence was won that amendment was curtailed some what.now they are reaping the harvest.The right to keep and bear arms is codified in the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution, which reads: A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
Until the time this is annulled sadly this sought of thing will carry on.
It’s a vote looser for anyone running for President!
Failed attempt at a shoe bomb and we all have to take our shoes off at airports. How many more of these killings have to happen before something is done about it ?
Point is laws are a load of tosh.
Point is laws are a load of tosh.
People have to want to not shoot folks.
Laws are essential, even if a few of them are a little bizarre. We'd be in a fine state if there were no laws.
Civilisation and society can only exist if laws are in place and observed.
And, 99.999% of people don't want to shoot folks. But there'll always be that tiny, tiny percentage who will be different. The same goes for just about everything else.
Subjects were apparently given electric shocks
Decades after a notorious experiment, scientists have found test subjects are still willing to inflict pain on others - if told to by an authority figure.
US researchers repeated the famous "Milgram test", with volunteers told to deliver electrical shocks to another volunteer - played by an actor.
Even after faked screams of pain, 70% were prepared to increase the voltage, the American Psychologist study found.
Both may help explain why apparently ordinary people can commit atrocities.
Well the Irish (IRA ),Italians ( Mafia ), Spanish (ETA ), Sweden (That island shooting ) etc etc etc . have gun laws an they seem to be able to obtain them easily enough. An they certainly have no problems with using them indiscriminately.
Point is laws are a load of tosh.
People have to want to not shoot folks.
There was 540 firearm offences dealt with by West Midlands Police last year - a rise of 41 incidents meaning there is now a higher gun crime rate across the Black Country and Birmingham than London.
"The firearms surrenders carried out by police forces last year helped to remove thousands of guns from circulation; weapons which could have fallen into the hands of criminals.
The brazen shooting of a man standing outside a pub with his friends in Wythenshawe is the latest example of spiralling gun crime in Greater Manchester.
Our timeline shows it is the latest of at least 30 shootings - three of them fatal - in the last 14 months, most of them in Salford.
A police crackdown on gang and gun crime in south Manchester dubbed XCalibre - which included the jailing of key mobsters - almost wiped out gun incidents in places like Old Trafford, Moss Side and Longsight although tensions between the rival Gooch and Doddington outfits and various spin-offs continued.
Through ground breaking awareness campaigns, the 50-year-old spearheaded community resilience that helped turn the tide against a surge in gang-related deaths, which saw the city dubbed ‘Gunchester’ in the 1990s.
“I used to socialise in Moss Side,” remembered Angela, of Gorse Hill. “Some of the early shootings that took place were of people I’d grown up with.
“I lost friends through gang violence and was affected by it.
“I thought: ‘Someone has to do something, and that someone is us’.”
But the notion of community action and politicians’ talk of a ‘Big Society’ were years away.
By Lane Crothers, Fulbright Bicentennial Professor in American Studies 2015–2016 at the University of Helsinki:
Making “Perfect” the enemy of the “Good”
Well worth a quick read.
As I said before it ain't laws that change things. It is people.
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