THEY tell U.S. "If you see something, say something."
Well, THEY knew this kid was unhinged and THEY did the same thing THEY did in Parkland, FL.
NOTHING!
It is getting hard not to believe that THEY want these shooting to happen. Just about everyone of these incidents has all kinds of "Red Flag" warnings and what gets done about it. NOTHING!
Everything you've written is correct, but everything has been said thousands of times before in similar situations. These issues of, laws written by egomaniacal politicians to make the uninformed *feel* good, while situationally aware law abiding citizens are increasingly disarmed and growing numbers of criminals of all stripes are allowed to prey on those who were promised government *protection* are killed in broad daylight, seems to be stuck in a never ending feedback loop.
I have struggled with how to adjust the messaging and discussion towards a solution. From my perspective, the stumbling block is the inability to have a rational argument of facts, with the irrational who believe in the utopian lies of those who spew the "if we only had better gun control laws" fallacies.
The question is, how does one convince the illogical, the irrational and the emotionally driven herd with rational logical truths?
I think our discussions need to be multifaceted, with facts for those who live in reality and some form of emotional connection for those who do not. As the whole "my subjective truth" crowd has been demonstrably effective at dominating every aspect of modern society, we need to figure out a way to harness that strategy to educate, enlighten and empower those who have been misguided for the last fifty plus years.
True enough. The argument isn't always for the opponents, but for those undecided as they watch. And until we do have those arguments, and we continue to allow their voices to be amplified unchecked, we will be outvoted and on the losing end, until we pass into a better place.
I think it needs to start in our K-12 public education. They are currently hatching the next wave of Communists, via indoctrination. In my opinion, that's the "what" and "who" but I'm not sure of the "how" at this point.
Maybe it starts with NSSF and get shooting sports in K-12. When our children are constantly told guns are evil without ever experiencing it for themselves then they will never learn. But then again, to get it in the curriculum we need to go to the education policy makers (who are mostly all far left).
That is a good goal, but to get there the *influencers* of society need to be convinced first. Work from the inside out, the soccer moms, the 9-5 office folks, the consumers of the economy, the non-committed middle road folks. And most importantly, we can not be afraid to correct the lies, and with level temperament deliver the truth in a way that connects with the individual listening.
Some do, some don't, we all should, yes. The most often missed is getting the message across to the listener, in a tone and language they connect with.
I believe long guns in general including the modern sporting rifle are used in less then 5% of all justified and unjustified deaths. This would include law enforcement use as well.
The facts are handguns are used in the majority of all justified and unjustified deaths including 20-25,000 unpreventable suicides.
We don't have a gun problem in this country we have a criminal and mental health problem in this county and untill we actually make the correct changes by locking these animals up for good we'll continue down the repeat offender path.
There's approximately 40,000 to 45,000 +- deaths with the contributing factor being a firearm.
Let's break these numbers down so we can better understand them.
There's between 20,000 to 25,000 suicides +- with a firearm
There's between 8,000 to 10,000 murders +- with a firearm that are gang related. Then there's violent murders such as home invasions, carjackings, domestic situations and active killers.
Then there's around 7,000 to 9,000 +- Justified homicides/Lawful uses of deadly force like the ones listed above. And this includes law enforcement uses of deadly force.
And then we have around 350 +- accidental/negligent discharge deaths.
Now the anti gunners and the media don't want you to know this because it doesn't fit the agenda. They also won't tell you firearms are use approximately 2.5 million times a year +- to defend off a violent attacks and in most cases without a shot ever being fired and
Most of these defensive uses aren't reported.
Now let's breakdown the language and take it back.
(Gun Violence) Really when was the last time a gun was violent? It's human violence.
(Mass Shooting) You mean Mass Killings because when was the last time you seen the media call out a mass stabbing or a mass hit and run?
(Shooter) I'm a shooter Lee The Gun Writer's a shooter and we go shooting we don't go killing.
(Shooting) We go shooting and we take our kids shooting we don't go on active killing sprees with them.
The language and word twisting is just another way for the government, anti gunners and the media to lump Responsible Gun Owners in with these evil individuals.
You can easily check the FBI, ATF, and Department of Justice statistics yourself and see this figures are pretty dead on accurate
One more thing Long Guns have been used between 350 to 500 times +- in all those statistics above. And by Long Gun I mean Shotguns, Bolt Action Rifles, Semi Auto Rifles including the Modern Sporting Rifle such as the AR Platform.
So I'll asked where's the so called "Gun Violence" ? Stop releasing violent criminals back on our streets and do the same for the mentally unhinged.
One more thing besides besides the violent criminals and the mentally unhinged there's one other big common denominator. These animals intentionally target gun free zones.
One correction I want to make. When I'm talking about the mentally unhinged I'm talking about the people who are a danger to themselves and others not all mental health issues are a danger to the community as a whole. And a lot of the individuals with mental health issues shouldn't be prohibited from owning or carrying
THEY tell U.S. "If you see something, say something."
Well, THEY knew this kid was unhinged and THEY did the same thing THEY did in Parkland, FL.
NOTHING!
It is getting hard not to believe that THEY want these shooting to happen. Just about everyone of these incidents has all kinds of "Red Flag" warnings and what gets done about it. NOTHING!
Everything you've written is correct, but everything has been said thousands of times before in similar situations. These issues of, laws written by egomaniacal politicians to make the uninformed *feel* good, while situationally aware law abiding citizens are increasingly disarmed and growing numbers of criminals of all stripes are allowed to prey on those who were promised government *protection* are killed in broad daylight, seems to be stuck in a never ending feedback loop.
I have struggled with how to adjust the messaging and discussion towards a solution. From my perspective, the stumbling block is the inability to have a rational argument of facts, with the irrational who believe in the utopian lies of those who spew the "if we only had better gun control laws" fallacies.
The question is, how does one convince the illogical, the irrational and the emotionally driven herd with rational logical truths?
I think our discussions need to be multifaceted, with facts for those who live in reality and some form of emotional connection for those who do not. As the whole "my subjective truth" crowd has been demonstrably effective at dominating every aspect of modern society, we need to figure out a way to harness that strategy to educate, enlighten and empower those who have been misguided for the last fifty plus years.
"The question is, how does one convince the illogical, the irrational and the emotionally driven herd with rational logical truths?"
I do not think that that is possible.
We need to weed them out of the next generation like they are trying with us
Proverbs 29:9
True enough. The argument isn't always for the opponents, but for those undecided as they watch. And until we do have those arguments, and we continue to allow their voices to be amplified unchecked, we will be outvoted and on the losing end, until we pass into a better place.
I think it needs to start in our K-12 public education. They are currently hatching the next wave of Communists, via indoctrination. In my opinion, that's the "what" and "who" but I'm not sure of the "how" at this point.
Maybe it starts with NSSF and get shooting sports in K-12. When our children are constantly told guns are evil without ever experiencing it for themselves then they will never learn. But then again, to get it in the curriculum we need to go to the education policy makers (who are mostly all far left).
That is a good goal, but to get there the *influencers* of society need to be convinced first. Work from the inside out, the soccer moms, the 9-5 office folks, the consumers of the economy, the non-committed middle road folks. And most importantly, we can not be afraid to correct the lies, and with level temperament deliver the truth in a way that connects with the individual listening.
Agree, isn't that what we all do in our circle of influence? If not, start.
Some do, some don't, we all should, yes. The most often missed is getting the message across to the listener, in a tone and language they connect with.
I believe long guns in general including the modern sporting rifle are used in less then 5% of all justified and unjustified deaths. This would include law enforcement use as well.
The facts are handguns are used in the majority of all justified and unjustified deaths including 20-25,000 unpreventable suicides.
We don't have a gun problem in this country we have a criminal and mental health problem in this county and untill we actually make the correct changes by locking these animals up for good we'll continue down the repeat offender path.
There's approximately 40,000 to 45,000 +- deaths with the contributing factor being a firearm.
Let's break these numbers down so we can better understand them.
There's between 20,000 to 25,000 suicides +- with a firearm
There's between 8,000 to 10,000 murders +- with a firearm that are gang related. Then there's violent murders such as home invasions, carjackings, domestic situations and active killers.
Then there's around 7,000 to 9,000 +- Justified homicides/Lawful uses of deadly force like the ones listed above. And this includes law enforcement uses of deadly force.
And then we have around 350 +- accidental/negligent discharge deaths.
Now the anti gunners and the media don't want you to know this because it doesn't fit the agenda. They also won't tell you firearms are use approximately 2.5 million times a year +- to defend off a violent attacks and in most cases without a shot ever being fired and
Most of these defensive uses aren't reported.
Now let's breakdown the language and take it back.
(Gun Violence) Really when was the last time a gun was violent? It's human violence.
(Mass Shooting) You mean Mass Killings because when was the last time you seen the media call out a mass stabbing or a mass hit and run?
(Shooter) I'm a shooter Lee The Gun Writer's a shooter and we go shooting we don't go killing.
(Shooting) We go shooting and we take our kids shooting we don't go on active killing sprees with them.
The language and word twisting is just another way for the government, anti gunners and the media to lump Responsible Gun Owners in with these evil individuals.
You can easily check the FBI, ATF, and Department of Justice statistics yourself and see this figures are pretty dead on accurate
One more thing Long Guns have been used between 350 to 500 times +- in all those statistics above. And by Long Gun I mean Shotguns, Bolt Action Rifles, Semi Auto Rifles including the Modern Sporting Rifle such as the AR Platform.
So I'll asked where's the so called "Gun Violence" ? Stop releasing violent criminals back on our streets and do the same for the mentally unhinged.
One more thing besides besides the violent criminals and the mentally unhinged there's one other big common denominator. These animals intentionally target gun free zones.
One correction I want to make. When I'm talking about the mentally unhinged I'm talking about the people who are a danger to themselves and others not all mental health issues are a danger to the community as a whole. And a lot of the individuals with mental health issues shouldn't be prohibited from owning or carrying