Guns aren't the only problem. But they are very much a problem. A few facts:
Age-adjusted firearm homicide rates in the US are 33 times greater than in Australia and 77 times greater than in Germany.
Gun violence accounts for over 8% of deaths in the US among those under age 20.
Source: The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, (Excerpt for Paper titled "On gun violence, the United States is an outlier" October 31, 2023.
I am starting to think these mass shootings are orchestrated by the left, using old CIA techniques under a 50's to 70's era program called MK Ultra, which brainwashed unsuspecting people into becoming what are called Manchurian, essentially "sleepers" that are triggered in one way or another to mindlessly carry out orders to unalive others. They used lsd in the program during those years and subjected them to mind control methods, I now strongly believe the left is still doing that program with today's youths, using ritalin and adderall as their lsd as both of those substances zombify their users, subjecting them to mind manipulation, and using violent video games and "entertainment" as their means to manipulate. Think about it, why is the left so obsessed with guns, YET they don't say a thing about violent movies, music, or tv? In fact most of those mediums are in fact produced by leftist Hollywood, and why are the mass shooters always the school losers?
The left is doing this deliberately to enrage the public in order to demand confiscation, why? Because firearms stand in the way of them taking total control of the people, they want to finish their vision of the marxist communist utopia they were trying to create in the 60's and 70's when they were only the counter culture. But as Jane Fonda's ex husband, Tom Hayden showed them, to "beat the Man, they have to become the Man." and entered politics, the counter culture soon became the establishment as we know it today.
Also, since the 40th anniversary reprinting of Dr. Spock's "Dare to Discipline" parenting book in 1986, originally published in 1946, essentially pretty much became a basis for it's mantra of "spanking destroys creativity"; all forms of discipline has become near outlawed, verging on all kinds accused of being abusive. Because of this the Millennial, Generation Z, and now Generation Alpha, the three youngest generations, which were also taught that respect of Elders was stupid, lost all manners and became disrespectful of others, their lack of proper discipline and guidance creating in them a sense of entitlement in which violent behaviors also became common in them, making it easier for those maniputating them to act.
@sree251 I mean the people living in the U.S. who are subject to its laws. But if you define it as people who were born here, a higher percentage of that group commits violent crimes compared to immigrants.
@sree251 The law can put you in prison, so it's not like it's nothing. When a cop pulls you over, do you tell him that the law isn't your god, so he can't write you a ticket?
What features do you use to recognize an American?
The law can put you in prison, so it's not like it's nothing. When a cop pulls you over, do you tell him that the law isn't your god, so he can't write you a ticket?
Why would a cop pull me over? This has never happened to me in my entire life. The police is there to protect me. Even the state trooper parked on the the shoulder of a highway is there to protect me. The sight of a police cruiser driving down my back alley at 3 am even there has never been a crime in my village is reassuring. I don't understand why you people want to defund the police for. I am still pissed off with what happened to Chauvin. You sent him to prison for responding to a 911 call and gave $27 million to the bad guy he tried to help his fellow officers to arrest? What is wrong with you people?
What features do you use to recognize an American?
I guess he or she comes in all skin colors. I like the fact that the country is home to many cultures. Now that I have stopped traveling abroad, I can still get to eat Portuguese egg tarts in Chinatown, saganaki in Greektown, and shasuka eggs for breakfast in a Lebanese restaurant. Why the hell are they bombing Lebanon? It's strange that Middle-easterners, both Arabs and Jews, have moved to America and living side by side in the same neighborhoods of various American cities just as they did for thousands of years in the Holy Land. Why is this not happening over there. Why all that hatred? You are smart.You tell me.
@sree251 When did I say I want to defund the police? I think the police should focus on crime and not be expected to be social workers.
If the cops have never pulled you over, it's because you hardly ever drive. I can't even count how many times I've been pulled over. That being said, I grew up in Los Angeles, and the LAPD at that time under Chief Daryl Gates were known to be aggressive. Beatings like what happened to Rodney King happened on an almost daily basis. People only found out about that one because a guy was testing his new camera and poked it out the window, and just happened to film it.
Chauvin killed an innocent man in cold blood. He gives a bad name to all police and is lucky he didn't get the death penalty. If you don't like the verdict, talk to the jury.
Israel is bombing southern Lebanon because the area is controlled by Hezbollah, a terrorist group funded by Iran. Hezbollah has been firing rockets at Israel for years, and stepped up their attacks recently. If Mexico had done the same to the US, we would have obliterated them. Israel is showing tremendous restraint. Their scheme of sending pagers to Hamas and blowing them up remotely was brilliant and an example of targeting the enemy leadership while minimizing civilian casualties.
It's great that different ethnic groups can live side by side in the US. Maybe the people of the Middle East will figure out how to do that someday. All that has to happen is for the Palestinians and the Iranians to accept that Israel should be allowed to exist. However, the Israel-Palestine conflict is only the best known one. There have been other far worse conflicts between Arabs that you haven't heard about. For example, no one paid attention when half a million Syrians were killed in their civil war a few years ago.
It's great that different ethnic groups can live side by side in the US. Maybe the people of the Middle East will figure out how to do that someday. All that has to happen is for the Palestinians and the Iranians to accept that Israel should be allowed to exist. However, the Israel-Palestine conflict is only the best known one. There have been other far worse conflicts between Arabs that you haven't heard about. For example, no one paid attention when half a million Syrians were killed in their civil war a few years ago.
Israel is an artifact of the Hebrew Bible. Israel should be allowed to exist within the synagogue. Zionism was founded in the late 18th century and has no support from orthodox Jews who practice Judaism. Zionists are atheists. They are secular and don't believe in God. You need to explain to me what is going on. Without US backing, zionists will come to a bad end.
@sree251 Israel is a sovereign country that has existed for 76 years. It doesn't matter at this point if it's an "artifact of the Hebrew Bible" (whatever that is). Israel is the historic homeland of the Jewish people. As David ben Gurion said at Israel's founding, "We establish the state of Israel in the land of Israel."
Some of the early Zionists were atheists, like Theodore Herzl. However, Herzl died decades before Israel was founded. Zionists today can be Jewish, Christian, Muslim, atheist, or anything else. A Zionist is just someone who believes Israel should exist.
If the US ended all foreign aid, many countries would come to a bad end. However, we don't provide aid to Israel or any other country just because we're nice guys. We do it for our own advantage. If we ended all foreign aid, the result wouldn't be good for the US either.
Israel is a sovereign country that has existed for 76 years.
76 years of blood and tears in Palestine is no less sad than our "trail of tears" in America. Might is right. We declared our own sovereignty and got away with it at the expense of the indigenous Americans, and we were able to clobber everyone in the world that got in our way. America's time is over. We have generated too much hate through the way we pushed others around. Our national identity has become ambiguous due to a changing demographic caused by the influx of war refugees and unchecked invasion of migrants. Any attempt to revive national pride now is frowned upon and condemned as fascism. We are dying from within, and we are not even 300 years old.
Israel is the historic homeland of the Jewish people. As David ben Gurion said at Israel's founding, "We establish the state of Israel in the land of Israel."
China has a tough time asserting her sovereignty over her own province of Taiwan. Everyone has a belief in what is theirs by right. The planet has no natural borders. It is like a large animal fallen prey to predators, each fighting the others over a piece of it.
Why can't the planet be a homeland for everyone? There was a time when Jewish people lived alongside Arabs in the Holy Land the way all the animals lived together on the African savannah.
If the US ended all foreign aid, many countries would come to a bad end. However, we don't provide aid to Israel or any other country just because we're nice guys. We do it for our own advantage. If we ended all foreign aid, the result wouldn't be good for the US either.
We Americans have always believed that we are the good guys. And everyone else in the world is the bad guy. And wherever we go in the world, there are people who would literally slit our throats.
Everyone everywhere believes they are the good guys.
I am talking about us, anointed people with the supermen complex. The manner we behave overseas is horrid. I cringe at the sight of Americans abroad. They are obnoxious in either mode: self-effacing out-reachers (woke-whites) or insular (regular whites). Me, I am neither this nor that on account of my upbringing in cosmopolitan Manhattan and raised by parents who took me with them on their frequent business trips abroad (I was in Shanghai when I was 3 months old).
And there are people who want to slit anyone's throat.
Only those impacted by US foreign policy. You need to watch your step outside the western world. I used to feel no danger in Europe when living in Paris, Amsterdam,and Rome. I don't go there now because their streets have the feel of the Mid-East teeming with war refugees.
I don't mean to cast Middle-Easterners in a bad light. There are many of them in the muslim countries in Asia. I did socialize with Iranians, Saudis, and Egyptians in Kuala Lumpur. Their points of views are reasonable but will find no reception among our politicians.
I've been overseas and so far no one has slit my throat.
You are woke, and that's why you have survived. Americans stick out like sore thumbs and tend to live in expat ghettos the way our troops are billeted in US military bases. I am not woke but do hang around hippy (woke) types because they seem to be the only kind who mingle among locals like I do.
Right now, because of your orange lord and savior, there are people who want to kill Haitians because they think they are eating housepets.
Trump's saving grace is his pragmatic business instincts. Like Charlie Munger, he can move pass bigoted ideology on both sides of the political divide. I don't blame Trump for leading the masses the way he does because that's the way he has to play the game of democracy. There are sheep, both black and white of fleece, on either side tipping the balance of power. If Trump wants to move his sheep, he has to bleat like a sheep. You are agitated by Trump's bleats about the cats because you are a sheep even though a sheep of a different color.
@sree251 Again with "woke." You should stop using that word, nobody on your side is using it anymore since Ron DeFuckhead's campaign ended.
If you think US foreign policy is bad, wait until you see China's after they get going.
Trump has terrible business instincts. He has less money today than he would have had if he'd invested his inheritance in blue chip stocks, instead of failures like Trump Steaks, Trump Vodka, Trump Airline, and several casinos that went bankrupt. Most of his wealth right now is tied up in his failing social media platform, and he can't even sell off his shares and get out before it drops to zero because other investors would sell the moment they found out he was and the stock would tank.
I'm "agitated" by Trump and Vance telling lies about an innocent group of people. There have already been bomb threats and if they keep this up, people will get killed. The fact that this doesn't bother you proves that you're a shit human being lacking common decency. No wonder you're single and don't have any friends.
By the way, I'm not a typical American as I lived for several years in a West African village, not an "expat enclave." So I'll put my foreign living experience above yours any day.
I mean, after all, who wouldn't have wanted to see Hitler assassinated? right? The problem is, Trump was POTUS for 4 years, and was the opposite of NAZI.
Hitler hatred is alien to me. The guy was German, a white man who loved his country. His demonization is bizarre. It's a neurosis. People get killed in wars, millions were slaughtered by allied bombings in WW2 and we have been doing the same since Vietnam. Do we Americans get demonized the same way the Germans get branded as evil? Why not? 40,000 innocent civilians have been slaughtered in Gaza today in the name of what? Nazis? And Trump is called a Nazi because he loves his country.
@sree251 We know you adore Hitler. You agree with his philosophy of obliterating Jews, LGBT, and racial minorities while enslaving women with forced childbirth.
What does the "Big Bang" have to do with white people's cultural identity? The Big Bang theory was first proposed by a Catholic priest.
