Guns, Butter, and Led Zepplin

[Brother Laz]

I thought I'd point out that people can't shoot each other and relief workers without guns.

The right to bear arms gets innocents killed every day. The average American is 7 (or 9?) times more likely to be shot by a family member than by a criminal. The difference is that it now happens in a disaster area and everyone is watching.

Is the right to bear guns really a foundation of democracy? The US is not the only democratic country in the world, and (except Australia, probably) very few of them have such lax gun control laws as the US.

In Europe, guns cannot be sold freely and as a result, the average muggers don't actually have guns either. Perhaps the professional criminals and carjackers do, but what is a shootout going to accomplish anyway and how often do you get carjacked in the first place?

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Of course, ghetto life doesn't help either. Cram a lot of people living below the poverty line together with a lot of unemployed and/or homeless people, make sure the education their children receive is inadequate for a better life, do not promote any human values in the media (violence sells better), then insult them by saying 'poverty is a state of mind'.

I'm sure rich white people are responsible with guns, but people with no long-term future tend not to care about the short-term future either. Result: constant shoot-outs.

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As for withholding the remaining citizens food and water to force them out of the city, I figure this is just part of the American philosophy that the poor have brought it upon themselves and are therefore to be treated as filth.

Of course, I take it that saying 'get out' is the extent of the gov't's responsibilities and those forced out will just end up homeless in nearby cities. I guess it was their fault for not having the money to leave in the first place, then their fault again to loot food stores.

Lazy bums should have bought a $100K university degree instead of being a burden on society and insisting the richest goverment on earth provides them the means to stay alive (food and water) for free. Shoot them.