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jennyclagett

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Voted On Idea : fvezgzg 9 months ago

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jennyclagett 9 months ago
You can just check out the murder statistics for other countries - enough said. You don't have to worry about being shot at in no-gun countries. Let's see Texas, just the last few months, a couple shoots and kills a kid and shoots his father because they thought they were trespassing on their land and had the right to defend their land.....a man shoots two robbers in the back who were robbing his neighbors' house and kills them (no charges will be filed cuz he was scared.....what total BS)..... both site the 'just shoot' law.... and there are others....

Poor economy, no jobs, no future, no training or education, stupid decisions....do drugs....get hooked...commit crimes....no jobs, no food, steal stuff.....prostitute themselves.....

"Good people" commit crimes all the time. I have found so-called "Good people" to not be particularly good at all.

And as far as automatic weapons being available, semi-automatic weapons are widely available and can be modified into automatic weapons.... Why do the Police want guns taken off the streets???

Many parents don't do what they 'should' do, but you can't expect a parent to understand what can be done about bullying. That's why police and various social services run programs in school for anti-bullying and anti-gangs. Bullies pick on someone weaker. A bully six grader is going to dominate a 4th grader regardless of the 4th's grader ability to defend themselves....
The bully is the problem.

So when the economy goes bad and crime goes up its' caused by what???? Yes, there is inadequate policing. Bush got rid of Clinton's 100,000 extra police....and the crime rates went up....but a poor economy can guarantee higher rates of crime....regardless of class or 'income'...

And as far as training comment, that's typical NRA. I've watched people give loaded guns to 2 1/2 and a 5 year old and have them do target practice and claim that those kids were trustworthy because their dad taught them to respect guns. No one in that family - Dad included - should be allowed near a gun. They have zero judgement. I have found the most cowardly people gravitate towards guns in hoards. No coward should be allowed near a gun.

You haven't given me any reason to think that a Department of Peace isn't a great idea.
jennyclagett 9 months ago
jwelborn3434....."Texas law states that a person may use deadly force to protect Him/her self or another person from the imminent threat of death or serious bodily injury, or to prevent certain crimes during the nighttime." and i've read about what's been happening since the law was enacted..... prevent certain crimes....that is 'just shoot'. there you go.
as far as your comments on bullying, you are blaming the victims saying it's there fault that they can't defend themselves. seriously. bullying is more than just someone not being able to defend themselves. and how many times has someone with a gun had it used on themselves? i don't have a problem with people not killing animals, but that isn't what any one has suggested.

bans DO NOT lead to higher crime rates. that is just not true.

the leading cause of crime is a poor economy, disenfranchisement, poor education, lack of opportunities.....

all of the gun bands have been directed at keeping guns out of the hands of criminals - and hopefully the insane and angry - and, I only wish, the cowards out there -

the State laws are inadequate.


and i have worked with the military and with Peace and as I've said there is a whole 'science' developed that the US does not participate in.
jennyclagett 9 months ago
jwelborn3434
you have yet to show that you have any concept of what peace is all about. it's an actual discipline.
violence has escalated as gun controls tighten?? isn't that due to an influx of cheap guns?

Just how many mass murders have taken place in England or Singapore or pick any other place where guns are highly controlled?

The US has a culture of violence. Just check out Texas with it's crazy 'just shoot' policy and folks can just say 'I was scared.' If someone breaks into your neighbors house to steal stuff let the cops handle it. Forget this business of shooting people just because you're a vigilante gun nut. The vigilante gun nuts are just as dangerous as any common criminal. When it comes to guns used in crime, gun owners end up killing their own friends and family or themselves.

Frankly, the Department of Peace really has nothing to do with bullying little kids, though it certainly could. You obviously have absolutely no idea what Peace is all about. Peace keeping, peace enforcement and peace making saves millions of lives....

WWII was a whole lot more complicated than just a 'failed policy of appeasement.' You seem to have an endless capacity to regurgitate gun lobby B.S. let alone propaganda coming from the military industrial complex - where war is their business at profit.
jennyclagett 9 months ago
to jwelborn3434....
no, in fact, i have never noticed that mass shootings tend to occur in 'zero tolerance for weapons' areas... but if you are suggesting that students should bring guns to schools, or teachers, etc., then that's a recipe for disaster. what i have noticed is that people who mass murder seem to have absolutely no trouble getting their hands on automatic weapons! the fact that they seek out places where there are people is part of their plan.... you can't spend your life living in fear of the unknown. by the same token, the United States does not have a sufficient history or experience in peace keeping, peace making, nor peace enforcement. Part of the duties of a Department of Peace would address these inadequacies. Working at Peace requires a completely different set of tools, theories, training, strategies and people that have nothing in common with making war and killing people (the job of the Department of Defense).
jennyclagett 9 months ago
A department of Peace would save money and lives.