Okay, BainsBane, you claim to be so educated and intelligent. Put that alleged education and intelligence to work and think about some things.
Guns have been part of life in this country pretty much ever since Europeans first started colonizing the place. Back in those days, since you not only needed a gun to protect yourself but to also feed yourself, almost every single household had at least one gun. That would mean that the percentage of households owning guns were much, much higher in the past as compared to the percentage of households today.
Despite this discrepancy in gun ownership, the gun murders of children as we are seeing these days are a very recent development. Murders of children as are now occurring was rare, to nonexistent, in the 18th and 19th centuries. It was rarely heard of even in the early 20th.
The above would lead a rational, thinking person to come to the conclusion that there is something more going on than just guns. In an attempt to see what else may be going on I think we should compare the past to the present.
In the past (pre-early 20th century)
1. Children learned about guns early in life. They were taught to respect guns. They were taught to use guns as a tool for obtaining food or protecting themselves.
2. There were morals taught in the home and the school.
3. The penalty for violating the law was stiff. Often times, if you committed a murder and the law didn’t execute you, the citizens would because everyone knew that life was tough enough without a user/abuser/killer in their midst.
4. God and His Ten Commandments, including Thou shalt not murder and Love your neighbor as yourself, was commonly and freely talked about in both private and public places.
5. People were taught to cherish family and friends, but to rely on themselves.
Since then (mid-to-late 20th century)
1. Children are taught, usually by liberals, that guns are evil weapons only good for bringing death and should be restricted into non-existence.
2. The left has taught that morals are something that changes with the times. Now in many houses the children run the household as those old, outdated morals are discarded. The schools begin the leftist indoctrination of students as they are more concerned with creating leftist voters instead of educated, productive citizens.
3. The penalty for violating the law can still be sometimes stiff. You can even still sometimes be executed for murder if you don’t die during all of the appeals.
4. God and His Ten Commandments, especially Thou shalt not murder and Love your neighbor as yourself, has been essentiallly banned from any appearance in public.
5. People are taught to cherish and rely on the government.
Since guns are actually inanimate objects that can NOT act of their own accord and since the actual percentage of households owning guns has diminished should not the amount of murders by guns be decreasing? And since they are not decreasing, would it not make sense that one or more of the above difference between past and present is the cause?
