Are guns really the problem?

[Shabibilicious]

On 7/2/2016 at 10:59 AM, RV ME said:

Confiscation is just an NRA red herring said the smarter than thou fence sitter.  Of course, his selective memory forgets about the aftermath of Katrina, where police confiscated hundreds of guns and only returned them under threat of losing a lawsuit.

Ask those in Connecticut if they would be able to take their AR15 to the range and make it back home with said gun.  Since the state banned them after Sandy Hook (or Hoax) the state forced the law abiding citizens to either get rid of their weapons or no longer be a law abiding citizen.

Conspiracy theorist condescension is a level of commitment I couldn't possibly match......or even want to.  Kudos.  

GO RV, then BV

[Theseus]

Something to note on government programs for law enforcement. At the time Prez Bill Clinton was in office he helped allocate funds to put more law enforcement officials on the street. I forget what year this was but late 90's. This program was never really meant to be permanent and was a band aid to kick the proverbial can down the road for a more permanent solution later. (See a pattern here?) When this program ended, the money dried up and what was thought of government cuts wasn't actually a government cut at all. People became complacent and felt that the money would always be there to support the officers they hired with the program Clinton promulgated. Now Clinton was extolled for this program and the crowds cheered and lauded him as a great President because he put a band-aid on a problem that he never really did fix - lack of law enforcement dollars. Now Clinton is out of office the program has stopped all together and we are where we were back in the nineties - underfunded law enforcement agencies who are going to have to let those officers go. This was actually done around 2009 which was the ten year mark of the program. The citizens of the United States has to stop thinking in the credit card mentality if we are to survive, We cannot keep borrowing from future generations to appease the voters of today. Hard choices have to be made. Its like the mass exodus from California into states that are prosperous and those ex-calikookians want to turn whatever state they just moved to into another california. (See the pattern here?) Is it no wonder that migrants to this country want to do the same? Quitting the failed policy patterns of the past is the only way to change and to usher in prosperity i this country. As far as mental health goes, mentally ill individuals are much better today than they were when there were massive asylums which housed so-called mentally ill patients of yesteryear. The stuff that went on in some of those asylums by so-called sane doctors and nurses was worse than anything we have seen today. For example how would you like your teeth pulled because a doctor proclaimed you were bad in a mental asylum. People were left to starve, left tied to their beds in their own feces and urine. These institutions were run by the government. We want to put our mentally ill into the hands of the government once again? No way Jose! 

Edited July 20, 2016 by Theseus