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Originally Posted by Troubleshooter
....So no, it's not the guns, or the knives, or even the sticks, it's the people. Same as everywhere else.  |
Agreed... totally.
I did a peacekeeping tour... no matter what we took away from the combatants, they found a way to make their own or just plain old threw rocks at each other.
I nearly got sick at a recent news article about some British politicians trying to ban "pointed" knives as you don't really need a point for cutting foot but for stabbing... a throw back to when a knife was not just used in the kitchen but was also usually carried on one's belt as a weapon as well as a tool.
All that is true but it was in response to an increase in knife attacks what with the Brits pretty much having effectively banned all easily carried firearms.
Doesn't anybody get it that you have to change the peoples attitudes first before you lower violence?
This "Life in a Playpen" movement really has me sick ... "take away all the tools that can hurt us, and we can't hurt each other anymore" ... yah right ... like our distant ancestors didn't hit each other over the head with rocks.
Guns, knives, sticks and rocks are not the problem ... WE are.
And until we acknowledge that fact, we really aren't going to get much of anywhere socially.