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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (21892)5/23/1998 1:27:00 AM
From: Grainne  Read Replies (3) of 108807
 
<<Gun ownership isn't the problem imho. Our failure as a society to show violent criminals that we possess and implement a ruthless determination to punish them is our great weakness as Americans. This is curable, and it has very little to do with citizen gun ownership.

Alex, think again. Are you going to execute children for their crimes? Don't you think there is something going on in America besides a lack of effective punishment and strong enough messages being sent? We already imprison more of our population, percentage wise, than any civilized nation on earth. Don't you think that if sending this message stopped crime, it would be working by now?

I have never said that what is going on with the children shooting up the place is ONLY because of the proliferation of guns in America. I think it is more complicated, and that the breakdown of the family, the sheer number of hours children watch tv and play violent video games (children in other western societies have a lower exposure to the same material), the low priority given to children and their needs here, and drugs are all mixed up as causative factors.

But the fact is that if there were no readily available guns, these massacres could not happen, because guns are the one absolutely necessary component.
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