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Gun Control

by John
(Mountain View, CA)

As the issue of gun control surfaces again and again, I wonder when or how we can begin a conversation about the root cause (s) of gun violence.

What do other's think about this??

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Jun 14, 2014
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by: John

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Jun 14, 2014
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starstarstarstarstar 		Culture is the key
by: John

"How can sane policies/regulations ever come about??"

My answer would be to change the culture. And, in order to do that, we need to have a meaningful conversation about the issue of gun control and gun violence.

And, personally, that conversation needs to include dialogue as to what CAUSES people to need/use guns. What is behind this trend?

Only when the conversation is meaningful, and then shared, will culture shift, and the root cause(s) transform.
Jun 14, 2014
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by: Anonymous

Guns ok'd to be in the hands of nearly anyone is insane. How can sane policies/regulations ever come about??
Jun 14, 2014
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by: Ginny

Root Cause: insanity, disconnect, unrelated, power, fear. Find the people who are disconnected from reality and help them.
Jun 14, 2014
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by: Anonymous

Root cause: insanity - disconnect - unconscious - unrelated - reaction - fear - power - . . . .
Jun 12, 2014
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by: John

Hi Bill,

I was thinking about the word, "Competition." So I looked up its etymology. It comes from, "com-" meaning together, and "-petere" which can either mean to request or petition, or to attach or rush at.

So, I guess this word "says it all."

We can either request to be together, to seek to be one with one another, or to attack and be against .. again together.

It is apparently "up to us."
Jun 12, 2014
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starstarstarstarstar 		Address the *problem* not the symptom
by: bmiller

Appalling as these incidents are, and needless as guns may be in the modern world, such events are merely the last link in a chain. Until we address this problem at its source, such tragedies will continue to occur - guns or no.

The originating cause? In a society with an abundance of knowledge, wealth, and resources, we nevertheless continue to live by the Stone Age philosophy that competition is the best way to create the optimum society. (If evolution followed this philosophy, we'd still be single-celled bacteria battling in a puddle somewhere.)

Competition always, ALWAYS produces a few winners and many more losers --further amplified by the scale at which things operate today. This puts society on a socioeconomic hierarchy where, as the current Robert Reich film "Inequality for All" so clearly illustrates, the extremes get further and further apart. When a few are rewarded and celebrated beyond all reason while growing numbers are excluded and disregarded, is it really any surprise that some in the latter camp would not go quietly into oblivion?

Like the leap from simple single-celled organisms to complex multicellular organisms with far greater capabilities, our society too could make a quantum leap if we applied our vast knowledge and resources toward realizing the unique potential that lies within each person - as opposed to separating the one "victor" from the seven-billion-minus-one who don't really count.

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