Reply #71: I've never [View All]

[rrneck]

thought it productive to compare one country to another when it comes to issues like guns. Each country has a unique history that creates a unique culture. That cultural environment makes for a unique population that produces solutions unique to that population. Whether anyone likes them or not, firearms are a part of the warp and weft of American society, and we have to come up with a way to deal with the problems they create in our own way.

Although an armed society is indeed a polite society, there is more than one way to achieve civility. I would rather we create a more just and fair country in which to live. A country that sees to the needs of all its citizens with compassion and equanimity. Fewer poor desperate people means less violence and the potential need to deal with desperate acts with desperate responses.