Reply #61: You were doing so well [View All]

[Tejas]

"The average child witnesses tens of thousands of shootings on television before age 21. It has been demonstrated that televising violence raises the violence level of child behavior - more fistfights, pushing, etc. Every time we put our kids in front of a TV, we are deliberately training them to be violent. (Even the commercials are full of violent imagery.)"


You identified the problem everyone loves to ignore. I say ignore, because nobody has or ever will do anything about it. Much too easy just to blame your mythical "pro-gun people (who) think its great to hand out guns to all askers".


"Guns escalate, rather than diffuse, tension. They make little arguments into big arguments and big arguments into violence faster. There was a case in Boston a year or two ago in which some workmen in a car driving on an expressway got into an argument about the merits of the Red Sox vs the Yankees. The end result was that one of these guys was shot dead by another - co-workers, in a moving car, over a fucking sports argument. From being a boring cliche (Yankees suck) to homicide. What do you have to say about such behavior? Just the price of freedom?"


Your example of some idiots on the freeway qualifies your wish for my guns to be registered? Shades of Carolyn McCarthy! You'll have to do much better than that.