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America needs new vision. In the last election “A Green New Deal for America”, which the Green Party presented didn’t manage to inspire America. It is time for a US ceasefire, domesticity and internationally. Trying to ban automatic weapons the immediate result is a lot of new people trying to buy and otherwise obtain them. It took years for gun violence to go down in England.
Americans are united in wanting to do something about senseless violence, can we come up with something positive? Let’s get a new third choice movement started.
Suicidal maniacs both political and non political have plagued our society of late. The fact they were killed or managed to die seems to inspire others to copy them. However no one dreams of spending the rest of their lives in jail. Let’s rune this fantasy by making sure they would live. Spider-man comics started out with spiderweb weapons. There is also stun guns and percussion devices. Adam Lanza would have stopped after he killed his mother if he feared there was something at the school that could make him helpless to be kept locked up like he was trying to avoid.
Suggestion number 2.
Keep guns locked up. Bank robbers, store clerks and police officers want guns to protect themselves with if someone was shooting at them. In England they wouldn’t fear being shot or crave a gun. If guns had to be locked up. Police officers would not be shot with their own gun. They were clamoring for finger print trigger locks but so far the terminology isn’t there.
However there are fingerprint gun boxes. Some can hold a small gun as a side pouch. Crimes like robbery suddenly are considered extremely serious if a robber has a gun. If a crime suddenly was considered more serious when a gun wasn’t locked up a bank robber who couldn’t afford a gun box would carry a gun in a padlocked duffel bag with only one move needed to open the combination lock. The gun with almost everyone would be locked up some of the time just like almost everyone wears a seat belt in certain situations.
Insurance companies insist that bank robbers aren’t apprehended by store or bank clerks and push that customers don’t interfere as well,
Internationally insurance companies do the same with piracy. They know that if a robber is stopped by being shot the next time thieves will be far more trigger happy and the insurance company in the end suffer substantial loses. The female officer who managed to wound not kill the Army Psychiatrist at Fort Hill massacre purposely saving his life managed to stop a lot of copy cat incidents if that is what al Qaeda wanted, by paralyzing not killing.
Places like Philadelphia were a lot of people aren’t allowed to own guns. Timid people, girl friends or neighbors are pressed into buying one, or fear, or the no snitch ethic prevents a neighbor from going to the police after they were robbed of their gun by an acquaintance.
I would like someone to try to do a survey on how many people who crave a gun to try to prevent themselves from being shot by someone else, actually don’t manage to get one,
http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/region/united-states
The amount of lives saved from outlawing illegal guns may equal the jail time that possibly offenders are serving.
Our society was ravaged with a war on drugs and a war on terror. Finally the prison population began to go down. Now we suddenly have a war on guns almost destined to make prisons overcrowded again.
December 10, twenty two US Representatives both progressive Democrats, and libertarian leaning Republicans signed a joint letter calling for cuts in the Pentagon. Then came the Connecticut elementary school massacre and they spit down the middle over gun control.
Gun violence went down 60% in El Salvador, far more in Northern Ireland after the ceasefire and truce.
The big problem in Afghanistan is that no one in the US, hawk or dove, is paying attention to what is happening on the ground. What does Karzai and the Taliban each want? Afghan President Karzai represents his tribe, the city of Kabul and the Shiite minority in Afghanistan. The Taliban represents those who crave the traditional rural way of life. The Haqqani Network is Muslims who hate India and Afghan President Karzai willingness to be friendly with India, and Indian businessmen. Maybe the US could call a unilateral ceasefire and stay in the US bases as long as Kabul and the Shiite areas of Afghanistan are not attacked and let the others negotiate among themselves. It worked in El Salvador and Northern Ireland whether or not this would work in Afghanistan. At any rate a war on Guns would mean that the US is in the middle of another war, while economic survival is already threatened by the drug war the war on terror and all the other wars the US has managed to be in the middle of.
Obama started out with a bring us together ideology, now he has played hot button issues with the skill of Bill Clinton. More details at the following link,
http://readersupportednews.org/pm-section/78-78/15338-the-real-story-of-barack-obama
Comparing wanting a cell phone in the car to wanting a gun to protect oneself with,
We are finally saying “No“ to the drug war and the war against terror. Don’t replace it with a war against guns. Let’s work for a Green Ceasefire in America.
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Nice how you open the piece with a cheap shot. The problem with the Green New Deal was not the content, which would have inspired many, but rather the limited capacity of the Green Party and Stein to get that message out to the American people, given the media black out and the progressive herd again lining up behind Obama.
So why do you think your points are going to get presented to the American people any better?
There are things that grab with few words such as Ban Guns, Save the Second Amendment. During the election I passed out my own campaign leaflet saying had enough of corruption vote third party with fine print on the Greens and Libertarians. Green New Deal refers to history that only a few union members still feel inspirational about.
When it comes to my article some Libertarian leaning peace activists and liberal oriented peace activists liked working together and don’t now want to fight over domestic gun control.
When it comes to my piece I don’t think many people ever wondered whether banning someone who feels they must have a gun to protect themselves, actually stops them from somehow getting a gun.
I personally was never more or less forced to get someone a gun. But I was more or less forced to buy cigarettes. I’m a vegetarian but even thinking of not getting meat when I go to the store for someone is out of the question.
I often try to put myself in the shoes of those I differ with. I don’t like insurance companies but if insurance companies covered police officers injured or mass mayhem there would be a change in how things are done.
We use conspiracy theory as a crutch. Big rallies but little reporting however Romney spoke before a black charter school and was booed. Even if one only looks for sports that story would grab ones attention. Millions go to church every Sunday and some conservatives think it is a conspiracy that this isn’t considered news every Sunday.
Nancy Policy likes to stand up to the NRA but not the Pentagon. Has nice praise for Occupy Wall Street. But we are the 99% only works if we don’t divide over hot button issues. Gabrielle Giffords has a right to be upset. Clearly if gun laws were a little different she would still be healthy. However James Holmes was extremely bright and extremely determined, any other scenario with different laws would have lead to more than13 deaths. Whether its less powerful weapons were allowed, or on the other side, a gun locked in the teachers desk, it wouldn’t have saved any lives in when it came to Adam Lanza. If a teacher had a loaded gun ready to go off strapped to their waist, a child with a temper tantrum would have been endangered long before Adam Lanza came on the scene. I am sure there are answers but neither side of the gun debate polarization would find them. Meanwhile, just Thursday, a small 16 year old he was mercilessly teased felt he had to stand up for himself with a gun. So much for trying to divide the issue between good guys with guns and bad guys with guns.
In the last election those who hate Muslims lost, so did those who want to fight the drug war. Then 11 libertarians and 11 peace oriented democrats united on wanting Pentagon cuts. I was so full of hope.