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Title: More Gun Violence: Let’s Look Beyond Politics
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Lew Rockwell/Ron Paul Institute
URL Source: https://www.lewrockwell.com/2018/02 ... nce-lets-look-beyond-politics/
Published: Feb 21, 2018
Author: Ron Paul
Post Date: 2018-02-21 06:06:17 by Deckard
Keywords: None
Views: 867
Comments: 13
Another terrible school shooting took place in Parkland, Florida last week and unfortunately many politicians and pundits have used the tragedy – as they often do – to push their own agenda. Many will use the tragedy to argue that Americans should be prohibited from owning guns. As if anti-gun laws would dissuade a disturbed or violent individual intent on causing harm. Those intent on mass murder don’t obey gun laws. For example, why do those calling for more gun control remain silent when armed federal agents raid Amish farms to stop them from selling raw milk? This shows the hypocrisy of those who call for restrictions on private firearms ownership while supporting the use of government violence as a means of controlling our lives. Unfortunately there are many key questions lost in the race to score political points from the shooting. Why does it always seem that the shooter in these mass killings has been on some kind of psychotropic drugs? As the New American magazine pointed out this week, at least ten high profile mass shootings have been committed by individuals who “were either on — or just recently coming off of — psychiatric medications.” The young killer in Florida was no different. According to his aunt, he had been on these medications to treat mental problems. Why is no one questioning these medications – all of which come with labels warning of horrific side effects? Perhaps one reason they are ignored is that the pharmaceutical industry spends billions of dollars lobbying Congress. Also, how is it possible that the FBI once again missed so many obvious clues that a violent person intent on causing massive harm to others was about to strike? Is the FBI actually this incompetent, or perhaps its focus was in other areas — like meddling in our own elections by presenting “evidence” they knew was flawed to the FISA court to get permission to spy on the Trump campaign? We’ve heard many stories of how alert FBI field agents tried to alert their bosses before 9/11 that foreigners were taking flight lessons but were not interested in learning how to land the planes. Is giving the federal government more power to spy on us – as they demand – the answer to stop these terrible crimes? Hardly! Those who think that giving federal authorities greater surveillance powers might prevent mass shootings should consider that the FBI has been alerted that the latest school shooter had made Facebook posts and YouTube comments talking about his intention to be, as he put it, “a professional school shooter.” But the Bureau failed to properly investigate the tips. If the FBI fails to stop someone who openly boasts about their intentions on social media why should we believe that giving them the power to snoop on every American would increase our safety? We cannot stop tragedies like this by banning guns. We need to look seriously into the psychotropic drugs that more and more Americans are being prescribed. We need to demand that our elected Representatives demand a real day of reckoning at the FBI. We need to keep focused and ignore those who politicize such events. 
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#1. To: Deckard (#0)
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Impossible! It's ALL about politics because even a retard understand there is no such thing as a violent gun than there is a violent watermelon. They are inert OBJECTS WITH NO MIND OR WILL OF THEIR OWN. It is the height of hypocrisy for the left,who have done nothing their whole lives but try to ferment violent revolution in America to now jump on a anti-violence bandwagon. Why does it always seem that the shooter in these mass killings has been on some kind of psychotropic drugs? Ok,WE need to be honest,too. That's a "which came first,the chicken or the egg?" question. The left is trying to blame all this on guns,and the right is trying to blame it all on drugs. Both are either lying and know it,or lying and too stupid to realize it. No gun has ever made anyone mentally unstable,and the drugs shrinks give to people to calm them,calm them. The problems happen with SOME drugs if the patients quit taking them,not BECAUSE they take them.
spoken like an obvious gun nut, a watermelon is unlikely to kill you even if it hits you in the head and is not a viable weapon beyond ten feet, a gun was engineered to kill and go on killing at much greater distance. Yes you need an idiot on the end of the gun to create the lethal scenario and why is it you don't want to be protected from idiots? I would say it is because you are an idiot too. You want to protect from the gun by sedating the population or at least the idiots, it is easier to take away the lethal weapon from the gun nuts until they learn safe usage of said weapon and not to let them in the hands of children, the insane, the jihadists, the racially challenged, the drug takers, the criminal element. That is more than half the population, you may as well go the rest of the way. There are 300,000,000 guns and about 50,000,000 actaully qualifed to have one
I want the inalienable right I have to protect MYSELF to be honored.. Why is it you want me to be unable to do so?
while not wanting others to be protected. What do you want to protect yourself from? do you live in fear? when have you had to use a gun to protect yourself? It is fantasy, it is a nightmare
I want the inalienable right I have to protect MYSELF to be honored.. --- Why is it you want me to be unable to do so? --- tpaine --- while not wanting others to be protected. What do you want to protect yourself from? do you live in fear? when have you had to use a gun to protect yourself? Your claim that I don't want to protect others from loonies and terrorists is crazy. -- I only used a gun professionally for 3 years in the army, and in those days we all feared the cold war turning hot. How bout you, ever served?
#13. To: tpaine (#11)
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I had three years of military training in my teens. I live in a place where violent confrontation is not the norm and that is because the population doesn't feel the need to be armed. This doesn't mean guns don't exist or that fights don't occur. I personally know the dangers of guns in the household, as child I took my uncle's pistol and aimed it at another child. My disturbed teenage son stole guns and my house was under siege until he surrendered. On one occasion I had to personally disarm him
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#2. To: sneakypete (#1)
It's ALL about politics because even a retard understand there is no such thing as a violent gun than there is a violent watermelon
#4. To: paraclete, Y'ALL (#2)
Yes you need an idiot on the end of the gun to create the lethal scenario and why is it you don't want to be protected from idiots?
#9. To: tpaine (#4)
I want the inalienable right I have to protect MYSELF to be honored..
#11. To: paraclete (#9)
: paraclete, Y'ALL --- you need an idiot on the end of the gun to create the lethal scenario and why is it you don't want to be protected from idiots?I
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