It has Happened Again....

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Though the facts were confused throughout the day, the result, regardless of the details is more gun violence. What happened at the Navy Yard Bldg 197 does fit a pattern, which is includes, confused motives, but nothing is uncertain about the death and trauma done to the victims.

This will rise the issue again for the nation and politicians to consider, is it our laws or culture that makes this happen, the use of guns to kill and maim?

The rest of the world does not seem to have this type of manifest mayhem except in the conflicts of ethic, religions and sectarian differences where even more deadly weapons are used other than guns. We, Americans, have a different relationship with guns and the law and, guns and our culture.

Now what to do about it?

In the end, probably nothing. Nothing, because the idea of the use and ownership of guns is tightly bond with the history of our nation and the people that make it up and has been enshrined in law, precedent and near religious belief. However, even with stricter laws on possession, sale and use of guns would there be a difference as long as our culture is bathed in violence as experienced on the streets and seen on the media.

Again, maybe not, as long as fear is a guiding factor on how some of us live our lives, defending ourselves, our families and communities will trump what others would see as common sense as long as it is not them, their families and neighborhoods that are experiencing the fear and facts of violence.

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"defending ourselves, our families and communities"

Who is going to defend us from (the collective) you?  

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Is it always a question of division, or one of the lack of common purpose?

If any thing this new millennium has shown us is that we, the American public are divided, divided by uncommon beliefs and ideas of what and who should govern us as a country, an economy and a culture. 

Has diversity gone too far and has created a state of perpetual division and identification; first as an individual and then a member of a self-defining tribe, making it a them vs. us?  

Again, maybe.  And as result a fear of others, a fear that makes security and self-preservation a priority, if not a paranoia and at times a justified paranoia. 

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Guns and their Bibles

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Have you ever noticed how many accidental shootings were explained by "I was just cleaning my gun and it accidentally went off.

In the first place, who cleans a loaded gun?  Gun nuts?

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In an analysis of 2007-2010 gun-related homicides and suicides from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found in the dozen or so states with the most gun control-related laws, far fewer people were shot to death or killed themselves with guns than in the states with the fewest laws.  Overall, states with the most laws had a 42 percent lower gun death rate than states with the least number of laws.

Who could have ever guessed?

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So what is your solution Ex?

[exedir]

There may be no solution, only compromise, which as a pivot, requires leadership with vision and acceptance based on trust, trust gained by action and not by words.  At this point in time, we are not headed toward such a pivot, but away from it, to a more divided and contentious country and people.

And as such, things will get worse before they get better...and yes, of course, have a good day, but then again, it is always a question of definition as much as it is a question of existence. 

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Who is going to compromise for Christ's Sake?  Gun nuts?  Tea Baggers?  The Republican Congress?

BS like this leads us to believe the right supports, yea celebrates, gun violence -- for they are the short shits and the little dicks hiding behind a real man's weapon. 

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You are correct, there is a lack of leadership from the righteous right wing.