>>>>>>Why illness? How about it is a sign of the complete lack of moral values a lot of younger people have now that they live out of day care with replaceable or non-existant parents, no religion, no respect for law, no respect for school - the result of half a century of dismantling of the American family by those who try to see how 'liberal' they can be.
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>>>>>Because if that were the case, we'd be seeing this kind of behavior all over. Since violent crime is generally down in the last 15 years, that doesn't seem to be the case.
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>>>>Seems pretty popular now.
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>>>"Seems" is the key word, in my view. I suspect that's the influence of 24-hour news channels and the Internet.
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>>>The stats indicate that violent crime is down. We're hearing about a lot of incidents we wouldn't have heard about 30 years ago.
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>>>Tamar
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>>I guess gun control is out the window then ...
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>Aren't our gun ownership and gun fatality rates still through the roof compared to those in other developed nations? Just because violent crime is down compared to X years ago doesn't mean there is no more room for improvement.
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>Please understand this is not intended as a general argument for gun control. I realize there are lots of law-abiding Americans who love their guns. It just seems like an odd rationale for writing off gun control.

The problem with gun control is that it's a bit too late. There are already too many guns to have any chance of going around and collecting them. Plus - if guns were illegal - then the only people that would have them would be the bad-guys!!!
This is an interesting article:
http://spikegary.newsvine.com/_news/2010/01/08/3729216-anti-gun-senator-shoots-intruder
...its about a Anti-Gun Senator shooting an intruder...hahaha.