On 28 Oct 2019, Moondog said the following...
Mo> Something I notice all the candidates and most politicians do is step soft
Mo> around the subject of urban violence. On a fourth of July weekend more
Mo> people die in Chicago than all the mass shootings combined. It doesn't fi
Mo> the mainstream narratives of hate filled paranoid fanatics and domestic
Mo> terrorists, and it seems like a taboo to talk about people of certain race
Mo> or nationalities without automatically being declared a rascist.
That's a big problem with the DNC - they tiptoe around things to not be
'racist', 'sexist', or 'transphobic/homophobic'. I'm probably one of the
people they hate the most, being a bisexual transgender woman who believes
that my right to defend myself with a firearm should never be infringed, and
that a 1911 is more effective at putting whatever ill-mannered person who
wants me dead, be they some religous zealot or just a dimestore crook - in
the ground than calling a cop with a 3-5 minute response time where i'll
inevitably be shot, stabbed or kidnapped by the time they're on scene.
It's not so much we have paranoid fanatics (though they are fanatics to an
extent) and domestic terrorists in this country, as it is extremists and
people who are clearly mentally unwell (The former are a very vocal minority
in some areas, to the chagrin of anyone with a functioning cranium). Mental
health if anything is something that is overlooked in these incidents, and
like what happened in Christchurch, there's often political components to
those mental issues, in what drive them to the breaking point.
I don't claim to be the prime of mental health (As I've got Aspergers, ADHD,
Anxiety issues and Gender Dysphoria), but I at least try my damndest to get a
grip on myself and keep myself from doing overly rash things.
Another problem, as you mentioned, was with inner city crime. There's a
multitude of factors regarding why it's so prevalent in some cities. You
could point out high school dropout rates among different races and try to
curb them through initiatives, you could point out drug use and try to take
the switzerland approach and try to locally legalize soft drugs like pot, and
provide government-funded aid for those addicted to drugs like heroin or
meth. One of the big ones, and I know from experience as my sister had spent
time in Jail for drug offenses - is that many people who get arrested for
drugs aren't even hardened criminals, and once they're in the system they're
fucked for quite a while, if not the rest of their lives. You could pin part
of the gun crime problem on that - on how your regular joe or jane gets put
in the slammer and has no choice but to turn to crime when they can't find
employment due to a criminal record, and on top of that, they return to drugs
and eventually overdose because they're not provided the tools to
rehabilitate themselves. In Kentucky, we have such a system like that, but it
still requires you to be in jail for a set period. You could pin gun crime on
a multitude of other factors as well, such as cultural divides and
socio-economic issues, such as gentrification of certain neighborhoods
causing cultural clashes as citizens are forced to move to more impoverished
neighborhoods as a result thereby, among other socio-economic problems.
I'm no analyst, but the gun crime problem is clearly being tackled
incorrectly by the DNC. Probably because they have an ulterior motive to it -
given how hard left it's become in recent years, I wouldn't be surprised if
they're trying to take away firearms for the sake of trying to eventually
install a more restrictive nanny state like what we're seeing in the UK.
Born too Early to experience the scene.
Born just in time to see it come back.
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