re: Honore: America's in denial about gun culture

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America is in denial about the lack of quality mental health care offered in this country.

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FIFY

Also throw in not enough attention paid to the mentally ill at young ages. There's a lot of good people out there trying to get help for their children and the options are limited. Especially if you reside south of the Mason Dixon.

Fix this and you make a much more progress in decreasing middle/upper income victim gun crimes than trying to outlaw guns.

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they don't know why they have or want guns - just because.

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I think you need to meet more gun people.

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And its going to lead us to Australia.

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You might want to read up on the US Supreme Court case from 2008, "D.C. vs. Heller". The kinds of laws passed in Australia aren't even close to Constitutional here.

Actually, if you read the Breyer dissent you'd find that all of the SCOTUS justices concurred with the idea that 2nd Amendment protects an individual right (Stevens was more concerned with stare decisis than actually substantiating the "collective theory") though some of the supporting pieces of those dissents were very poorly thought through in some cases out of context with the core of the Heller case.

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Parenting isn't going to fix this cultivated, poisonous sense of paranoia and fear we have in this country.

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It's not paranoia if it's true.

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Look at his title.

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Ok he's a General or was. Now what should I look at?

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Really? Exactly what has he done, aside from Katrina?

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Apparently, yelling at people during Katrina makes you a hero.

As for Australia, yes, they've had mass shootings since the ban, but they are completely ignored. The left insists that they have had none. They also had a 50%+ increase in overall violent crimes, and they don't have nearly the number of thug pieces of shite that we have in this country. They had a 7% drop in gun homicides, which is a joke when you consider they banned 100% of the handguns. The left also brags about the less than 10% drop in gun=related suicides. LOL. Right, but the overall rate didn't go anywhere. They just found other ways to kill themselves.

The stats are similar in Britain. Their gun homicides actually went up for a couple of years before leveling off to what they were prior to the ban. But you won't hear that comparison. Instead, they'll compare their post-ban stats to America's current stats in an attempt to convince people that bans make people safer.

Conveniently, in order for a gun death to be included in the stats, there has to be a criminal conviction, so if a guy guns down a theater full of people but isn't caught, those deaths aren't included. Chew on that for a moment. The sacks of shite actually passed a law just to hide the stats. They're actually helping the criminal underworld do what it does.

These are not things done by people who believe that they are making things safer with gun bans, so the only logical conclusion is that this isn't the reason they want it done.

Honore is a loud mouthed ex-general.

Did he have an ideal America and a plan on how we can get there. The left never does.

Anytime there is a shooting they use that as an opportunity to try to take guns away from the law abiding gun owners.