re: Am I the only one worried there actually is no solution?

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Anywhere West or South of Austin is effectively Mexico.

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Abilene says hello...but really, the Southern Border of Texas is effectively roughly from Lubbock through about Round Rock over to the Houston burbs.

This whole thread was asking for an answer. Literally the whole point was if current policies aren’t working and the ones being pushed by gun control advocates also won’t work, what’s the answer? Your answer is that it’s gonna happen no matter what we do. I don’t think that’s acceptable.

And for the record, saying it’s “inevitable” and “part of life” about something controlled by humans and their emotions is effectively saying it’s a part of some human’s nature.

There is the tactical solution that I referenced earlier and the ultimate strategic solution...

"In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judaea, 2And saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

3For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Esaias, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.

4And the same John had his raiment of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his meat was locusts and wild honey. 5Then went out to him Jerusalem, and all Judaea, and all the region round about Jordan, 6And were baptized of him in Jordan, confessing their sins.

7But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come? 8Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance: 9And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham. 10And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.

11I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire: 12Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire " Matthew 3.

How many of you are going to skip church this morning?

That’s not what I said. Like I said I don’t know what the helpful thing to do would be, I just think there has to be something. I’m not willing to concede that the rest of my life will be spent with stuff like this happening all the time, at least not yet.

No, you said it was inevitable, part of life, and that gun violence doesn’t exist. Did you not? I disagree.

Right but why have these types of shootings increased drastically in recent years? I get that we are never going to stop shootings. That isn’t what I’m worried about. But how do we stop the trajectory of the high death count mass shootings in the last 5-10 years?

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Like I said I don’t know what the helpful thing to do would be, I just think there has to be something

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You are looking for a policy solution to a problem of good and evil.

The second amendment is the closest thing man has ever come up with for that. Too many disregard it. That is how you stop high death counts... Make everyone an instant first responder.

The other solution is a society where everyone looks at the mote in their own eye before the beam in their neighbor's...and that level of self awareness and examination on the part of me won't happen this side of heaven.

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And a president who doesn't spread hatred would help

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Provide links and examples

Idiot.