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If America is to remain intact, it will HAVE to adopt a 'live & let live' attitude between the States. This means massive decentralization of issues/power over things we can not agree on a national level. And that includes issues that were previously 'decided' in the past to be national issues.
There was a fistfight on street near where I work, police was called, and they arrived 4 hours later.
That survey shows the vast majority of Americans who own guns are not members of the NRA and that most favor some form of gun control.
People are generally poorly informed, and groups of people often make poor decisions as a group. That is why we have a constitution that is supposed to overrule some of the "shortsightedness of the masses."
That type of thinking is present, but most of people I know got guns for home protection because police is unreliable and more concerned about visiting donut shops and retiring at 45 to collect pension for 40 years. They will not come unless someone is shot. There was a fistfight on street near where I work, police was called, and they arrived 4 hours later.
Side topic to the main point of the thread. This is a poor litmus test of police performance. A cop once wrote, "The speed at which an officer rushes to a "fight" call is inversely proportional to the amount of time he's been on the force."
In Baltimore City they would not bother to show up at all. Are you sure that the 4 hours later part wasn't just a coincidence?
A Hispanic friend of mine, who lives in barrio, has youth group members from Salva Maratrucha shooting automatic weapons in air in his neighborhood.
They do not bother to show up and investigate thefts, if they catch thieves it is more by a stroke of luck, and even murder clearance rate in big cities is abysmally low.
There is only one side to guns.
"A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed."
It's too complex for all Americans.
They can't understand one of our most concise simplest rights.
I'm forming a militia,the only regulation is that one must own a gun.Therefore no Rep/Con state can place any regulations on my ownership of "arms". DONE!
Fucking Republicans & Democrats think they can add any infringements they choose. They even want to have restrictions on what can be said in & on locations of their choosing.
Not one American is a psychic or time traveler. No one has a clue to what the founding fathers were thinking or saying in private discussions of the 2nd Amendment. No reports by the media of the day twisted or left anything ,they knew,out.
They all had an agenda. Bet some said: "Fuck no ! No one is taking my guns."
Fact - There are 126,000,0...
They do not bother to show up and investigate thefts, if they catch thieves it is more by a stroke of luck, and even murder clearance
Too bad they weren't in El Paso.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Authorities in North Carolina say a customer armed with a concealed gun shot two robbery suspects at a 7-Eleven, killing one and injuring the other.
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police spokeswoman Cindy A. Wallace said in a news release that two suspects held the customer at gunpoint and took his wallet early Thursday morning.
That's when they say the customer "perceived a lethal threat" and pulled out his gun and shot the suspects.
News outlets report that 16-year-old Qwanterrius Stafford died at a hospital.
Police charged 17-year-old Brenna Harris with attempted robbery with a dangerous weapon, conspiracy to commit armed robbery and armed robbery from person.
North Carolina automatically charges teens 16 and older as adults.
News outlets report the customer will not face charges.
https://www.wral.com/customer-with-concealed-gu...
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Why do we have a country where trust and civic belonging are in short supply?
https://archive.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2007/08/05/the_downside_of_diversity/