Grandpa mac
Now politics is kinda boring ;)
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Well, that’s all part of it. But there seems to also be at least the POTENTIAL for evil in just about every person on this planet. How many times recently have there been headlines about respected members of the military or law enforcement who murdered a spouse or other. One moment of rage or a few years worth of building mental health problems and it becomes real damn hard to say with certainty that anybody is 100% trustworthy. Add to that weapons which were designed with the express intent of efficiently and easily killing humans and before long you’re at 10,000 human tragedies a year. Pandora’s box is open and there’s no putting 300 million guns back in it. Y’all have won- America will always be awash in guns and bad people will find ways to obtain them. But if you want to extend an olive branch and agree that our shared objective should be to do what we can to keep bad people from getting guns and take them away if they become a danger, then I gladly accept.The real problem here is, we have a culture war going on in America. There are polar ideas on everything and America is fairly evenly divided. You will never see things my way, I will never see things your way. But that doesn't mean we need to be nasty to each other.
Take your never-ending Trump hate threads, You want him gone and are willing to accept devious and illegal processes to see him gone. I disliked Obama, likely more than you dislike Trump, yet I sat on my hands and waited for the time he would be gone. We will never agree.
Reducing gun violence; its education, keeping fathers in the home, moms at home raising kids and not at work. morals, values, patriotism. My dad pounded gun safety into me. If I displayed un-safe gun handling, he would discipline me fast and harsh. I understood these things from an early age. We always had guns around the house, they were in a glass front display wall in my pop's trophy room. I had access, I also had respect and discipline.
Our political leaders don't offer much as far as role models go. Quality, caring parenting solves many of our societies ill's.