In response to the shooting in Colorado, I posted the following article on Huffington Post about Gun Control. Readers obviously have strong views but what amazed me is the racial rhetoric that suddenly became part of the dialogue.
Clearly, there are many people in America who have no desire to listen to reason or to participate in democratic dialogue but simply stand their ground based on blind ideology. We have to change that and taking a stance on gun control is a good place to start. If you like this article, please take a stand yourself by commenting on it and by sharing it WIDELY with your friends and neighborhoods.
Don't let the extremists prevent a serious conversation about guns from being held!
WHY GUN CONTROL IS PATRIOTIC
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...if the essence of what the conservatives claim is true, then the reason we have crazy massacres in this country is because Americans are a bunch of homicidal maniacs with no impulse control; and if that part is true, then should we really allow this same crackpot citizenry to carry firearms? You see the problem?
The Second Amendment of our Constitution was meant to protect us from harm, but had the Founding Fathers known back then that the proliferation of guns would put us in harm's way today, I bet you anything they would have put safeguards in place to prevent abuse.
There is a strong culture of aggression developing in America today which is pretty psychotic. You can see it when you accidentally bump into a stranger on the street, you can see it on the highway when someone explodes in road rage, you can see it in a bar when knife-fights break out over the smallest things, you can see it on the Internet when people start attacking each other in profanity-ridden tirades, you can certainly see it in our political landscape...
Click HERE to read the full Huff Post article.