https://www.lewrockwell.com/2018/03/walter-e-williams/not-always-like-this/
The stats show it clear, guns we're much nicer in the late 1800s. Let's make guns nice again ROFL.
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".. One of the unavoidable tragedies of youth is the temptation to think that what is seen today has always been. Nowhere is this more noticeable than in our responses to the recent Parkland, Florida, massacre. Part of the responses to those murders are calls to raise the age to purchase a gun and to have more thorough background checks — in a word, to make gun purchases more difficult. That’s a vision that sees easy gun availability as the problem; thus, the solution is to reduce that availability.
The vision that sees “easy” availability as the problem ignores the fact of U.S. history that guns were far more available yesteryear (http://tinyurl.com/y73sw4ev). With truly easy gun availability, there was nowhere near the gun mayhem and murder that we see today. I’m tempted to ask those who believe that guns are today’s problem whether they think that guns were nicer yesteryear. What about the calls for bans on the AR-15 so-called assault rifle? It turns out that according to 2016 FBI statistics, rifles accounted for 368 of the 17,250 homicides in the U.S. that year. That means restrictions on the purchase of rifles would do little or nothing for the homicide rate..."
FACT: ".. Leaders of the gun control movement know this. Their calls for more restrictive gun laws are part of a larger strategy to outlaw gun ownership..."
STEP BY STEP their goal is only tyrannical government can have guns .. the colonists of 1775 would say, "Are you guys even thinking anymore?"
".. Gun ownership is not our problem. Our problem is a widespread decline in moral values that has nothing to do with guns..."
At this point Walter thinks that respect for authority has gone down hill .. true, but authority's reputation is built on their police state / Stazi shift since 1950s duh.
Walter also talks about religious teachings but there too is a hollow thought as head knowledge rarely touches the heart ..people need to know relationally the only One whose love can transform their behavior from the INSIDE! The religious leaders of Jesus' day put to death an innocent man .. so much for religion being "moral"
".. If any of our great-grandparents or even grandparents who passed away before 1960 were to return, they would not believe the kind of personal behavior all too common today. They wouldn’t believe that youngsters could get away with cursing and assaulting teachers (http://tinyurl.com/ya5zhyu6). They wouldn’t believe that some school districts, such as Philadelphia’s, employ more than 400 school police officers. During my primary and secondary schooling, from 1942 to 1954, the only time one saw a policeman in school was during an assembly period where we had to listen to a boring lecture on safety. Our ancestors also wouldn’t believe that we’re now debating whether teachers should be armed..."
Sorry Walter, while they would be shocked they would want to protect the kids .. believe me, a threatened one-room school-house under threat would have the teacher and all kids 8 and up armed to the teeth for defense!!!
".. There are other forms of behavior that would have been deemed grossly immoral yesteryear. There are companies such as National Debt Relief, CuraDebt and LendingTree, which advertise that they will help you to avoid paying all the money you owe. So after you and a seller agree to terms of a sale, if you fail to live up to your half of the bargain, there are companies that will assist you in ripping off the seller..."
True ... immoral BUT free market .. again, those with Jesus' love inside them WANT to pay all their debts ..
".. There are companies that counsel senior citizens on how to shelter their assets from nursing home care costs. For example, a surviving spouse may own a completely paid-for home that’s worth $500,000. The costs of nursing home care might run $50,000 a year. By selling her house, she could pay the nursing home costs, but her children wouldn’t inherit the house. There are firms that come in to shelter her assets so that she can bequeath her home to her heirs and leave taxpayers to foot the nursing home bill. In my book, that’s immoral, but it is so common that most of us give it no thought..."
Again, amoral people will be amoral. No law can legislate morality .. society is sick .. and it seems the the churches these days have little impact .. maybe because 97% think their god government can make everything fair and equal .. EXCEPT they are the most immoral entity on this planet!
".. There is one moral failing that is devastating to the future of our nation. That failing, which has wide acceptance by the American people, is the idea that Congress has the authority to forcibly use one American to serve the purposes of another American. That is nothing less than legalized theft and accounts for roughly three-quarters of federal spending. For the Christians among us, we should consider that when God gave Moses the commandment “Thou shalt not steal,” he probably didn’t mean thou shalt not steal unless you get a majority vote in the U.S. Congress.".."
You got that one spot-on Walter .. the parasites are alive as well as 2017 saw the highest level of tax revenue collected at Federal, state and local levels.
Conclusion: Immoral people and immoral governments KILL .. guns don't by themselves!
The stats show it clear, guns we're much nicer in the late 1800s. Let's make guns nice again ROFL.
".. One of the unavoidable tragedies of youth is the temptation to think that what is seen today has always been. Nowhere is this more noticeable than in our responses to the recent Parkland, Florida, massacre. Part of the responses to those murders are calls to raise the age to purchase a gun and to have more thorough background checks — in a word, to make gun purchases more difficult. That’s a vision that sees easy gun availability as the problem; thus, the solution is to reduce that availability.
The vision that sees “easy” availability as the problem ignores the fact of U.S. history that guns were far more available yesteryear (http://tinyurl.com/y73sw4ev). With truly easy gun availability, there was nowhere near the gun mayhem and murder that we see today. I’m tempted to ask those who believe that guns are today’s problem whether they think that guns were nicer yesteryear. What about the calls for bans on the AR-15 so-called assault rifle? It turns out that according to 2016 FBI statistics, rifles accounted for 368 of the 17,250 homicides in the U.S. that year. That means restrictions on the purchase of rifles would do little or nothing for the homicide rate..."
FACT: ".. Leaders of the gun control movement know this. Their calls for more restrictive gun laws are part of a larger strategy to outlaw gun ownership..."
STEP BY STEP their goal is only tyrannical government can have guns .. the colonists of 1775 would say, "Are you guys even thinking anymore?"
".. Gun ownership is not our problem. Our problem is a widespread decline in moral values that has nothing to do with guns..."
At this point Walter thinks that respect for authority has gone down hill .. true, but authority's reputation is built on their police state / Stazi shift since 1950s duh.
Walter also talks about religious teachings but there too is a hollow thought as head knowledge rarely touches the heart ..people need to know relationally the only One whose love can transform their behavior from the INSIDE! The religious leaders of Jesus' day put to death an innocent man .. so much for religion being "moral"
".. If any of our great-grandparents or even grandparents who passed away before 1960 were to return, they would not believe the kind of personal behavior all too common today. They wouldn’t believe that youngsters could get away with cursing and assaulting teachers (http://tinyurl.com/ya5zhyu6). They wouldn’t believe that some school districts, such as Philadelphia’s, employ more than 400 school police officers. During my primary and secondary schooling, from 1942 to 1954, the only time one saw a policeman in school was during an assembly period where we had to listen to a boring lecture on safety. Our ancestors also wouldn’t believe that we’re now debating whether teachers should be armed..."
Sorry Walter, while they would be shocked they would want to protect the kids .. believe me, a threatened one-room school-house under threat would have the teacher and all kids 8 and up armed to the teeth for defense!!!
".. There are other forms of behavior that would have been deemed grossly immoral yesteryear. There are companies such as National Debt Relief, CuraDebt and LendingTree, which advertise that they will help you to avoid paying all the money you owe. So after you and a seller agree to terms of a sale, if you fail to live up to your half of the bargain, there are companies that will assist you in ripping off the seller..."
True ... immoral BUT free market .. again, those with Jesus' love inside them WANT to pay all their debts ..
".. There are companies that counsel senior citizens on how to shelter their assets from nursing home care costs. For example, a surviving spouse may own a completely paid-for home that’s worth $500,000. The costs of nursing home care might run $50,000 a year. By selling her house, she could pay the nursing home costs, but her children wouldn’t inherit the house. There are firms that come in to shelter her assets so that she can bequeath her home to her heirs and leave taxpayers to foot the nursing home bill. In my book, that’s immoral, but it is so common that most of us give it no thought..."
Again, amoral people will be amoral. No law can legislate morality .. society is sick .. and it seems the the churches these days have little impact .. maybe because 97% think their god government can make everything fair and equal .. EXCEPT they are the most immoral entity on this planet!
".. There is one moral failing that is devastating to the future of our nation. That failing, which has wide acceptance by the American people, is the idea that Congress has the authority to forcibly use one American to serve the purposes of another American. That is nothing less than legalized theft and accounts for roughly three-quarters of federal spending. For the Christians among us, we should consider that when God gave Moses the commandment “Thou shalt not steal,” he probably didn’t mean thou shalt not steal unless you get a majority vote in the U.S. Congress.".."
You got that one spot-on Walter .. the parasites are alive as well as 2017 saw the highest level of tax revenue collected at Federal, state and local levels.
Conclusion: Immoral people and immoral governments KILL .. guns don't by themselves!
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