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Das Kindermord Wird
Dec. 19th, 2012 03:41 pmI've read a lot about guns and mental health lately, and was going to write something, but Ian Welsh, a fine essayist, put what I've been thinking already quite well, and offered a few suggestions too:
On Killing Sprees
2012 December 19
by Ian Welsh
.I’ve waited a bit to weigh in on this, but I think it’s time.
( Read more... )
From http://www.ianwelsh.net/ - you should see what else he has written there.
He offers some very good suggestions, however I do not seem them actually being enacted, least of all in the USA. You know a lot of the reasons, sing them with me: There are too many guns (about 300 million, or about 85 guns for every 100 Americans of all ages, sizes and trigger pulls) and they will never be reeled back in. There's too much ammunition of the wrong kinds, and it can all be reloaded anew with only a bit of trouble at home or in the bunker. There are already too many high-capacity clips, again in the wrong hands. Big Pharma has far too high a stake in keeping far too many people medicated at far too early a stage - I think we're seeing just the leading edge of this. Oh, and as for not treating everyone you meet like shit? Not quite the default setting yet for everyone, it wasn't always the American Way but it is now the way to bet.
It's so easy to be overwhelmingly negative in this very frightening, overwhelming and chaotic milieu, or rather to stand at the edge of it all whatching it swirling down the bowl and hoping that your country will not follow suit... I see so many of the signs here. I have no easy, quick or conclusive methods of my own to offer besides - aw hell, I started writing them and it got Pollyannaish too quickly.
It didn't have to be this way. It never really did. And it still doesn't.
On Killing Sprees
2012 December 19
by Ian Welsh
.I’ve waited a bit to weigh in on this, but I think it’s time.
( Read more... )
From http://www.ianwelsh.net/ - you should see what else he has written there.
He offers some very good suggestions, however I do not seem them actually being enacted, least of all in the USA. You know a lot of the reasons, sing them with me: There are too many guns (about 300 million, or about 85 guns for every 100 Americans of all ages, sizes and trigger pulls) and they will never be reeled back in. There's too much ammunition of the wrong kinds, and it can all be reloaded anew with only a bit of trouble at home or in the bunker. There are already too many high-capacity clips, again in the wrong hands. Big Pharma has far too high a stake in keeping far too many people medicated at far too early a stage - I think we're seeing just the leading edge of this. Oh, and as for not treating everyone you meet like shit? Not quite the default setting yet for everyone, it wasn't always the American Way but it is now the way to bet.
It's so easy to be overwhelmingly negative in this very frightening, overwhelming and chaotic milieu, or rather to stand at the edge of it all whatching it swirling down the bowl and hoping that your country will not follow suit... I see so many of the signs here. I have no easy, quick or conclusive methods of my own to offer besides - aw hell, I started writing them and it got Pollyannaish too quickly.
It didn't have to be this way. It never really did. And it still doesn't.
