AGinHI said:
joelshaw85 said:
Everyone had their shotguns and rifles on their gunracks at school back in the late 70s early 80s. Potheads hanging around. No problems
I wrote the following in a post on F16 titled Active shooter at UNLV December of last year and thought I would repost part of it here:
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Guns have been in American households since colonial times when nearly everyone owned a firearm for self-defense or hunting food. In the early 19th century the President of Yale, Timothy Dwight, wrote "To trust arms in the hands of the people at large has, in Europe, been believed . . . to be an experiment fraught only with danger. Here by a long trial it has been proved to be perfectly harmless . . . If the government be equitable; if it be reasonable in its exactions; if proper attention be paid to education of children in knowledge, and religion, few men will be disposed to use arms, unless for their amusement, and for the defense of themselves and their country."
In the early 20th century when there was massive immigration, rampant racism and bigotry, over half of Americans lived in poverty, only 9 out of 100 teenagers graduated from high school, working conditions were deplorable, there were few government welfare programs, and firearms were easily accessible, gun violence was one-sixth of what it is today (based on homicide rate).
In his book Economic Facts and Fallacies, noted economist Thomas Sowell quoted Senator Edward Brooke, "who grew up in Washington's black community in the 1920s and 1930s." Senator Brooke said, "For young people growing up in America today, stories of my youth will seem almost incomprehensible. It will require the suspension of their sense of reality to picture a time when large areas of Washington D.C., were truly safe, when families stayed together, neighbors helped one another, students were encouraged to study, and there were no drugs or drive-by shootings".
Of course it begs the question - What changed?
At one time, liberals were for the working man. It was liberalism that gave us the holidays, unions, and social security. But liberals also had a sense of morality and justice.
However, liberalism changed in which they began to embrace degeneracy, immorality, disrespect for the law, morals, patriotism, and respectful Society. And then the Democrats embraced this and decided to change Society and for that to happen, they needed full control.
California was the testing ground and they found it effective.
