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It’s just like buying a candy bar.
by elephantjournal.com on Apr 19, 2009
60 Minutes: Obama, Background Checks, Outgunned Police and ‘Reasonable’ Gun Control vs. NRA, Assault Weapons, Columbine & Virginia Tech.
This is what TV could be, all the time. Quality, investigative, fair and balanced—truly—yet with a distinct point of view.
60 Minutes, which my first love’s stepdad used to watch religiously back in high school, is a TV tradition or lineage that would do Edward R. Murrow proud. Tonight I happened to watch it for one of the first times in awhile…and three programs in a row blew me away.
The first, on Gun Control vs. the Gun Lobby, showed that Obama’s support of reasonable gun control—making assault weapons illegal once again, so as to keep our streets and the police who watch over them safer—is met with vehement resistance in many parts of the country including Virginia—where the mentally ill or a felon can walk into a gun show and, without showing ID, buy 15 guns including ammo in as many minutes.
As the NRA loves to say, it’s true that guns don’t kill people—people kill people. That said, for those who remember Columbine, Virginia Tech or a too long list of other recent gun-related tragedies, guns sure do make it easy for people to kill people.
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I live in Virginia. Gun lust is in the eyes of children here. My husband's niece received one of those Barbie pink guns (makin' 'em female friendly!) for Christmas. Makes me sick. Gun lust is so overwhelming here and Virginia is always 25 years behind the times. It will take a loooong time for change. In the meantime, more guns will be in the hands of babies.
I watched that show and it was easy to feel sympathetic for their point of view. BUT look at what happened in Australia when they began gun control and destroyed their citizen's guns. Crime did not go down, it skyrocketed! There are terrible gun crimes in this country and accidents. We like to think that if guns were romoved that would remove the problem, but it would only remove the means for the common person to protect themselves. That vulnerability leads to increase in crime. Making it tougher to get a gun IS gun control and it takes away our rights. Let's just say IF I felt extremely threated by a person, a group, or a government and KNEW that the police couldn't/wouldn't protect me, what could I do? Just consider the flip side before agreeing with taking away rights to TRY to stop criminals. It is such a fundamental part of the Constitution! I don't know what Liz meant by babies, but a lot of people considered the young men who protect us in many wars, specifically WWII, to be considered kids. What a blessing it is that so many young people can be trained to use firearms and are willing to do good, not evil. Thank you.