So you might say that the root cause of our predicament is Lyndon Baines Johnson and his Great Society programs, which directly led to the breakdown of the family, particularly the black family.

Thank you! I have been leaving just this message everywhere the "we are taking away your Second Amendment Rights for the children...to reduce violence" etc etc. bs is published.

In reality, they are trying to take away your Second Amendment Rights so they can control the population without fear of retribution...more power to them, no power to YOU.

End of story.

This is where the conversation about violence should begin. The breakdown of the family is the root of many problems we face in this country. However, it won´t be discussed because it puts the source of those problems on failed democrat policies and we know that will never happen. Democrats are uninterested in solutions that don´t entail more control and power. Also, where are the leaders in the entitlement community, both black amd white, who are willing to acknowledge so many of their problems are a result of the breakdown of the family unit? No one wants to talk about this.

Inner city violence - no question, breakdown of the family is the root cause.

Mental illness, however, can strike anywhere. The inner city, the suburbs, rural farms, you name it. Long-time, happily married families can have a child with mental illness. Single moms in the ghetto can have a child with mental illness.

You can´t solve the problem of gun violence in these disparate situations the same way. Making it more difficult for the seriously mentally ill to get hold of weapons will save lives.

This is great stuff - use it to break the propaganda of our enemies. The by-line on the original article is: If Obama & Co. are helpless to prevent gang warfare, what are they doing trying to disarm the law-abiding? Ferrara notes that in Chicago, just this month, 25 young people have been killed with guns - but nobody hears about it because it does not promote the narrative of the politicians. Then he argues - Is is common sense to take guns away from the victims of crimes and yet not be able to take them away from the criminals?

1) The article makes some good points. Unfortunately, these good points don´t show up until well after the author accuses Mr. Obama of being a Marxist. While that may play well with those of us who already disagree with the President, it´s not going to serve to convince anybody else.

2)"But if someone in that parking lot crowd where Giffords was shot by another crazed gunman had a concealed carry permit, and was armed, some of the six people who lost their lives that day would have been far more likely to still be with us."

Sorry, but it is my understanding that there was indeed at least one person there with a concealed carry permit, but did not use his firearm...

More gun laws will change nothing, except to make the law abiding more vulnerable to gun violence from others.
Congress can make all the laws it wants to prevent house fires, but they will still happen.
Congress can make all the laws it wants to prevent car accidents, but they will still happen.
There over 300 million people in the USA and a very small percentage of them will become violent. I wish it were different, but it´s not.

Here´s a simple fact of life in American politics:

Democrats create problems, so they can be the ones to march in and claim to solve them.

(Of course, what they never - in decades! - seem to realize and understand (or own) are their UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES. The results of their manipulations to GET the problems they want to then solve, always always ALWAYS get magnified, expanded, and enlarged many times over, exponentially.

They are absolutely the stupidest humans on the planet. Without a doubt. THAT´s the root cause of gun violence ... their constant pandering to the lowest common denominator, stirring up their (false) emotions creating REAL emotions in their intended constituency, and creating serious life-and-death situations all over the place.

And they want US to allow THEM ... now?! ... to solve them? ESPECIALLY this one?

Yeah, no.

If they´re saying things about your safety, your health, the environment, or the children, they´re talking ab out money...your money...every time.

None of this is true. Christy Heffner told us it was caused by globaloney warming. /s/

The stark reality is that Democrats care nothing about the individuals they claim to be helping. No sane person, except the Democrat racists, would claim policies that have destroyed black families have somehow been successful. Democrats continue to have a plantation mentality and believe the black people need to be controlled so they will vote Democrat.

There is no long term benefit to society in making more and more people, black, brown or white, dependent on Democrat instigated give away programs. The Democrat controlled school systems are perfectly happy with so many low income students never learning to read. The whole process is about money that comes back to the Democrats so they can control more and more people. In the meantime, more and more low income students are unable to qualify for jobs that will enable them to experience the American Dream.

I´ve been saying this for years. No one wants to listen. Always more and more money sent into the welfare family. How is that working our for you all you LBJ fans?

"out for you"