A Sensible Position on Crime and Guns

If stringent gun control were effective in reducing crimes committed by criminals with guns, Chicago would be among the safest cities in America. But it isn't, so why does the Left persist with these useless efforts unless their real intention is to take all of our constitutional rights away? We know the answer. We're not going to budge. And Republicans in Capitol Hill who budge (Lindsay Graham, etc.) is not worthy to serve the citizens of the USA in Congress.

We need to focus on the criminals and not on the tools used to commit crimes. Is this not just common sense? Of course this is not political so here we are.

These gun control opportunists are so tiresome. Isn't there some trans parade they can march in?

This is the first time I've seen good numbers on the changes in available mental wards. In the 1950s we had 340 mental hospital beds per 100,000 people, now we have less than 12 per 100,000. So, the mentally ill are now out playing out their transgender insanity, other forms of mental illness and their violent mental illness in homeless camps and via violent attacks and murders, whether one at a time, or many. Does anyone believe that mental illness is down from 340/100K to 12/100K? I know I don't believe it. If you make the reasonable assumption that at least 85% of those 340 mental ward beds per 100,000 were occupied by dangerously deranged people, and that we probably have just as many crazy people today per capita as we did then (seems like more), and all our 12 per 100K beds are full, it means we have around 277 deranged people per 100,000 not being cared for, and walking around the streets causing harm to themselves and others. In a city like LA, with a population of around 4 million, that's around 11,000 people who wind up as "the homeless" and doing violent crimes. In NYC, with twice that population, that means well over 20,000 mental cases, many violent, roaming the streets, many "the homeless". If only 5% are violent, that's still 1,000+ violent mentally ill people walking around in NYC all the time. Perhaps this is why they are in the news so often. THIS is why things are "starting to seem so crazy" these days. Because we have very large numbers of the mentally ill roaming our cities and towns, because we no longer put them in hospitals and care for them, we let them wander loose, much to the detriment of society and those mentally ill people. Next time it seems like "things are so crazy these days".....this is likely why.

Good read but it is laying out treatments for the symptoms not addressing the root cause. Over the last 60 years what else has changed aside from the number of beds available psychiatric hospitals in America? That has filled our streets with never before seen numbers of violent and insane? The democrat party, the farther Left it goes the more ill, unstable, and volatile American society becomes. The only real solution to stopping this is to stop voting Democrat, teach your kids to never vote democrat and make sure they teach their kids to never under any circumstances vote democrat! If we are to save American society the democrat party must dismantled.

“Conservatives” are no better, wanting to hire 100,000 more school police and arm teachers. In Uvalde and Broward we could see the results huddling in the parking lots. The essential answer is to first lock the doors and keep them locked, with severe consequences for anyone opening an exterior door without authorization. But that’s too simple and apolitical. More school cops is like hiring more TSA screeners…

Positions laid out by conservatives and the NRA are anathema to the Democrats. Judging by the daily news and our elections system, most of their constituents seem to be lawbreakers. Cant have them locked up.

When politicians talk it all comes down to politics. As an example where do unstable teenagers living in small towns, as did the two recent shooters learn about the insane concept of shooting up grocery stores and schools to murder as many innocent shoppers, students, and teachers as possible with most times they themselves becoming suicide by cop victims? As concepts like mass school shootings, and shooting up grocery stores for racial reasons, before the Internet culture of violent video games and very strange social media sites took hold, were absolutely unknown throughout small towns of America, where almost everyone owned firearms that were then only used for hunting and rarely for self-protection purposes. So getting back to the political angle of those issues, clearly the Internet video games and the vast majority of strange social media sights are created and operated by individuals and entities that are very liberal and left wing in nature and therefor politically support the leftist, progressive, and socialist Democrats. History shows that when the Democrats talk about political fixes for mass school shootings and the like, the last thing they want to discuss is anything got to do with the entertainment industry and their violent movie and video productions that show masses of people being killed in one way or another that are bound to leave crazy thoughts in the minds of unstable recipients including what teenagers, in big and small towns all over the country, easily find on the Internet, like off the wall social media and video game sites whereby unstable young people inexperienced in life can easily communicate and plot with other unstable or mentally ill people all over the world, to among other things perpetrate mass murder. Clearly the Democrats ignore all that because the entertainment and Internet industries are liberal Democrat supporting industries. On the other hand the Democrats have no problem attacking the US firearms and related industries and at the drop of a hat will do everything they can get away with putting those industries out of business by banning all their products that relate to Americans keeping and bearing modern firearms by in part pushing leftist created and mythical terms such as calling just about all those firearms held and used by over 100 million law abiding Americans as being “assault weapons” and “weapons of war” that should be banned. A big reason why the Democrats have been trying to perpetrate the idea that modern firearms should not be owned by law abiding Americans is that the US firearms and related industries are mostly all conservative in nature and support Republican political positions. So putting those industries out of business and eliminating the hundreds of thousands of good jobs that those industries provide to ordinary people are of no interest to the Democrats.