This was a rant in response to the pic down below to one of my relatives...who stated the global temperature had risen 10c this year...
Side point, there is debate if this year's temperate is 10 degrees warmer. There is also debate about how much of climate change (note I didn't say global warming) is due to man made activity, and if it is to what extent. There is no debate that pollution is bad. While everyone is talking about trying to bring some sort of carbon tax into play that is really just a scam that will enrich the usual political/corporate mafia we are for the most part ignoring seriously real ecological catastrophes, like dumping plastics into the ocean and Fukushima. As to guns, one gun death is a tragedy, 30,000 gun deaths is an epidemic. Using your above logic we should be targeting sugar and automobiles which kill way more per year than firearms do, but interestingly few post about those. But I would also like to remind people that these are macro figures in a nation of 313 million people, and how was that magic number calculated? I'm not questioning the number's rough level of accuracy, just what qualifies as gun deaths. Gang on gang violence, defense of home invasions, accidents, what? I'm assuming all...which makes that number less meaningful. And lastly, my biggest point. It would be naive to assume that that corrupt millionaires in both political parties have our best interest in these two areas at heart when they consistently sell out the American people at every turn. You think anthropomorphic climate change, real, imagined, or in the process of being understood, would magically not be used by politicians with nefarious ends to further hidden agendas? Every other issue is...but yet we are expected to automatically believe in the moral purity of those who propose draconian and fascist measures to help prevent climate change...sorry if I'm skeptical. Also those 30,000ish gun deaths, I've studied the numbers some. Less than 500 of those deaths come from the types of weapons (assault rifles) that the government continues to try to ban. Criminals often go for smaller weapons that they conceal more easily. Some other things to ponder...since the UK and Australia banned guns the murder rate went down, but evidence is that it is creeping up again. Also rape, robbery, and other violent crime rates went way up...a correlation? I don't know but the link should be explored regardless of political convenience. There are millions of firearms in possession of the public, these will not magically disappear when laws are passed to ban them and these guns will remain in criminal hands indefinitely, unless you want to create an uber police state to "keep us all safe" which would essentially end American freedom. But that is in process. For some good reads check out The club of Rome and eugenics / depopulation quotes. I'm a conspiracy theorist sure, but out of the mouths of those who the public trusts to deal with guns and climate change comes some very, very interesting quotes for those willing to listen...
Just say'en. I don't know what the answers are (I would agree that arming teachers is a way less than optimal solution...though the "receive the first bullet" logic applies to any known armed person on campus if they are known and if the attackers are methodical psychopaths). I just wish people would stay skeptical. Everyone acknowledges that the federal government has some serious issues with being captured by special interest (banksters, trans-national corporations, radical ideological fringes), but yet many argue that we need to give the federal government constantly more power to deal with problems. I'm not sure given the current state of things that is wise. Especially knowing history. And especially when most of the proposed solutions involve giving up more and more personal freedoms for promised returns that may or may not materialize that are also often littered with unforeseen or quietly down-played consequences. Perhaps the first place to start is to try to get honest people to represent us in office. It doesn't matter what ideology they are, as long as they tell the truth, have all their cards on the table, and have a minimal level of corruption (I'm too jaded to think zero corruption is possible). Having conversations about all the issues that society faces is good and I welcome them. There should be no sacred cows... Just the potential solutions I'm seeing that are getting the most political traction as well as the groups behind said solutions make me shutter...
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