Monday, March 31, 2014

A Localized Culture of Violence

The results from Virginia, Minnesota, and Louisiana bring into question the veracity, pragmatism, or true objectives of activists who propose broad restrictions of Constitutional rights when high firearm homicide rates are almost exclusive to less than 1% of the land area and a small fraction of the population. A more logical and effective approach would be to address the root causes of the culture of violence in these communities, but this is more difficult and the required introspective self-analysis appears to be outside of the comfort zone of most community activists.

5 comments:

Tom said...

Didn't need a study to tell me that, I read the New Orleans newspaper and view the New Orleans news on TV everyday.

Meister said...

Interesting article that just reinforces what the enlightened already know. When people don't have to work for a living, they aren't tired enough to go to bed and go out to cause mayhem.

Anonymous said...

Stop feeding feral animals for free and they will either decide to act civilized or perish. It's not really even a culture of violence. It's a culture of lack of personal responsibility for individual behavior. The violence is a symptom, not a root cause.

Nobody in this country wants to see people go hungry, especially innocent children, but feeding entire zip codes for free is indeed producing more feral behavior because there is no focus put upon self reliance and accountability when the hunger pangs are sufficed regardless of behavior.

Iow, when removing hunger depends upon acting civilized, those zip codes will indeed act civilized rather than endlessly acting a fool with empty stomachs.

Anonymous said...

The premise would be true, if reducing crime were the intent. It is not. Which of course is preciselty why core cause is totally absent from the politician legislative matrix.

Anonymous said...

One cannot cure rabid animals - erradication is the usual method employed ...

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