Gun Violence Is a Result
of Our Broken Culture
Townhall,
by
Laura Hollis
Original Article
Posted By: Ida Lou Pino,
6/25/2021 11:30:02 AM
It's shameful that it took so long to declare a national holiday to commemorate the end of slavery in the United States. But the nation's first official Juneteenth holiday weekend got off to an inauspicious start, to say the very least. CNN reported gun violence in multiple locations, including my own small town of Granger, Indiana. My teenage son works at the family-owned grocery store in the same little shopping center where five people were shot (one fatally) at a "Juneteenth Summer Bash" party held at a tavern.
Take blacks, goat humpers and illegals out of the violent crime statistics, and the US has violent crime rates that are akin to Switzerland. Everyone knows where the problems lie; they simply refuse to address it.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Laotzu 6/25/2021 11:45:05 AM (No. 826261)
To marry the words "gun" and "violence" is to concede Leftist framing and concede defeat before the argument even begins. How have conservative commentators not learned this, yet?
Violence is violence. To engage in a narrow discussion of a singular tool of violence is absurd.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
DVC 6/25/2021 12:18:20 PM (No. 826305)
FTA:
"The State of Health for Blacks in Chicago" -- which shows that the homicide rate for Blacks in the city is nine times higher than it is for non-Black residents.
There is the heart of the matter, a totally dysfunctional, ultra violent inner city black "culture".
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
MickTurn 6/25/2021 12:24:17 PM (No. 826316)
SO, if Juneteenth was the END OF SLAVERY, why are the Democraps STILL HOLDING Blacks as Slaves on the Marxist Plantation?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
slipstik 6/25/2021 12:25:18 PM (No. 826320)
First, there is NO SUCH THING as "gun" violence. There is only human violence, whether it's guns, knives, cars, hammers, or any other handy tool.
Second, every time we.say "the problem is..." we are tugging on one string in the universally BIGGEST yarn ball, and all that tugging just distorts that yarn ball, not fix it. There is no "problem". There is a constellation of problems, some new, some old, some historical, some ideological. We can't just pick out our favorite problem and think we've solved anything.
If there's anything I've realized over the last 70 some years, it's that we've lost our way. No discipline. No moral compass. No education. Money is power and there's never enough. No roles. No family. "Flipping" houses, not living in them or raising a family in them. Deep state. The military-industrial complex,. Smartphones in the hands of 7 year olds. The internet for these "smartphones" to run on.
I could continue for hours. But I will say, sex is only the tail on this dog.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
red1066 6/25/2021 1:08:56 PM (No. 826375)
It's not shameful because some made up holiday has taken this long to be established. What's shameful is the total lack of knowledge by the black inner city culture that hundreds of thousands of white men died to free their relatives over a 150 years ago. What's shameful, is that the black culture in general still votes for the same political party that enslaved their relatives in the first place. What's shameful is that blacks killing each other at record rates for some of the dumbest things is more deadly than anything a slave owner ever did to their slaves. Slaves were expensive, and only wealthy people could afford them. As such, beating and injuring, and even killing a slave was not in the best interest of the slave owner's business.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
PESSIMIST 6/25/2021 2:00:47 PM (No. 826432)
The first line of the article indicates to me the this guy is a scaredy cat.
The whole country isn't "broken." We're not "all to blame." My sweet little neighborhood is safe and quiet. No kids loitering on the street at night, hooting at frightened adults hurrying home from shopping. (The kids are inside, prepping their homework or preparing to go to bed.). During the day, moms and dads together, walking with the kids. No gunshots as part of the ambient environment.
The broken-ness is localized. Guns don't kill -- certain people do. You want to identify problems? Name who it is whose culture is broken. It ain't mine. Then we'll have an intelligent "discussion."
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
doctorfixit 6/27/2021 8:47:58 AM (No. 827869)
"Our" broken culture? Excuse me, my culture is diametrically opposed to the chaos of liberalism.
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