Thursday, March 30, 2023

America has never had a ‘gun problem’ - we have a problem with refusing to recognize root causes, because such recognition has been made culturally/socially unfashionable.


thu, mar 30, 2023 10:14 p.m.

"America has never had a 'gun problem' - we have a problem with refusing to recognize root causes, because such recognition has been made culturally/socially unfashionable."



One of my brothers is a medical doctor.

He was educated at Hopkins, Yale and Harvard.

As a Hopkins undergraduate student he did research one summer in Jamaica.  It was in geology.

This was many decades ago.

It was when Manley was Prime Minister.   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Manley


Manley cracked down hard on guns during his term in the '70s.

I asked my brother what happened in Jamaica during Manley's term   This was after my brother returned to the States.

"There was an increase in machete and knife murders," he said.

It never is about the weapon.

It is always about the person who wields the weapon.


3 comments:

Anonymous said...

The chart speaks for itself.

--GRA

Anonymous said...

Novelist Paul Auster thinks otherwise: his new book "Bloodbath Nation" about mass shootings avoids any mention of the demographics of crime. This should not be surprising, given his political stance “to the left of the Democratic Party.” In this he is 180 degrees away from the views of his late cousin Larry.

Anonymous said...

They always speak of approaching and solving the ROOT CAUSE but it never seems to be approached or solved.