Quote:
Originally Posted by MrMastodonFarm
It's not like you can only deal with one issue at a time.
|
Is anyone even attempting to fix the poverty issues? Its been proven time and time again that the War on Drugs and archaic prison sentences for minor drug related incidents have created a nasty environment for many lower class families where there is no 'parent' figure around to look after the kids, so they also resort to crime, gangs and drugs to find their way.
It is an abusive cycle that the US is not even attempting to solve.
People love to blame movies, TV shows, music on a supposedly increasingly violent society, when in fact there is a common trend of overall militarization of law enforcement in the US. Every single day SWAT teams make raids for drug related incidents, often minor in nature. Full out assaults are made using weapons and equipment that no police force should have. The Pentagon has increasingly been outfitting police forces around the US in military style equipment. This has been widely reported. People are talking about gun culture run amok in the US, and NOBODY is looking at these issues. Is the increased militirization of the government from our armed forces($600 billion dollar DoD budget) down to the lowest levels of our local law enforcement leading to a corresponding level of violence in the surrounding culture? A friend of mine asked me that exact question the other day. Crazy theory I know, but damn if you actually think about it.
I'll post the article again about the War on Drugs, and how our local police force is acting like a full out military force.
http://www.alternet.org/rights/15304...gs?page=entire
Just a vicious, vicious cycle. Even the US foreign policy, which is extremely aggressive in nature is contributing to this cycle of violence IMO.
So not as simple as saying 'ban guns.' Not even close. Its way more complicated than that, which explains why people choose to just focus on the 'ban guns' part of it.