This is exactly the time.
It's another wave of Deep State lies and mind control coming and we've got the usual TDS trolls serving as their minions. Every bit of nonsense about disarming citizens and blaming the POTUS for bad people who were bad long before he was elected is intentionally preventing any progress toward reducing murder, which thankfully has declined drastically (60%ish) since I was young and actually rarely heard abut it. It did spike badly during Obama's last 2 years in office but declined again after that.
Sadly, no such decline in suicide has happened and in fact over 30,000 of these "gun violence" figures Beto and Dems are spouting again today were suicides. Unfortunately my son's closest friend was one of them. After decades of finding no help wherever he turned, the pain was too much. I blame the government, all of it. 47,173 Americans committed suicide in 2017. Tenth on the cause of death list.
A few responses:
Chris Craig - All recent mass murderers share common threads which are irrational hatred and blind acceptance of mass media misinformation. Something you display in every political thread. If I had to pick the most likely poster here to kill a mass of strangers just from what they post, it would definitely be you. You seem to think the same of me. We have met in person and I'll bet we both have a milder opinion of each other as face to face human beings. Let's have a beer sometime.
Julius - I enjoy your thoughtful posts and your restraint in not trolling people who troll you. There are 4 or 5 posters (including a mod or two) here who weakly troll every single thread I post and yes, I troll them and only them back occasionally. I'm not Christian and rarely turn the other cheek. I'm an American and I stand my ground and speak my piece. Obama had his FBI lower the mass murder definition to 4, and that is why I use that number, because they have the only credible data on crime in America. Dozens upon dozens of people are murdered every single day in about a dozen American cities, year after year, and you are correct that we don't talk about them, nor do we know who any of them are at all (except for HCP, he knows a few). Why isn't the media blasting every outlet and website with the names of the 20-some people murdered in Chicago yesterday? The 40 people murdered there last weekend? Where are the victims pictures, their stories, the demands for justice? I'll tell you why. Racism of the media, racism of politicians, racism of the Deep State that owns them, and the fact that these murders are almost always committed with stolen or illegally sold weapons in cities with the most stringent anti-Second Amendment gun control laws. Completely destroys the gun control argument, actually supports the need for freedom to carry for self defense. Maybe after Real Estate eases up a bit in the fall I'll start a thread with daily highlights of each day's victims of the drug cartels. A mighty but worthy undertaking. Okay, I've already talked myself into it.
El Presidente - Keep on keepin' on. We agree about 50% of the time and that's perfect for debate.
HCP - Every time we have a thread about murder you tell me not to post because a friend/relative/co-worker of yours was just murdered. Shutting down debate about the actual facts, reasons, causes, hidden agendas and solutions only assures you will grieve more often. I am pretty mindful to edit and fact-check my posts before posting so I don't know where you see hate in them. Maybe that's what you feel for everyone who disagrees with you?
