GUNS DON'T KILL PEOPLE, OR DO THEY?

[Blindgreed1]

The problem is the glorification of violence in all its forms. As long as we're ok with nuking the shit out of a home problem placed before us, the western culture is going to remain violent. And don't think that comment excludes the Australians, whose xenophobic and violent history isn't nearly far enough back for you to be lining up for the high horse ride.

We are a violent race, plain and simple. We like to kill the ever - loving shit out of each other in as many different ways possible, and when we run out of ways we invent new ones. Until we get a handle on that basic impulse, that greed, that need for attention and tendency toward wanton cruelty, it doesn't matter whether we have zero guns or a million each.

I watched a horrifying documentary via Netflix on the genocide in 1960's indonesia, an act perpetrated by gangsters who had US support in which over a million Chinese nationals and Communists were murdered.

Few guns. The gangsters, who now basically run the country as a corrupt personal piggy bank, describe bragging how they killed using twisted wire garrotes, bricks, machetes, table legs, whatever was handy. The name of the show escapes me but it was horrific.

My point is that a violent culture, whether affluent or dirtpoor, will find ways to commit violence on a massive scale. They just use what tools are available to them.

Apparently we're both retarded and are completely missing the point because that is exactly what I'm smoking. It's the culture that needs to change. Not the tools.