Silas Mercury wrote: But look at the statistics.
. Cops are murdering blacks for no reason
. ISIS are beheading everyone
. Social media means hate and tension is rife
And we, "keepers of the peace" just sit here on our forums, occasionally having a peaceful protest. That gets you nowhere. With common sense gun control, aggresive riots could show evil and horrible people that the common people can and will if necessary defend their ideals by force of arms.
Silas, I know a lot of people tend to attack your views as they see them as misguided. So understand that this is in no way attacks on what you have said, just somethings I hope you will consider.
1. With the utmost respect to LEO's here many of whom I have worked with in the past, there is a certain level of militarization that has not existed in some time, I trained officers in use of fire arms for reference. There is a reason for them always hovering over the holster. That brings me to "common sense gun control." I agree with you that not everyone may be ready to own a gun. However, it is a right within our constitution as has been decided by the supreme court of our country. Second on this, is that it is a Pandora's box, there is no closing it. Cops are not indiscriminately out there shooting African Americans, that's not exactly how it works (though there is a lot of prejudice weather intentional or not that is causing the problem you have seen. I was at the protests in Ferguson, where the major coverage that you probably saw happened. What happened later that night was not civil disobedience with a purpose, it was destruction of other peoples lively hood, people whom were also there supporting the protesters and were in the very community so affected. I spent the early years of my life in a major city impoverished area and spent my early 20's in a very very bad area of a particularly famous city, it is not like what you see on TV it is not like the movies, Violence is not controlled and innocents are often the biggest victims. I will be happy to give in my weapons when i know that those whom do fire indiscriminately drop theirs.
2. ISIS- is a military force fighting a gorilla war against forces of countries that are woefully under trained nor equipped for the type of war they are fighting. Isis is well funded from behind the scenes by some one and the powers that be in the western world will not risk another full scale engagement in ME because literally every engagement there since the 50's has produced nothing but further issues, major failures in foreign policy of the entire west and Russia for that matter. Thing is we can't equip and train one faction of said forces in the middle east because it then gives rise to another guerrilla element which then simply fills the power vacuum. The Kurds may have been worth backing and probably still are, but then what? the ME and the world for that matter has not been at true peace since roughly 2500 BCE.......It is an endless waltz my friend. If you are prepared to assist in fighting ISIS I am more than happy to pack up my weapons and find my way to Syria with you and I will fight by your side.
3. Yes, social media only serves to heighten tensions and raise emotions to boiling points. What we need to be asking ourselves is why? If we are going to choose to openly air our opinions why can there be no civil discourse, why must emotion, passion and anger be the responses. Is it a psychological impulse that when we enter our opinions and views into a social setting online that they must be validated for us to not grow angry, being a non user with the exception of professional connections on LinkedIn and posting here it is something I do not understand.
That last thing I ask you to consider, and perhaps others here can chime in on this peacefully. There are many in this community who have seen combat, I have not nor can i imagine the impact it has besides what it has done to my father. I have however seen the violence on the streets. I have seen people die, I have had the experience of sitting next to a young man no older than 17 trying to stop the bleeding from a wound inflicted in a drive by waiting for an ambulance to arrive, he later died. So I respectfully ask, have you seen this type of violence first hand? I know I don't want to see anymore nor do I want others to experience it. When you call for aggressive uprising you must understand that it is little more than a call to war. I personally sit here because if you want the change to happen burning down the system will not work it will only be replaced with similar chains made of different materials. A true strategy needs to be formed and a populace must be united to achieve this, something if you observe the powers at hand are trying very hard to stop from happening. It is my hopes that the better nature of humanity prevails but we are simply an evolution of tribal primates and that unfortunately this violence will occur in my life time, so I sit and wait for what my role in it will be and when that shall be revealed.
Much respect and Peace,
Tim
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