Posts by Sacha
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Hard News: Cultures and violence, in reply to Megan Wegan,
let's use that to do a better job of raising them, and explaining hyper-masculine culture
Seems to me you are both in agreement about that.
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Hard News: Cultures and violence, in reply to BenWilson,
called the police
socialist
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Hard News: Cultures and violence, in reply to James Bremner,
juducious
those martial arts again
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Hard News: Cultures and violence, in reply to Konrad Kurta,
abortion as the driving factor behind the drop in violent crime
and the unrelated baby-boom blip that also fed NZ's similar drop since the 90s
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Hard News: Cultures and violence, in reply to Ana Simkiss,
sure smells like Scalia
quite, where "well-regulated" means not all all.
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Hard News: Cultures and violence, in reply to Graeme Edgeler,
then US sources are mis-quoting their own constitutional documents
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Hard News: Cultures and violence, in reply to Bart Janssen,
allows me to reach the top shelf
that's just height, dude :)
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Hard News: Cultures and violence, in reply to BenWilson,
training
Balancing out the technical ability to use weapons with the deep restraint and ethics that have been part of warrior training throughout history would help. Harder and less likely than just banning military weapons in private hands.
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Hard News: Public Address Word of the…, in reply to Ross Mason,
or hippie :)
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Hard News: Cultures and violence, in reply to Sacha,
A Guardian article expands on my point.
At the heart of the issue has been a deliberate effort by the gun lobby and the US right, beginning in earnest in the mid-1970s, to redefine the second amendment of the US constitution and recast a provision designed to provide collective defence in the shape of "well-regulated" militias as a modern and absolute individual right.
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For most outside observers the answer to America's gun problem appears self-evident. It needs to begin with a reinstatement of the ban on ownership of military assault weapons that have no business being in private hands.