Originally Posted by link

I guess this is a chicken and egg kind of debate. Clearly there is a vast culture of gun worship in this country. If i implied that is not the case, i apologize. All the same, the laws are weak and out of touch with the needs of our country and there is a huge and well-funded industry that does everything in its power to keep it that way.



I might be misunderstanding what you are getting at but your comment comes across as a red herring. Discipline in the general sense has nothing to do with anything, and you know it. Young and impressionable people begin their indoctrination into the worship of guns as soon as they are put in front of any form of entertainment.

Education is a good thing and wrt gun use, education is lacking. Our schools should teach children how many people are murdered and maimed each and every day in the USA due to gun violence. People who have been shot and lived through it should be paid to visit schools so they can explain to students and staff how they were shot while sitting in their home, or walking down the street, or at a restaurant, or you name it. People who were shot and murdered should be visited in the morgue by school children so they can see exactly what a guns do. Subject the young of our country to this kind of thing every month of the school year. By the time young people are able to vote they will have a real education of how much damage firearms do. An educated society will change the course of firearm use, IMO. But of course, none of this is done and firearms continue to be glorified.