Letting Kids Shoot Guns Is Good for Them--TIME magazine, Aug. 28, 2014

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92. I speak in general terms

--don't take it personally. This is a forum where we can't really know each other, can't even see each other.
We speak our minds always with the idea that it's a platform for group consumption of opinions and ideas (some would say group therapy, ha ha). I speak to all who care to read the thread.

So it's the plural "you"--not the singular "you"--that I'm addressing. I don't single out people around here.

"I got mine" is an attitude I see every day in this country. People who have their heads in the sand about the reality of our dysfunction as a society. People who are just fine with the struggle the poor to average person goes through in America, and oppose any criticism of the failures of the system. Because they live in the illusion that it's functioning well. That illusion could blow apart in a second. We live in perilous times.

So please cool your over-reactive jets. We are both on the same side and the cause is truly big--huge, in fact. We must radically change as a nation if Democracy is to survive here. And that includes looking at the proliferation of unregulated guns as a public health problem (my area of interest being public health that's the way I see it--from a physical and psychological standpoint. Re gun violence--Houston, we have a problem). The degree to which people are arming themselves is an indicator of a failure of society--just one of many indicators IMO.

In. My. Opinion.