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<blockquote data-quote="wkmac" data-source="post: 945440" data-attributes="member: 2189">The fixation with guns IMO is driven by American mythology and the warfare state.&nbsp; I mean between production runs filling gov&#039;t contracts, to keep profitability up, civilian versions of the gov&#039;t issue weapons.&nbsp; Even when Congress passed the so-called assault weapons ban, what really that was about was the fact that patent deadlines were ending and thus anybody and their brother could start making &quot;assault&quot; weapons which would draw purchases away from gov&#039;t contract gun makers and their civilian versions.&nbsp; The assault weapons ban was about protecting markets and replacing old patent domination with new patent domination and now the assault weapons are being produced but on the latest platform with patent protections.&nbsp; The same reason that planes replaced trains and the cruiseliner and ocean transport business has exploded.&nbsp; I mean what do airplane factories and shipyards build in between gov&#039;t contracts?All that said, if the guns weren&#039;t available, a kid hell bent on going out in a blaze of glory would result to what?&nbsp; Can you say BOOM!&nbsp; And the numbers of dead and injuried would go up even greater that it is with guns.&nbsp; But then you never question the mental mind destruction that the school system inflicts on these kids to begin with so IMO the root cause is not guns or bombs but the educational structure itself.&nbsp; As the song sez, &quot;We Don&#039;t Need No Education!&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="wkmac, post: 945440, member: 2189"] The fixation with guns IMO is driven by American mythology and the warfare state. I mean between production runs filling gov't contracts, to keep profitability up, civilian versions of the gov't issue weapons. Even when Congress passed the so-called assault weapons ban, what really that was about was the fact that patent deadlines were ending and thus anybody and their brother could start making "assault" weapons which would draw purchases away from gov't contract gun makers and their civilian versions. The assault weapons ban was about protecting markets and replacing old patent domination with new patent domination and now the assault weapons are being produced but on the latest platform with patent protections. The same reason that planes replaced trains and the cruiseliner and ocean transport business has exploded. I mean what do airplane factories and shipyards build in between gov't contracts? All that said, if the guns weren't available, a kid hell bent on going out in a blaze of glory would result to what? Can you say BOOM! And the numbers of dead and injuried would go up even greater that it is with guns. But then you never question the mental mind destruction that the school system inflicts on these kids to begin with so IMO the root cause is not guns or bombs but the educational structure itself. As the song sez, "We Don't Need No Education!" [/QUOTE]

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