Hmmm…1963 to 1969. That was the period in which the counterculture revolution, with it’s concomitant drug use and skyrocketing criminality, took root and flourished, yes, no?
Still, that cite proves nothing other than that lots of people own guns and use 'em to kill people more than with other weapons. Is there anyone bright enough to be reading this board who didn’t already know this?
And yes, guns are primarily the weapons used in cop killings. And by whom exactly are cops being killed? Yep, criminals! The very same people who will be the only ones who have guns once the government manages to make them illegal. I haven’t heard a single peep anywhere from the liberatti as to just how they intend to keep illegal guns out of the hands of criminals, and I’ve said many times that I’d be more amenable to gun control should a believably effective plan be put forth as to how to achieve this. But crickets is all I hear, and you know why? Because there is no way to make sure criminals won’t have guns once they’ve been been made illegal. “When guns are outlawed only outlaws will have guns” may be something liberals like to mock just like they like to mock ‘Won’t somebody think of the children’ but both are valid concerns among those nor enmeshed in the allure of the drugs, sex and rock n’ roll lifestyle.
Any cop will tell you that cooperation from the public is the only reason laws are obeyed, that if everyone in society decided all at once to start ignoring stop signs and traffic lights and began robbing each other, the police would be utterly powerless to stop it. The fact that our society is as orderly and safe as it is, is the result of society as a whole accepting the benefit of certain ways of behaving and adhering to those standards. And to the degree they do everyone else follows suit, usually without even thinking about it. That is how society in this country used to be. People behaved because everyone else did. (And spare me the rare exception that proves nothing.) People obeyed the law because that’s what people did. They coped with adversity because that’s what people did. They disciplined their children and made sure they behaved and hopefully did well in school because that’s what people did. And they didn’t shoot up schools because that’s not what people did.
Now it’s like half the country has decided they no longer have to obey the rules of the road and the chaos that life in the U.S. has become is the result of that. Kids can’t be disciplined by either their parents or their schools, drugs are everywhere, 7-11s sell women’s magazines in plain view whose covers extoll the proper way to give blowjobs, everybody in the country is a victim, which is no surprise since victimhood serves both as an excuse for a crappily lived life and to bestow undeserved moral superiority. It’s like a Get Out Of Jail Free card for responsibility. And with victimhood comes an inability to cope with the fact that things happen in life that you don’t like or that make you feel bad about yourself and you come to feel the whole world is against you. So you become a ne’er do well living in your parents’ basement playing video games all day or you go shoot up a school.
The fabric of society was as it was in the 50s and 60s because it had evolved that way organically and stood the test of time. It had its problems and its flaws but nothing is perfect and it served to keep everyone on the same page and society functioning smoothly. And now the peace and love that the counterculture crowd foolishly foresaw has turned into a seething mass of divisiveness and groups that hate each other for having ‘victimized’ someone with everyone jostling to out-virtue signal each other and find some way to call everyone else an asshole.
This country is a fucking mess, and like I said upthread, it’s not only gonna get worse it’s going to get a hell of a lot worse before society finally comes to the realization that a society ruled by whim, shortsightedness, irresponsibility, anger and alienation cannot hold together and begins acting like grown ups again.
