HunterCA
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I was pretty sure that would be you're response. Intellectual escapism. Let others post ideas you can criticize. Don't ever post a personal thought. By god you're class act. You wriggle out of offering any ideas by accusing your opponent himself of wriggling! And yet, I offer ideas all the time on threads and you say, nup, I won't cast pearls before swine. Peon, it's your style. Why do you feel shamed by it? It's what you do. Strewth. OK then. How about this: I put out an idea for political change that might help prevent such atrocities in the future. If you disagree, which of course is your privilege, you suggest your own idea. Deal? Assuming 'yes, it's a deal' and moving past the elephant in the room, the matter of guns: this atrocity is front page news here in Britain. We're all becoming somewhat acquainted with aspects of culture in that particular part of the USA about which we'd only been hazily aware before. One of those aspects is that the state is still steeped in reminders of slave-owning days. The confederate flag still flies over the capitol. It wasn't lowered to half mast, as apparently is usual when there's a tragedy that affects the whole state. Streets are named after confederate generals. So I would move to change such things. But - and here we get to another reason why I asked you for *your* solutions - I know little about the culture of the state in question. I'm not even American. So perhaps you could enlighten me with your superior knowledge? I'll wait until you post an idea of your own. I agree guns are not going to be in this thread. Yet, I'd point out that the last sort of thing like this to happen, a black church in the south attacked and people killed that got a lot of news, was blown up by a bomb. I'm not sure, well am am sure, that on a planet with a few billion people you're ever going to stop this sort of thing and I'm certainly not willing to give the government more power out of fear that it may happen again. It will happen again despite how much power the government has. Please look to previous posts where similar incidents happen in China with a very strong government. I suggest we allow those people to mourn, as man has done forever and will continue to do without making it a political issue. The mayor of Carleton is on your side of the gun debate, and presumably, although I haven't researched it, a lefty and more politically attuned to you. http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/shaken-charleston-mayor-far-too-many-guns-out-there/2015/06/18/8e59c9dc-15b6-11e5-89f3-61410da94eb1_story.html The govenor of the state is conservative, but a child of an immigrant family from India. So, I doubt he can be defined as a historically white racist. This whole country is steeped in slavery from the past and will continue to be so until we stop making that an excuse in the black community. I might add, that that part of the country we obtained from the French and also has a very heavy French cultural over tone. It used to be a major port for the importation of slaves and does have added portent toward slavery in that regard. Why flags are not at half mast is something the liberal mayor might answer, or the immigrant family India roots governor might answer, but if you're implying it's because things are run by conservative white racist you'll have to look elsewhere. Usually, in California, we do it for things such as this. As to the confederate flag, there is much discussion here about that. Many blacks feel it symbolizes slavery. Of course, to them slavery was the major issue of our civil war. To many others, slavery was not the major issue in the civil war until Lincoln made it so in order to spur northern men to accept the draft he instituted to fight the war already in progress. You might note that the civil war didn't even free all of the slaves. There were several states that did not join the confederacy which maintained slaves with the consent of the north after Lincoln's emancipation of the slaves in the confederacy.
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