If you can't fix this by taking semi-automatics out of the hands of the public then you shouldn't complain about human sacrifice by the Aztecs or Mayans. They never dreamed of committing 35,000 souls to the God of Transportation (auto "accidents") nor another 30,000 to the God of the gun, per year. That's a year, the Aztecs killed one a day to make sure their sun rose in the morning. I thank our superstitions are just as silly when it comes to invisible hands and the right to carry deadly force on your hip into a church or a school. In our society, if you killed for any reason, your clan owed a life. Anything could be mitigated with a payment except for the loss of a life. It didn't matter whether you meant to kill or not. The only exception was to protect yourself from a killer, otherwise you mother's family owed a life. Any life. Male, female, child, teenager, Elder, etc. There was very little crime under the old laws. Clans policed themselves. They valued their members. Right now I will not travel or spend money with companies in states that have laws allowing ordinary citizens to carry weapons in public. I won't go there. I won't visit relatives there and I certainly won't do business with them. As for Bill Bennett? He was Reagan's Secretary of Education and wrote a book about virtue. What a joke.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/16/bill-bennett-education-secretary-co nnecticut-shooting_n_2311774.html REH From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Keith Hudson Sent: Monday, December 17, 2012 3:28 PM To: RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, , EDUCATION Subject: [Futurework] Send not for whom the Bell tolls Speaking at Newtown about the massacre of 26 at the school there, President Obama said that we should not be powerless in preventing other tragedies. Unfortunately, we have to be. Such killings have already been going on in the past in many countries and will continue to do so. And if they don't take place with guns, they'll take place with knives and if not with knives by explosives made from bog-standard agricultural fertilizer. My own moral criterion when considering any unusual behaviour in modern times is whether anything similar has ever been observed and described by travellers and anthropologists in the last 500 years or so. I didn't need to apply it in this case, of course; my response was instinctive. But in Newtown's case also there has never been anything remotely similar having taken place in hunter-gatherer society, The crucial difference is that in hunter-gatherer society no-one could ever have been a loner. In today's society, we have increasing numbers of young people who, while mentally sane diagnostically, are deeply alienated from those around them. In today's consumerist society we've thrown the birth-community out with the bathwater. Keith
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