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Thread #20785   Message #219282
Posted By: M. Ted (inactive)
27-Apr-00 - 09:31 PM
Thread Name: The gun debate. IN SONG.
Subject: RE: The gun debate. IN SONG.
Well Shambles, I think your song is a bit juvenile, and also rather insulting--the fact that is is in verse, as part of a song, really doesn't justify it--Alexander Pope and Oscar Wilde were notorious for expressing similar sentiments,, but they did it with wit and drollness--

This particularly is, well galling--"If you want to be free and quote the Constitution, The best place for you is in an institution"--though in truth, the awkward earnestness of the statement reflects more on you than on anyone else--

You know how important that can be--

At any rate--I said it to McGrath, and I'll say it to you--you don't know the first thing about life here--all you know about are news headlines--and those are dictated more by what politicians think will make their opponents look bad, than by what is really going on--

Americans know how to filter out the spin, and how to recognize the political bias in these news events--something that many outsiders have yet to learn how to do--

In truth, violence and violent crimes (as well as crimes in general) have been in steady decline here, for a number of years--

With all the fuss that is made about the epidemic of "kids murdering kids", it turns out that the actual number of these deaths last year in the US, is less than the number of people who drowned in their own bathwater during the same time period--