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Brady pledge against student gun violence
"National distribution of the Student Pledge sends a message that is essential if we are to reverse the tide of violence in this country: that violence is neither inevitable nor an abstract force against which we are powerless." Gad, what meaningless words. "Distribution" of a piece of paper "sends a message" (I'd hope so, unless it were blank) that is "essential" (hardly) if we are to "reverse the tide of violence."
Apart from the consideration that a person who is not deterred by the thought of life in prison is not likely to be deterred by the thought of breaking a promise, the pledge only says that the signer will not "use a gun to settle a personal problem or dispute." Apparently the Campaign is perfectly OK with the signer using a knife, club, or fists to settle a "personal problem," which means it is hardly aimed at "violence."
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it ought to be blank.
Smacks of Nancy's "Just Say No" program. Good thing, too, because I couldn't find "illegal dope" if I tried!
To their credit, they didn't merely say "I will never use a gun" but added to that "to settle a personal problem or dispute."
I must ask, is an armed home burglary/invasion classified as a "personal problem" or "dispute?" I would tend to think not.
Carl, I had the same thought. Perhaps they deem it appropriate as a tool of commerce?
I've been saying for awhile that the Brady's and their ilk don't care if you're murdered or raped or commit suicide, as long as it's not done with a gun.
I have to wonder if they are going to make all high school students sign the thing? What about those students that refuse?
More importantly, what are they going to do when when of their pleges is arrested for robbing, attacking, murdering, raping, fill in the blank crime?
Sure seems they are missing a lot of "students" out there. . .
Oh, and what about those students that "drop out" or are in jail when they have the "pledge drive?"
This thing illustrates the naivete of the gun control bunch. However, given that the purpose of this pledge is not to actually prevent violence, but to reinforce the PC doctrine of the "wrongness of force," doctrine, it should be no surprise.
Frauds.