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Oh come on, you people. A mere 15+ lives were lost in this school shooting. That amount of people die, what, every day Elsewhere due to other causes? What attention do we give those deaths? And what about the situation in Kosovo? Yes, the situation CNN and all the other news sources have practically stopped providing coverage on. 15 deaths occur there daily! But the American public has all but forgotten about it; it was "Last Month's Flavour of the Month". Well, I hope I haven't offended anyone here.
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Yeah, a cavalier attitude like that is just the way to end the culture of violence in the US. Damn, people die all the time. Oh well, 15 people were just blown away just down the street from me. Time to move on and increase my personal weapons cache.
Offened, no. Saddened, yes.
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Jeff Raven: I believe you have missed my point about the native americans. The native americans were among the first to experience ethnic cleansing. Ethnic cleansing is not done in intermarriage or assimilation. Both carry some aspect of the culture forward. Witness the Catholic rituals in Mexico-a little native american, a little Spanish. We are one of the most violent countries in the world. To cite an example-5 of the 10 most dangerous cites in the world are in the US (a report published last year).
Not every person is violent. My mother is not violent, Mother Teresa was not violent. Either you are aware that you are violent or you are not aware.
As for the war in Kosovo, the war is lost. The leaders couldn't agree on a single policy-Clausewitz strategy, Powell strategy (after General Colin Powell-ex. Gulf War), parallel war. I don't blame Pres. Clinton, though I do believe he has hurt Vice Pre. Gore.
However, I will say this about my country. I am happy that we have moved past the days when blacks were rounded up, burned alive, and the white spectators took the charred skin home as a souvenor. Compared to this, the Colorada shootings are a minor act of violence.
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Yes, naturally there are guns and murders in other countries, but we cannot deny that America has a serious problem...in Europe where there are stricter gun laws there are less killings...in a few years back America had 10,000 deaths from handguns, and seeing as how France is about one fifth the size they should have about 2,000, then, but they only had 10 deaths from handguns. But, handguns aren't the only problem, certainly. I still believe that the problem lies in the fact that America doesn't have the community cohesion that other nations like in Europe have and people are more isolated and perhaps aren't raised as much to care about the lives of those within their community...that's where we should reform.
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Oh my my my my.....I'm glad this is the flame board.
First of all, ethnic cleansing has been going on since the dawn of civilization. Read Genesis 34. Complete and utter destruction of a tribe. does that not count as genecide?
Second, People, as a society, are violent. I did not say individuals. Any socialogist will tell you that people act quite differently in groups than by themselves.
Third, the atrocities of Europeans vs. Native Americans are no worse than the Germans vs. the Jews, or even Stalin vs. his own people. I think I've proved my point.
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Blondie: Good point. US does lack community cohesion, which was one of my earlier points. We're so diverse, we can barely stick together without falling apart.
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