Re: columbine
James J Rovira (jrovira@juno.com)
Thu, 22 Apr 1999 18:00:53 -0400 (EDT)
I love reading your posts, Julia, and your Italian comes through
wonderfully in your English. Keep posting :)
There's no explaining it, really, other than the fact that one thing the
US suffers from more than many other countries is terminal diversity.
We're standing on feet of iron mixed with clay, and the smallest rock can
make us collapse at times. Racial tension is just below the surface in
many of our cities.
We're also affluent without a universally held set of values, and we have
problems with our impulses. Anger management is a serious issue here.
We don't have set, acceptable ways to express it.
Matthew--
Guns aren't the problem here, in my opinion. I hate to say this, but
more than the dollar or the vote the bullet is the fundamental unit of
political power. He who holds all the bullets and the means of procuring
them holds all the power. The right to bear arms was not intended to
protect the public from outside invasion, but from its own government,
allowing for the possibility of a future revolution should the current US
government descend into tyranny.
Jim
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