{"id":14083,"date":"2017-08-30T11:49:21","date_gmt":"2017-08-30T15:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/?p=14083"},"modified":"2017-08-30T11:49:21","modified_gmt":"2017-08-30T15:49:21","slug":"how-to-end-the-scourge-of-gun-violence-open-dialogue-opinion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2017\/08\/how-to-end-the-scourge-of-gun-violence-open-dialogue-opinion\/","title":{"rendered":"How to end the scourge of gun violence? Open dialogue (Opinion)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Regulations won’t stop the violence. Gun violence has little to do with law, and much to do with mental well being. Discontentment, stress, and pressures of our polarized society, leave little room for individuals who don’t quite fit the norm, pushing them instead to the fringe of society, where things get very lonely and confused.
\nWe are going out of out way to push the boundaries of mental wellness, embracing life on the edge of sanity, as our culture is assailed by continuous, rapid change in the well-connected modern world the we live. For many people, it’s simply too much, and when they reach their breaking point, anything can happen.
\nAmerica’s gun problem has little to do with guns, and everything to do with people feeling hopeless, useless and deserted by our leaders and the rest of society, looking for answers and finding only pain. It’s a societal sickness that will not be healed by removing some of the guns. Other tools of destruction will be found…cars, knives, bombs…people get pretty creative when they have nothing to think about except how miserable they are.
\nIt’s time to deal with the misery. It’s time to mend the hearts and minds of Americans, and force our Government to serve All the People, and not just the elite.
\n#GunViolence is just one form of violence. All violence comes from the same places…mostly desperation and angst…for normal people, sociopaths aside, thanks. To end ALL violence…that should be our goal…violence needs no weapon to be destructive.<\/p>\n

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Regulations won’t stop the violence. Gun violence has little to do with law, and much to do with mental well being. Discontentment, stress, and pressures of our polarized society, leave little room for individuals who don’t quite fit the norm, pushing them instead to the fringe of society, where things get very lonely and confused. 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