Responsibility #38

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continue to discuss the proposition that the USA <B>"do all </B><B>that it can to limit and control the production, distribution, </B><B>sale, and use of products and services that are subversive to the life, health, and happiness of citizens and residents of our nation".</B>  Remedies for tobacco and drugs were outlined in the last paper.  Also begun was a discussion of how to alleviate or eliminate alcohol abuse.</div> <bR> <div>      Measures required to fight alcohol abuse:</div> <bR> <div> 1) Encourage teetotaling by limiting or precluding encouragement of the population to drink, particularly minors.</div> <div> 2) All advertising and promotion of drinking be against the law.</div> <div> 3) No visible displays.</div> <div> 4) Packaging be utilitarian and drab.</div> <div> 5) Distribution outlets be reduced as demand decreases.</div> <div> 6) Retail package purchases be accompanied by notification that excessive use and intoxication is harmful, and is considered subversive.  Drinking in bars, restaurants, and other commercial or non-commercial establishments be required to be in moderation.  In the latter case such messages be prominently displayed, and repeated orally as necessary.  </div> <div> 7) All media be precluded from including material which would encourage excessive use or intoxication, in any new movies, programs, or pictures.  Any previously produced films (etc.) be purged of this encouragement to the extent economically feasible.</div> <div> 8) Health and physical fitness courses in schools emphasize the health hazards and subversiveness.</div> <div> 9) All costs attributed to alcohol use be passed to users.</div> <div> 10)Managers (or responsible persons), in establishments in 6. above, be required to withhold purchases of customers or users who appear to have had too much to drink.  If the person appears to be intoxicated, the onus be on the establishment to timely call authorities to have a sobriety test accomplished.  Failure to meet this responsibility could result in loss of license, plus civil or criminal prosecutions, due to subsequent actions of the inebriate.  The public be encouraged to immediately report persons who appear to be impaired by alcohol, so that a test may be imposed for the good of the possible inebriate and the public. </div> <div> 11)Persons found by the tests to have drunk too much be appropriately sent or escorted home.  If legally drunk: car or car keys be impounded, they be required to "sleep it off" in a cell, and their incident be recorded.  The inebriate be held responsible for all costs.  Like driving experiences, when (say) three or more of these tickets (which have involved no criminal results) indicate the lack of will for corrective behavior, the person be subjected to 12. below. </div> <div> 12)Alcohol abusers voluntarily, or if arrested and convicted, be "sentenced" to Adult Discipline Assurance Schools. There their addiction be treated, and they be appropriately prepared for the duties of citizenship.  The costs of attendance at the ADAS be borne by the  abuser in accordance with his ability to pay.</div> <div> 13)Special courts be designated to timely hear requests for imposition of sobriety tests by industries, businesses, government departments, etc.  Decisions be based on the general welfare.</div> <div>      Perhaps the most ludicrous, self-indulgent, and unnecessary health hazard permitted by our nation is the possession and use of guns.  Every minute of every day across our nation We the People are suffering tragedies, most of which last the lifetimes of one or more persons, due to the irresponsible availability of firearms.</div> <div>   </div> <div>      It is ludicrous because the argument, for unregulated possession of guns, is based upon the misinterpretation of the passe Amendment Article II to the Constitution.  Advocates of no gun control quote only the last half of this second article of the Bill of Rights; i.e., <I>"the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed".</I>  They purposely ignore the first part of the sentence which originally justified the latter; i.e., <I>"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State,".</I>  </div> <div>      For over a hundred years America has lacked a frontier with threatening "savages", who had to be countered by citizen borne firearms.  For most of the twentieth century, our nation has had active armed services, organized reserves and national guards, adequately armed by the federal and state governments to provide <I>"the security of a free State"</I> against the threat of other nations.</div> <bR> <div>      So any relevance of <I>"the RIGHT .... to keep and bear arms"</I> at best comes down to the internal security of our country against crime.  At this point in time, the advocates of the ready availability of guns can argue that our police forces, FBI, etc., are unable to adequately protect our populace from the ravages of armed criminals.  So we have the classic chicken and egg enigma. Guns breed crime, and crime breeds guns.  Which comes first, the amelioration or end of crime, or the control and riddance of guns?  Neither!  We must attack both vigorously at the same time, which is NOW!</div> <div>      Would that it were, that the quandary before our nation, was limited to the weighing of the determent and protection afforded armed citizens, versus the consequences of the brandishing of their firearms during the commission of crimes.  But no, by far the price paid by society for the ready availability of guns is the generation therewith of accidents and crimes.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00a800f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Toddlers through teenagers are blowing themselves and playmates away with guns not kept out of reach.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00a800f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Children (and adults) are killing and maiming themselves playing Russian roulette.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00a800f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">The sinew of existence of most juvenile and young adult gangs is the possession and use of guns.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00a800f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Children and adults are being wounded and killed in their homes,on the streets, in parking lots, on the freeways, by driveby shootings.  The gunfire is both gang and non-gang related, random and targeted.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00a800f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Disgruntled employees and angry spouses quickly buy or readily retrieve firearms; invade schools, restaurants, post offices, department stores, et al; and vent their unhappiness by firing at anyone in sight, resulting in massacres.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00a800f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Spouses are killing spouses in their homes, mistaking them for criminals invading their homes.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00a800f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Suicides are being abetted or accelerated by the ready availability of guns.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00a800f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Crimes (murders, rapes, robberies, etc.) are committed, that would be deterred, if some weapon other than a gun had to be utilized. </div> <div>      The discussion on guns is not finished.</div> <div>                Publius IV</div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id72.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Responsibility 39"><U>Responsibility #39</U></A></div> <div> Back to: <A HREF="id33.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Responsibility Contents"><U>Responsibility Contents</U></A></div> </td> </tr></table></body>