Hi all,
While I agree with the problems with "fear porn" we should recognise that
the media generated fear pron has been exported around the world but
America's ridiculous gun laws fortunately have not. As a result countries
like Australia that have plenty of fear porn without the ridiculous gun
laws have far fewer deaths by shooting (I'm not just talking about mass
killings here either!) than the USA. Also the amount of shootings dropped
dramatically in the late nineties when the gun laws were significantly
tightened followed by a massive government buyback of automatic weapons
from citizens. i wish good luck with al systemic forces behind you to
anyone trying to improve the gun laws in the USA
Cheers
Chris Walsh
Melbourne, Australia
ph +61 (0)3 9487 4647
www.cwalsh.com.au
On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 2:49 AM, anngwyn@xxxxxxx [ConstellationTalk] <
ConstellationTalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello Everyone,
While I am all for peace and not so fond of guns, from a systemic
perspective, guns are not the problem...only the symptom of the
problem...We have always had guns in this country....and as a social
traumatologist, more problematic is the trans-national epidemic of
state-sponsored, media generated "fear porn " designed to promote and
accelerate " fear of the other "....and this inevitably leads to all manner
of violence as history as proven over and again. Confusing the symptom with
the problem is likely to lead only to more confusion. We might ask: Who or
what benefits from this current fear mongering epidemic that seeks to
exploit the darker aspects of tribal consciousness ?
I addressed this "fear porn " in my blog " Trauma and the Human Condition
" http://anngwyn.wisrville.org as "Our Year of Fear ". which may be of
interest....
Warm regards
Anngwyn St. Just Ph.D.
http://anngwyn.wisrville.org
www.acst-international.com
