tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post6256087810502491227..comments2024-03-28T11:33:16.271-05:00Comments on Adventus: Just when you think you've hit the bottomUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post-57156717892891508952015-10-07T23:26:34.659-05:002015-10-07T23:26:34.659-05:00Jindal is certainly wrong in disparaging the role ...Jindal is certainly wrong in disparaging the role that gun control can play. But I think he's certainly right that there are other factors at play in creating such a large number of violent, disturbed and alienated young men, and that the wholesale abandonment of marriage and wives and children surely has had some role in their loneliness and lack of direction.<br /><br />My own suspicion is that Marx was right, that the great destroyer of the family is the all-devouring "free market," and that the sexual revolution was less an outburst of enlightenment than a commodification of sex, a substitution of consumerist values of choice and satisfaction over the old sacral order that has now become almost unintelligible.<br /><br />I doubt that Jindal sees it quite that way. I am of course all for the usual gun control measures, strict background checks, limits on firepower, etc. I take what I would consider an "originalist" stance on the second amendment--premising the right on a well-regulated militia entails a right to regulate and a responsibility. But the Supreme Court has of course said otherwise.<br /><br />It's odd, I think, that whereas, on most crime issues, Democrats talk about root causes--poverty and unemployment--and Republicans talk about tougher laws and punishment, but when it comes to guns, the opposite seems to happen. I don't know when any of that got to be an either/or. Surely both seem to need addressing. Not that I know how, of course. The best I can do is Livy: We can neither bear our vices, nor bear their remedies. rick allenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07612435616018593956noreply@blogger.com