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This is not a tragedy. A tragedy is an accident. This was a calculated, premeditated plan by someone who clearly is just a sadist and has no regard for human life.
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What about unarmed school kids?
Well, Don't blame the NRA. I am not a member of the NRA, and I don't own a gun. But blaming the NRA is pointless. While they are contributors to the Republican campaigns, they don't have the political clout that many people think they have. Planned Barrenhood contributes much more to politics than the NRA.
Manners.Really? Because the students were not killing each other when my dad was in high school, even though they had the tools. What changed?
The United States has the highest homicide rate of all industrialized nations. The United States has least strict gun control laws of all industrialized nations. Louisiana has the most permissive gun control laws in the USA and the highest homicide rate of any state.People will always want to kill people, no matter the time period. The question is how do we keep it low?
Then fix the people. It's not the guns fault the ammo explodes.How are all these nut jobs (or rather people with evil hearts) able to get these guns? Are they just lying around waiting to be picked up? Just upholding the second amendment is not going to make these shootings go away. I agree, we need better law enforcement and mental health facilities. But we also need to keep out of these people's hands weapons that can be easily converted into semi-automatics.
Guns are never more important than people.
That is a hysterical, emotional response which does not address anything I said. Please tell me what I said which made you think I wanted more kids or people in general to die? I asked for a reasoned response and I get left wing propaganda. You evidently do not know what you are talking about. A semi-automatic fires one bullet each time the trigger is pulled. I'm not sure but I think you meant "converted to full automatic." Which fires continuously until the trigger is released.Do you want more kids to die? Do you want more people in general to die? Then enforce background checks before every purpose, and do not sell weapons that can easily be converted into semi-automatics.
Pretty much. Well, the culture, is what I would say. The same generation that gave us free love also gave us no fault divorce. Then, being the peaceniks there were, raised a culture of mass murderers. The overwhelming majority of these high school gunmen are boys who had little to no father presence in their upbringings. The income of a neighborhood is not a reliable predictor of violent crime. The incidence of single mother homes is.Manners.
Never mind the fact that several of these shootings involved kids using their parent's guns. "Don't spank the good guys," but when guns owned by the good guys wind up in the hands of bad guys what are we supposed to do?Yes I hear myself and my heart goes out to them. But you don't spank the good guys because some nut job took advantage.
That is a sad truth and they need to be kept locked and accessible to children.Never mind the fact that several of these shootings involved kids using their parent's guns. "Don't spank the good guys," but when guns owned by the good guys wind up in the hands of bad guys what are we supposed to do?
That is a sad truth and they need to be kept locked and accessible to children.
I am sorry I meant InaccessibleThat is a sad truth and they need to be kept locked and accessible to children.
The United States has the highest homicide rate of all industrialized nations. The United States has least strict gun control laws of all industrialized nations. Louisiana has the most permissive gun control laws in the USA and the highest homicide rate of any state.
Britain banned semi-auto guns. Australia banned semi-auto guns.
Germany requires gun permits for all gun owners. No permit, no legal right to own a gun. They do background checks on everyone requesting a gun permit and have a one year waiting period.
The US should have universal background checks, gun permits and ban semi-automatic guns.
People who own guns are more likely to die of gunshot wounds than people who do not own guns.
You still are not addressing the problem of mentality.That is a sad truth and they need to be kept locked and not accessible to children.
The United States has the highest homicide rate of all industrialized nations. The United States has least strict gun control laws of all industrialized nations. Louisiana has the most permissive gun control laws in the USA and the highest homicide rate of any state.begin
I know plenty of Christians and some of them own plenty of guns. One actually used to own a gun shop, yet none of them have gone off the handle. In fact I am 26 have lived in this same county my whole life and I can only remember ONE shooting ( I think it was a shooting) that happened a few years back. We are in GA so this county has been here over 200 YEARS and do you know during that time we have had ONE police officer shot and killed. That was 8-5-95 and the ONLY reason I know that is because I looked him up on the website that tracks fallen law enforcement officers. It is NT the guns.I don't know what the solution is. Seriously. I don't give jack about politics. But I do care about how Christians now tend to idolize guns. For every 100 people, there are 88 guns within the United States. (Mccarthy, Beckett, & Glenza, 2017) It is estimated there are about 265 million guns in U.S. citizen hands. These numbers might seem outlandish, but this is largely because roughly half of these guns are owned by a mere 3 percent of the population.
thank youThe solutions isn't to make the good guys suffer. Arm the teachers with guns and turn schools from being "soft targets"
That is a sad truth and they need to be kept locked and inaccessible to children.
Sounds to me that that is on the authorities you cannot blame the guns for that.Kid used a sawed off shotgun, which is already illegal. Same school had a school shooting threat called in to police a couple of months ago, supposedly regarding this same kid. What exactly are you wanting?
You are right and as I have stated before, Kids must be taught from the beginning what guns are used for. I was raised with em, We killed things and we ate them, I knew it killed when something needed dispatched like a chicken or a hog or a coyote in the hen house or a bear.You still are not addressing the problem of mentality.
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