Yawn.
So what’s new? More people dead? More crazy people with guns causing mass destruction?
Yeah, so? Happens every few months here in the gun-loving United States of America. We used to be shocked by these things and vow to do something about it, but that was then.
We couldn’t even get a law passed that said there should be background checks when 90% of Americans agreed with it after a horrific shooting that left many innocent children dead. What makes anyone think we’re going to do something now?
So let’s all shake our heads about this terrible event and go on to do absolutely nothing to try to do something about it.
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Too early, Michael. We know _nothing_ about the shooting; as I write this, the news can’t even figure out whether there were 2 or 4 shooters. We don’t know whether they used their personal weapons or commandeered them from on-site. We don’t know _anything_ of material use.
Yet.
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I agree. These “Gun Free Zone” signs aren’t working.
I’m writing to my Congressman now demanding action: Federal standards mandating brighter paint and clearer fonts on these signs.
It’s for the children.
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Damn you’re right. The fact that we have dozens of these things in the past few years has nothing to do with my argument because if the guys who did this had legitimate licenses, poof goes the argument.
Guess it’s better to do absolutely nothing to try to solve a problem. That ALWAYS works.
My point is still valid. No matter what happens, you guys refuse to consider any kind of gun controls. No matter what. There is no example, no matter how horrible, that you would consider.
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The comparison of cars to guns is the literal apples to oranges. I could go on a three paragraph rant about how wrong this is but I’m assuming people here are intelligent enough to know the difference in the need of one over the other for the US to function.
As others have stated, I’m interested in knowing more about the suspects first. They say there’s no evidence that the shooters were in the Navy so ‘disarming the Navy’ is another silly comment.
However, they could also have been law abiding individuals who never had a record, even have had the guns registered, and just went loopy. Short of removing guns entirely from the US, there wouldn’t have been any way to stop them.
I’m all for sane, considerate and responsible individuals for owning handguns but as many, many such discussions as this one throughout the interwebs has shown, there is a huge number of Us people who aren’t that.
What I look at is my life and how important guns have played in it. The military having them to help defend our way of life – despite what others may say, I believe our military presence is helping to maintain that. The police also keep the peace – maybe not 100% but a hell of a lot more if they didn’t exist.
But private ownership? Not one whit. My friend’s lives? Same thing. You can throw whatever scenarios you want at me and I can tell you to be wary of alien abductions but as it stands there is no need for private ownership of a gun to keep my life moving in the way it is.
With that being said, I own a handgun. I like to shoot and with some work done, I’d be happy not to have it and simply rent one out at the range. And to tell the truth, with the way Airsoft guns replicate real guns now – I’m enjoying them just as well. Funny though – there’s more laws in California being passed restricting the purchase and ownership of them than there are for the real thing.
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There is absolutely no way we will ever stop all gun violence. No amount of laws will do that, any more than laws against heroin have stopped heroin addicts.
But there is also no reason to not do everything you can to reduce that violence.
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