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I really need this answered for me. Because I'm having a hard time understanding.
What the fuck if wrong with people these days? Seriously!
As if what happened on Mon. at Virginia Tech wasn't bad enough. I'm pretty sure you all know about what happened. I don't watch the news or read the paper and I know what happened. As if that wasn't bad enough there is some drug crazed douche bag in my area has made several threats in the last day or two that he will make what happened on Mon. look like a cake walk. He's going to do the same thing but on a much bigger scale.
So now all the schools in Sacramento, Yollo, and Yuba counties are going to be on lock down tomorrow. And guess what? Our youngest son goes to his special day classes in Sacramento county. Lovely. So now what are we supposed to do? Send him to school tomorrow or keep him home? If we keep him home we will be letting this douche bag run our lives and we will live in fear. If we send him to school and something happens then what?
Then again what if my aunt had a pair of balls? What if? What if? What if? The world is full of what if's.
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Get a concealed carry permit and carry at all times. You'll be able to protect yourself and those around you.
One person could have stopped the VT tragedy.
I just read the news report, not even 5 min ago. The guy turned himself in to authorities, I'm not too thrilled about having a concealed weapon, with two young kids in the house.
Both of our kids, know that guns are to be used for only hunting. We have instilled that guns do bite, and if they are not used for hunting they can be very bad.
All of Ch's hunting guns are locked, up put into cases and are out of sight and out of mind. They are not brought out until next hunting season.
Yes I do agreee with you, what happend on my birthday, could have been pervented. Just like 12 yrs ago I was in Oklahoma when the John M. building was attacked by two guys who didn't care, and had no feelings. My oldest was 5 months old when that happend, we were stationed at Fort Sill Ok. Came home two months after the explosion.
My prayers goes out to all of those who have lost loved ones, in all of these awful tradgedies.
May they continue to have closure and peace, as the weeks go by.
S.R.
I don't believe I was directly talking about guns at home or that other stuff, but if you want to bring it in to the discussion...OK.
If you feel you must, lock up the weapon when you get home. Or disassemble it. (I can field strip and reassemble a Glock 9mm service pistol in less than 10 secs. And I only touch that model once a month, if that often.)
As you seem to imply, educating responsibility and parents' watching their children is far more important than locks.
The main point I was making is that everyone who feels the VT tragedy shouldn't have happened should carry a concealed weapon in public so it won't happen again when they are around. One shot by a responsible adult who owns, carries, and practices would have stopped Cho (literally) dead in his tracks before any young lives were lost.
Folks can talk about intervention and screening and even try limiting gun purchases. It doesn't work. The only thing that is proven to stop people like Cho is another person with a gun willing to stop him. I haven't yet found archived articles about the two armed guys who stopped the shooter a couple years ago, but it's a perfect example. And many more such lifesaving events occur every year. Oddly, the Press doesn't seem to want to publicize these.
Hmmmm...I wonder why?! ;-)
Except that not even person with a permit to carry can take one in a college classroom. Guns on VT campus are illegal. Someone caught with one in a classroom would be put in jail. Or at least I'd hope they would.
I'm very pro-gun, but I don't want them in a college classroom.
Like so many things in life, this issue is complex and difficult. While it has been proven that handguns do indeed prevent violent crime in the areas in which they are allowed, they also increase the incidence of passion crimes. While it is true that a single gun in someone elses hand on Monday would have prvented this tragedy, the idea of guns in schools in adhorent. Like so many aspects of our society, we try to have everything and we simply can't. We can't have a free and open society without violence, and we can't do away with all violence and have a free and open society.
Just yesterday we had a violent shooting a block from my office, hundreds of witnesses and seven bullets in an innocent person and the shooter is still out there somewhere.
Obviously, I don't know the answer, I'm not that smart.
As Partner always says,
If my grandmother had balls she'd be my grandfather.
I'm glad the guy turned himself in.
"the idea of guns in schools in adhorent."
Please at least be honest and state that it is "abhorrent" to you. It is your opinion and only an opinion, not a fact. Please do not bandy it as if it were.
I'd be perfectly fine sitting in class with all the other students carrying. Much better than being helpless if only one of them is carrying.
You want a dead son or having a temporary feeling that someone is controlling your life.
I'd choose the smart way over the deadly way.
I have no problem with guns, none at all. More families had guns in the past, they were a part of everyday life, and there was less of this kind of crazy thing going on.
With that said, it isn't just VT that bans guns on campus. I don't know of any college campus where you can take a gun. But, somehow, I can legally take a non-concealed weapon into city hall.
Recently a man who didn't like what was going on with the town council took his gun into a meeting at city hall. He sat all through the meeting cleaning his rifle (not being perverted here) and left after the meeting. Totally legal, nothing wrong with what he did, but it sure freaked out a lot of people in town.
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