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Originally Posted by Florya
Yes but it does happen with alarming regularity in the US. 19 school shootings in the last 10 years I heard.
Meet the problem head-on. Ban the private ownership of guns except in special circumstances. Hunters can store their guns in secure plces like police stations, collect them when they want to go hunting, and return them when they've finished. Target shooters can store their guns at gun clubs and not at home. Apart from these and maybe a couple of other categories that I can't think of right now, NO other private citizen should be allowed to own a gun.
Banning guns will not stop humans from killing each other, but it will make it a lot more difficult.
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i can't even believe this. generally i'm appreciative of your posts florya, but not here i guess. like i mentioned, do we ban fertilizer because it was allegedly what mcveigh used to kill more people than all those 20 school shootings combined? and we're talking 19 murderers out of how many millions of people in the united states? i dont feel its fair for my constitutional right to be abolished because of 19 out of 250,000,000 people. do you? don't even get me started on the amount of crooked cops... it's bad enough that in the our bill of rights has been mostly washed away since Bush came into office, anyone who's trying to abolish the 2nd amendment may as well be cut from the same cloth of crappy elected officials that rushed the previously-drafted patriotic act thru congress after 9/11. i'm a paeceful person. if i want to go out in the desert and blow stuff up, why shouldn't i be allowed to? my gov't can detonate nuclear bombs that cause cancer rates to rise for decades after the fact, but you don't think i should be allowed to shoot a bullet into a beer can?
whomever said media coverage fuels this problem is dead on. a recent school shooter, point in case from last year::
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/ar...hool_shooting/
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Originally Posted by atari 2600
One thing's for sure, though.
If you don't write messages or join activist group(s) that will present your message to government, then you're basically screaming at a wall.
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and if you DO join those groups, you'll be put on no-fly terrorist-watch lists.
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Originally Posted by swa(y)
guns....are fucking awesome.
...and i think shooting a deer is much nicer than stabbing it to death (not to mention easier).
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pretty much couldn't agree more, though i don't own any firearms at all and have no interest in hunting.