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Originally Posted by henners88
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Originally Posted by henners88
I'll keep an eye out, if it's him I'll set the wife on him - then he'll be sorry! ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by BDunnell
Even that will be no defence against FREEDOM.Quote:
Originally Posted by SGWilko
Wanna bet, she'd talk him to death........Quote:
Originally Posted by BDunnell
But I get your point.
You just don't get it. If that whack job had been in Australia then we wouldn't be having this conversation because he wouldn't have had easy access to a small cache of guns and wouldn't have been able to easily kill those kids. Our gun control laws work because they have prevented our society from being flooded with guns. Gun control does work if the will is there. Unfortunately, the will of the US is sadly lacking.Quote:
Originally Posted by Roamy
It's called harm minimisation. You aren't going to be able to stop every nutcase from going on a rampage but you can limit the damage they can do by restricting access to the tool, ie. the gun, that makes their rampages all the more deadly. How many of those kids would still be alive if the killer could use nothing more than a melee weapon? I'm going to guess almost all of them.
I think (one of) the hurdles they will face in the States in respect of tighter gun control is the mentality that 'he's got a bigger gun than me'.
As for the mother of the killer in this instance - suvivalists really should be the last people to be given access to guns, because rationality and clear thought during a massive catastrophe goes out the window.
There's nothing like getting your priorities right, is there?Quote:
Originally Posted by Knock-on
So , we have a country where , in most places , guns are not allowed into schools .
Then , we get a shooting in a school . And , then another .
And , the decision in some places , is to require guns in the school ?
So , which is the right way to go ?
Perhaps , mental health counsellors armed with semi-autos .
By the way , I didn't lock my doors last night .
The only time I have , since I moved here in 1990 , has been when I am not here .
Ironically , the only time I have had any sort of home invasion was once , when a member of the local constabulary came in through my residential door , and through into my store , where he left a note on one of his cards on the store counter , informing us that the store was not secure .
Actually , I guess that's not totally true , as , last year , not long before Christmas , a deer came storming in the front door , and out the front window one evening .
I guess a gun might have helped in that case , had I been there .
Not worth it. You would have been fined a couple of bucks for discharging a firearm within city limits.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bagwan