venting....what happened last week was a horrible thing....but all the world's fingerpointing isnt going to fix it...As someone who works in the firearms field, I've taken alot of attacks this week..I wont stay
silent anymore..I put my life on the line every day. I work at a school and act as their security officer. I have worked in the bad parts of town as well. As someone who has had their lives saved by guns,
both in my profession and out of it, I am appalled that so many wish to vilify an inanimate object. I wonder how many of those bottom feeding, misery producing, political tools in the media have ever had to
fight for their lives? As I have, I can tell you that you are damn happy you have a gun, and if you dont, the one thing you want in the world is to have one. The world is full of predators. Mankind has
mastered the ones of the animal kingdom, but our own species rose to fill that void. Its so alien to people that someone would wake up and go into the world to do unspeakable acts of evil. Most people are
decent enough to never fathom preying on the helpless, but sadly, there are those that do. Then there is the mentally ill. The world has stigmatized them, closed their safe havens, and released them to a
world that doesnt care if they live or die. Mankind has always had the mentally ill, but yet why only now do we have such violence from them? The answer is simple....its the media. What is the fastest way to
get famous? Burn down a church. Shoot up a school. Blow up a building. It doesnt matter until you live of die after you commit your crime, the media will report every fact of you life...put your face
everywhere, and what they dont know, they will just make up. There are scientist working right now to cure the world's problems, and they toil in obscurity. But yet we know everything about a mentally ill man
in Connecticut that did a cowardly and horrible act. Their names and events become imbedded into our lexicon. It gives exactly what a sick mind what it wants.it can receive both attention and fear very quickly
You are so very right.
I'm sorry you've taken shit for this, Tinman.
I am sorry you have been under attack for what you do, Mr. Hassanov. But in the other hand, wouldn't you feel safer if it was not so easy for people to get their hands on firearms? Or if you could be sure that
as a security officer, you have a more powerful weapon than the one you may be attacked with? It's not so much about the weapons themselve, than who can get what legally and without anyone batting an eye.
So... People attacking you are wrong, for sure. But I think it is time the US citizen rethink their relationship with guns, as a society.
Also (and sorry for the multiple messages), you are totally right about the media - and people - putting way too much light on the bad, and totally not enough on the good. Blood sells better than brains...
I'm not going to come down on one side or the other on the gun issue other than to say that extreme views on either side are not productive. I will say that I believe that the way in which guns are used is...
a result of the society that keeps them. "Removing" guns from a violent society will do nothing to solve the problems. Nothing.
Upon a days reflection...I think its just something that scares people...Instead of learning anything about it..they just take factlings and try to make arguments out of them. Rifles are only used in 3% of any
violent crime. How is banning that going to solve anything?
People that break laws, break laws...its when they start getting the training is when its time to get worried....
I feel like, if guns were banned it wouldn't stop the "bad guys" from having them, and would probably just make things worse. Also, I think you're right about the fear.
I don't think that banning guns is the answer. Many, many rural people depend on them to protect their livestock and their welfare.. (I was one of them until recently).. Evil people will do evil things. The ..
issue is that judging who is fit and who is unfit to have the rights that other citizens have is a very, very difficult one.
I don't believe the U.S. will ever ban all guns, and I don't believe that it should. Nor do I believe that legislating weapons is a panacea for dealing with violence.
But, I do not see a problem with this specific legislation. Feinstein to Introduce Updated Assault Weapons Bill in New Congress
It may be a drop in the bucket, but if that drop is a life, or 10 lives, or 100, it's something. It's a start.
agrees with Magda
Yes. Total ban on guns is near-impossible. Even Canada doesn't. But limiting the kind of guns one can have? Considering it is unlikely that a whole army will invade your house to rob you, a handgun
Yes, very few people need full auto assault rifles to meet their everyday living needs. Call me crazy, but I'm just not seeing it.
with 12 rounds (max!) should be enough to defend it, right? Policemen and other law officers can be armed. I think Great Britain's policemen not being armed at all except in some exceptional situations is a bit
extreme, but it does tell about something... There is this old saying: treat a man as a boy, and he will act as a boy; treat a man as an adult, and he will act as one.
If you keep expecting any random guy on the street to shoot you, one may decide to do just that.
If it's a random guy on the street, if 3 shots haven't put him down, I'm already dead.
Ergh.. that sounds so trigger happy.. What I was pointing out is.. carrying a gun for defense. If someone attacks you, and you can't hit them in the very small window of opportunity a gun gives you..
..the point is moot, regardless of whether you have a revolver or a semi automatic, and are insane enough to carry it with a round chambered. At what point, seriously, does personal defense go over the brink?
Some jackass in my state with a concealed carry permit left his loaded, one round chambered gun in a movie theater. A 7th grader found it. We're talking quiet, safe, rural town, too. State yanked his permit.