Gun control- Page 2

[jasonf]

Posted: 8/24/12 at 11:52pm

Not to worry, Bethnor. I'm SURE Yawper doesn't have one.

[bethnor]

Posted: 8/25/12 at 12:17am

You mention NOTHING about access to health care, decreasing wealth disparity, teaching coping skills, improving outcomes for the once-incarcerated, or anything else that would actually temper violence in the US. Instead you just jump to political bullsh*t and make uninformed assumptions about those who don't agree with your precious opinion.

why do i have to? on that count the "ilk" you side with are just as awful. they don't want access to health care at all. in fact, cho was taken by his mother to have demons exorcised. americans must spend on the order of millions every year on guns, but when the subject of universal access to health care is brought up, the whining about how broke this country is from the "ilk" you side with shatters glass. on its face, this suggests that people love guns more than their fellow humans in this country! why don't YOU address THAT? and teaching coping skills is entailed in teaching children THE TRUTH about what they are. instead, the "ilk" you side with in TN wants evolution taught alongside creationism, in AZ the bible taught as literal truth, and in UT lying by omission to children about their sexuality. and as i pointed out twice, the "ilk" you side with don't want ppl like holmes incarcerated AT ALL--they just want them killed, kit and kaboodle, because incarcerating them is just a burden on the taxpayer.

and one has to wonder at your background, as you cannot seem to read. to a certain degree, these events do NOT care about income disparity! IT DOESN'T MATTER what your race, religion, or creed is! remember, cho's sister went to princeton. everything suggests that the chinese man and that hasidic jew were comletely NORMAL before their breaks (the ex-wife of the latter was completely shocked, and the former, at trial, asked that the judge just kill him). it's the unpredictability of it that makes it frightening, and places a higher urgency on trying to study these subjects while they are still alive.

also, yawper, in your "scientific" opinion, YES or NO--should people who have demonstrated psychiatric instability as well as homicidal intent, like cho and holmes, have easy access to guns or not? i'm clear. i say no. if they obtained it legally, the system is too loose and needs to be tightened to that exactitude. if they acquired the weapons illegally, then the system needs to study what the loopholes they exploited were.











Updated On: 8/25/12 at 12:17 AM

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 8/25/12 at 3:47pm

"My opinion is that no matter how tough the laws are, those who want guns will always be able to get them. Just like anyone who wants certain drugs, or anything illegal, can get it."

I don't see it as the same as marijuana, say. I dunno, gun violence is FAR less an issue here in Canada, and I think that says a lot. I know one person who owns a gun, and he lives in the wilderness on a huge acreage. And yet, nobody I know feels less safe at night.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 8/25/12 at 5:04pm

I'm tired of the NRA saying that if every one was armed, we wouldn't have any problems. But, when you arm people who are so stupid that they can't even parallel park their own car, how are they going to use a gun in the proper manner?

[Marianne2]

Posted: 8/25/12 at 5:12pm

^ I agree w/ that. My mom said that people on the Colorado State University campus are allowed to carry concealed weapons now. All we need are some stupid drunk college kids to end up shooting each other. Not saying it never happens, but I think this would make it more likely to happen.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 8/25/12 at 5:19pm

What kind of science are you trained in, Yawper?