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11 Answers
daren1
Best answer!
ROMOS
jhharlan
Sensationalism. The thought did cross my mind in my teenage years but it never occurred to me to actually do it. I believe it all started with Charles Whitman and the UT tower shooting……..
| 11 years ago. Rating: 11 | |
bulletman
'GUNS' as simple as that!
| 11 years ago. Rating: 11 | |
digger
Too much access to guns and too many broken families
| 11 years ago. Rating: 11 | |
I saw some kids about 9 and 10 raid a condo. They ran out leaving a trail of cookies and fish shaped crackers. The police got them and put them on their stomachs and pulled their arms back ... these were little kids! Yes, I know any age can carry a weapon ...
sunnyB
May be time for better gun control laws.
| 11 years ago. Rating: 10 | |
I'm guessing it's not Russiaor the UK!
Of course there is the "Operation Fast and Furious" deal let by Eric Holder and covered up by Obama. Mexicans are still being slaughtered in their country because the civilians can not defend themselves because they are not allowed to own guns.
robertgrist
I was raised in a gun community and everyone had guns and amunition everywhere, all the time. Guns in cars, bullets on the floor, guns in your mother’s purse, pistols in over-coat pockets. Little guns the women like to carry in their purse and FBI keep in their boots. By the time I was ten I owned three shotguns, a .22 and 2 pistols that I sold off to buy a 30-06 with a 30X zoom telescope for shooting ground hogs for the local farmers. TV, movies and games all suggest mass murder of people. Shooting people was quite rare in those days. I could not imagine deliberately sooting any person. That was just wrong. As I grew up the world seemed to get less friendly and personable. Strangers were not welcomed with open arms, but were more often greeted with suspicion or assertive, predjudical opinions. The world I grew-up in was displaying signs of insanity which led me to studying subjects of mental distress and moral failings referencing the works of others who also studied the collective mind. The world seemed to be on the verge of falling into global nuclear war and a great terror was that war would begin in Cuba and turn nuclear overnight when JFK choose the last resort of contacting the Russians to see if a deal could be made. That was the most hopeful turn of events I had ever seen. Can we make a deal? That gave all of us hope for a peaceful tomorrow.
| 11 years ago. Rating: 10 | |
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muccle
I live in England and until you get rid of your stupid law of the right to bare arms you only have yourself to blame!!!
| 11 years ago. Rating: 6 | |
Years ago -- maybe 20 years -- it wasn't this way. I want to be safe.
I think everybody in the U.S. wants one. We had to think about it for a couple of years before the purchase (That is I had to think about it for a long time. I'm still kind of afraid of it.)
My daughter called the story book child Ride Who Dee Oh.
Note: This is a trick response. : D. Can you correct this one?
Colleen: Good for you. You sleep better at night. I'm up with akaQA most nights and into the morning. Maybe it will be better when I take a couple of classes.
mycatsmom
1. young, impressionable pre-teens and teens don't get enough guidance at home 2. It's all the violent video games they play and the movies and TV shows they watch. ( There again.....lack of guidance. They have a TV in their room, and the mom lets them watch whatever the h- - - - they want. ) 3. They're not being taught spiritural values, such as the 10 Commandments . 4. the lack of a father in the home. 5. the easy availability of guns.And the parents don't even know they're ordering high powered automatic rifles and ammo off the internet. 6.. the drugs kids take......either by prescription, or off the street.And drinking
| 11 years ago. Rating: 5 | |
Bob/PKB
"Children" shooting their parents are generally for financial gain and/or to end an abusive home situation.
"Children" shooting their boy/girl friends are "crimes of passion"; what would make a kid think of this kind of revenge? Media exposure mostly. If you don't grow up seeing this on TV shows and in movie theatres, you aren't likely to think of it yourself.
Most of the mass shootings I've read or heard about seem to stem from the killers being "loners" or "misfits", unable to comfortably socialize in their environment and with their peers. Retaliation for real or imagined slights, "I'll show you", "Hey, look at me NOW!", attitudes are the catalyst, and it's certainly been a "successful" way of getting attention.
Then, you have the gangs, where gun "play" is expected and encouraged. The value of life has been replaced with duty to the gang. That is the scariest, because THOSE killers are indiscriminate and cold-blooded; no one is safe. Sometimes the "initiation" is to shoot somebody.
The availability of weapons through "black market" means provides the gangs with their weapons. The "solo" incidents are mostly weapons that are family owned or "borrowed".
| 11 years ago. Rating: 3 | |
