bulletman
3 Answers
jhharlan
Man, you sure would think so. But hey! We can all pray! And feel sorrow later. Or we can get together and know one another. Get our noses out of phones or tablets just long enough to recognize the living person to your right. Or left. In my day, we all knew one another. We could feel like, love, and even hate but we could attest as to why! Because we knew the person. Knowing is what’s missing these days. Knowing and recognizing one another. Empathy.....
| 5 years ago. Rating: 4 | |
terryfossil 1
The old man broke the law Kent,if he had kept his gun under lock and key,the kid would not have got a gun so easy,,however i do not know if that law exists where he lives..>>>>>>>><<<<<<<<..
| 5 years ago. Rating: 4 | |
Bob/PKB
No, Bulletman, neither our children nor others are expendable. Your understanding of the N.R. A. Is ZERO. You do not have to respect that we are allowed to own a firearm here. I had to pass a written test and a background check, with a 30 day waiting period before I could take possession of my gun. MY gun, which is in a locked box and I am the only one who knows where the key is. Our gun laws are more than adequate...Dad not locking the gun case, or a school's lack of discipline, follow through when a concern is received by law enforcement....THOSE are bigger issues, not the gun itself. I have the right to protect myself, home, property, and any guests in my home/on my property.
My friend is teaching his 4 year old daughter archery, as he taught her mother 25+ years ago. Is that also a problem?
Sane people do not drive big rigs into crowds of pedestrians, mail pipe bombs, blow up buildings, poison water coolers, or shoot random people (hoping to be shot themselves). If my home is broken into, I will take any step necessary to protect myself and my property. I defy you to explain convincingly how that is unacceptable.
I'm really glad you don't live in the US, too. You probably think using your own tax dollars to support undocumented residents (food, clothing, shelter, medical) makes perfectly good sense.
| 5 years ago. Rating: 3 | |
The number of people killed in a single plane wreck often exceeds 250. Drunk drivers kill thousands annually.
Nothing STOPS a gun LIKE a gun.
If you study American history, you'll find the right to bear arms allows us to protect ourselves from an aggressive government.
But, you are right that the likelihood of being shot by an intruder greatly increases if I've nothing with which to promptly defend myself from beyond an arm's length.
We clamp down and follow our immigration laws, and follow our gun laws, stop looking the other way when people have miscreant behavior so we don't hurt their feelings, and advocate family, faith, and moral values that respect all, one's self included, THEN maybe we see something better. We have gun control laws. They are not enforced adequately. Guns are not disbursed helter skelter to people, except by the Obama administration, and those were to very bad people.
You want to take away the sticks and stones. I want to take away why people would use them to hurt others.
