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Originally Posted by KillerK
"A knife-wielding man slashed 22 children and an adult at an elementary school in central China on Friday, state media reported, the latest in a series of attacks on schoolchildren in the country."
You think guns are the problem? People are the problem. If everyone had guns, these people would be stopped a lot sooner. An armed citizen is a safer citizen.
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these were little kids, you think they should have each had a gun? even if arming people in a school wasn't a stupid idea, who would be armed? the teacher right?
I have a daughter in kindergarten, and another starting next year, parents, teachers, volunteers, support workers, and numerous other people walk in and out everyday, there is no kindergarten metal detector, so this guy could walk in past the office and walk right into the classroom. So lets say Teachers were all armed, well if they were, this guy would certainly know that and so would the rest of us. when he walks in the teacher is not going to immediately notice he walked in over the sound of 20 5 year olds, drop what he is doing, un-holster his pistol and pop the dude in the head, at the most he would have said "can I help you". Bang, the dude shoots the teacher, so how much good did the gun do? all it did was give this nut job a second gun so he could shoot more people.
at the root of this, I 100% agree with you, people are the problem, parents have been failing seriously for decades, raising mental midgets that have no idea how to live in a normal society, but you can't ban people, you can't put them in jail till they actually do something wrong, and if that something is shooting 27 people, then you are too late. You can however make the sale and distribution of automatic weapons that have no place in society illegal, you can make possessing an automatic weapon akin to attempted murder, a crime serious enough to actually deter people from breaking it.
I don't think peoples right to bear arms should be taken away, I just think the definition of that right which many of you live by is ridiculous. I am pretty sure when that document was drafted 1) there was no Meijer to buy steaks and chicken breasts at, 2) AK's, AR's m16's and uzi's didn't exist. 3) please send me a link to the story where someone shot 22 kids with a muzzle loader.