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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
So what would you do to stop children being killed by guns?
Then what would you do to stop innocent adults being killed by guns?
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Me personally nothing. I am not an activist. I would suggest that work be done on the mental health end, more be done on enforcing current gun laws, and more be done on educating gun owners on the proper storage of guns and the handling of guns. It is people that kill people and a gun is just an inanimate object.
When I was in High School, almost everyone student in my small rural town, owned one or more guns. Almost every family had one or more guns in the home. Almost every pickup had a rifle/shotgun rack in it with rifles/shoguns in the rack. Parked on the streets downtown, at homes and in the school parking lots.
The point being there were many guns in the hands of adults, teens and preteens. There were a couple of murders during domestic disputes and or a robbery, but other than that there were not any shootings. Not a single child was killed via a firearm in my town. I do not recall a single mass shooting in the nation during those years, though there may have been. In those days there were three networks and zero 24/7 news networks. Generally speaking the three networks had 30 minute news shows presented in the evenings.
Times were different and our society was different. Guns are still prevalent and because of a change in society/people gun use apparently is more frequent. The gun is and always has been an inanimate object. A gun does not kill on its own but a people using a gun do kill people. Work on the people problem not on there weapon of choice to kill one another. The people problem is a small percentage of the population. Tens of millions of people own guns and their guns do not kill anyone and never will.