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Originally Posted by Bladewire
Children make stupid decisions, especially high school children with raging hormones.
Children are allowed to have guns in America.
That's stupid.
This generation of kids that have grown up with gun violence in schools will change everything so what you think about it really doesn't matter in the end and you and I will be dead soon enough.
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I grew up with firearms. We had shotguns and rifles. My family had handguns, but as a kid I didn't know about them and I never saw them or fired them. The idea of a assault rifle or a "assault style rifle" never was even on our radar. We used the rifles to hunt deer during the winter, and the shotguns to shoot trap. The shotguns were not the standard shotguns people most commonly owned; They were all from Europe, and had wood carvings in the stock. The shotguns cost more than a car did.
We never ever even thought of touching any of the firearms without adult supervision - not once. As a kid we played "Marines" in the back yard - I even had a fake M16. But we never ever thought of touching the firearms without my step father present.
I honestly believe what we have here is a combination of mental health issues combined with first person shooter video games like Call Of Duty (which I play), television and movies, and easy access to such weapons.