1st grader (6-year old) shoots teacher in Virginia and it wasn't an accidental shooting

Chicago has the strictest gun laws.

If the law-abiding teacher had been properly armed, this could have been avoided, right?

All we need is more good guys with guns. That's what we have been told by NRA.

Their parents won’t be winning any parent of the year awards any time soon.

DEMOCRATS BLOCK SCHOOL SAFETY BILL AFTER DEADLY SHOOTINGS.

theblaze.com

Schumer blocks bipartisan school safety bill in Senate after deadly shooting

https://www.facebook.com/140738092630206

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) blocked a school safety bill introduced by Republicans but supported by members of both parties hours after chastising the GOP for allegedly doing nothing to prevent gun violence...

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MAJORITY OF MASS SHOOTING VICTIMS IN **BLUE** STATES.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/mass-shootings-by-state

And some of us are tired with the facile ridicule of people of faith. Regimes and entities that were or are agnostic, atheistic, or otherwise opposed to traditional religions have been, by very, very, very, far, the biggest killers of innocent human beings in history. Hitler (had plans to kidnap Pope Pius XII), Lenin and Stalin (repressed Jews, Catholics, Russian Orthodox Christians, and others), Mao (instituted atheism), and Margaret Sanger (founder of what became Planned Parenthood - opposed the teaching of Catholicism, Protestantism and Orthodox Judaism) had a huge role in the deaths of hundreds of millions (Sanger especially).

My point is that in some of these cases of gun violence, a basic discounting of human life is involved, whereas people of faith usually try to have some regard for others, a regard that criminal shooters often lack.

Further, many proposals of the gun control advocates seem likely to do little to prevent crimes while sometimes preventing legitimate defense of self or others.

MAJORITY OF AMERICAN POPULATION IN **BLUE** STATES.

Wow!! It took #26 posts before the republican v democrat blame game started…

that’s pretty tame by LR standards

FYI: Germany was very much a Christian nation when they legally voted Hitler into office.

And why did they do that?

Parents go to jail/lose their kid.

Time to stop f--king around here. When you are 6 years old the only place you get these ideas are from your deadbeat parent/s. Get this kid away from them so they have a chance in life.

More evidence that if this nation ever wanted to do something about it's issues in society, vetting for suitability of parenthood would be top of the list.

I am terribly sorry that this child had access to a firearm.

Who voted for Hitler is not well understood according to the article linked below. Here's a big excerpt:

"[R]esearchers dis­agreed on who precisely was radicalized to vote for the Nazis. Sociologist Seymour Martin Lipset wrote that the typical Nazi voter was a ­middle-­class self-employed Protestant who lived on a farm or in a small community. By contrast, sociologist Richard F. Hamilton con­cluded that the upper classes (white-collar and self-employed Germans) were the bedrock of Nazi electoral ­support.

Germany suffered from hyperinflation in the 1920s and began sliding into economic depression in 1927. The gross nation­al product of the Weimar Republic con­tracted by a quarter; unemploy­ment soared and incomes fell dramatically. Support for the Nazi Party, less than three percent of eligible voters in 1924, rose to 31 percent in July 1932, 27 percent in November 1932, and 39 percent in March ­1933.

The new statistical analyses by King and his ­co­authors show that the two groups most affected by the Depression followed separate political paths. The unemployed turned primarily to the Commu­nist party, which catered to them with a program calling for community prop­erty. The working poor, including independent artisans, shopkeepers, small farmers, lawyers, domestic workers, and family members of the working poor, dispropor­tion­ately supported the Nazis. These groups re­sponded positively to Hitler’s denunciations of big business and govern­ment, promises of intensive de­vel­opment of Germany’s own economic resources, support of private prop­erty, and plans for ex­propriation of land from Jewish real estate owners and resettlement of the landless in eastern Ger­many. Hitler’s support was higher in Prot­es­­tant areas than in Cath­olic regions, in part because the Catho­lic church strongly encouraged the faithful not to vote for the Nazis, and in part because the church ran relatively well-financed social welfare programs."

wilsonquarterly.com

Who Voted for Hitler?

The Nazi rise to power in Germany was largely due to voters opting for what they perceived as their economic self-interest.

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Those who don't pray might have greater respect for human life than those who pray, and lack of respect for human life is a big part of the violence problem in the USA.

What specific evidence do you have that says otherwise.

Seems like "Gorp" was talking about less (fewer) guns, not local gun laws. Oh wait, he was talking about "f-ing less guns".

So, do you have any evidence that Chicago has f-ing fewer guns? Otherwise, your post is irrelevant.

Please refer to the subsequent post on atheistic, agnostic and other regimes or entities that were against traditional religions and which slaughtered enormous numbers of innocent human beings.

This argues against your main theme, doesn’t it? Nazi Germany was only 1.5% atheist:

From Wikipedia:
A census in May 1939, six years into the Nazi era[1]and after the annexation of mostly Catholic Austria and mostly Catholic Czechoslovakia[2] into Germany, indicates[3] that 54% of the population considered itself Protestant, 41% considered itself Catholic, 3.5% self-identified as Gottgläubig[4] (lit. "believing in God"),[5] and 1.5% as "atheist".[4] Protestants voted for the Nazi Party and made up its membership more than Catholics did.[6][7][8][9][10]