Coach Shoots Attacker as he Walks Students to the Parking Lot

stud mudder wrote:

It is unfortunate that 26 people are murdered. I certainly am not happy with that statistic. However, I am not willing to sacrifice the right to bear arms.

How mighty white of you...

Holland Nass wrote:

Lyndon LaRouche wrote:

but instead, another 26 nameless people have been murdered every day since this happened.

So you're willing to trade 26 human beings' lives every day for the possibility of headline making save by a person carrying a weapon? Again, an interesting moral calculus you have.

With approximately 300 million guns in the US, it seems to me we are over 200 years late with "gun control". While it is an oft overused cliche, "if you ban guns, only criminals will have guns", you're delusional to think that banning guns would have anything more than a miniscule positive effect.

Holland, good to see p

Holland, good to see u posting!

Holland Nass wrote:

With approximately 300 million guns in the US, it seems to me we are over 200 years late with "gun control". While it is an oft overused cliche, "if you ban guns, only criminals will have guns", you're delusional to think that banning guns would have anything more than a miniscule positive effect.

that is nonsense. In most of Canada, a handgun is a 2hr drive away. There are a LOT of illegal guns in Canada. What is the result? Greatly reduced gun crime. Why

1. If you use a gun in any crime, you are in deep caca. Its a felony, loaded or not.

2. Seeing a gun is unusual, so if one is used, it gets noticed. So if you are going to carry one, you had better be very careful if/when you pull it out.

3. There is no gun-defense culture. People do not associate guns for personal defense. They associate them with hunting.

Buy back all guns in the US, and turn the "War on Drugs" in the "War on Guns" and there will be no gun crime.

This would require americans to see the benefit of this approach in other countries - something that is unlikely to happen due to the love affair the US has with its own, "Uniqueness".