Very good point.
Not to mention, they sometimes don't know what's going on with them -- most have both parents that work to pay off huge debts to fund a lifestlye and are't in their kids lives at times.
I concur with the rest, very sad...
I know one thing for sure (my wife and I were talking about this on our walk tonight)....the fact that parents can't bust their kids ass without getting arrested these days. A whole generation has now grown up with these stipulations. Anyone else notice the age of the killers lately?
I'm so really sick over the entire thing. There are 20 families, and countless others that are indirect, that are living a pure hell right now....a parents worst nightmare. I don't even know what to say anymore.....the grief is beyond miserable.
RIP and may God watch over and help the families get through this as well as helping the kids that had to see this happen. So very sad and senseless...so very sad.
It is that; however, the founders of this country didn't intend to have citizens blindly trust their government. In fact, it was/is expected for citizens to be critical and to continually question motives of our government. Based on the history of other nations acts and some trending negative actions right here in the US I'd say they were right.
A government by the people and for the people comes with certain caveats. When Constitutional rights are degraded then the other-izing comes into play.
Look guys, one thing to keep in mind is that if there were no guns, then all those kids wouldn't have even been in school. They would have been in their Government Indoctrination Camps being trained to serve at the feet of government for the betterment of everyone but themselves while singing hymns to their leader Obama. And also this guy wouldn't have been able to shoot anyone.
/satire
We have three active means of questioning the goverment: 1. The media. 2. Elections. 3. Letters/emails.
Are you saying we need to be armed to preserve our rights? Because I'm pretty sure any time the government wants to, it can just come and take away anything it wants from you, most easily your life. Whatever you've got ain't going to stop a tank or a sniper who has been told that you are the enemy.
Look guys, one thing to keep in mind is that if there were no guns, then all those kids wouldn't have even been in school. They would have been in their Government Indoctrination Camps being trained to serve at the feet of government for the betterment of everyone but themselves while singing hymns to their leader Obama. And also this guy wouldn't have been able to shoot anyone.
/satire
That's a very common opinion but what you forget is the average soldier is an American first, a citizen, a dad, brother, husband, and understands the rights they have sworn to defend.
I'm retired military and I can tell you that my opinions aren't just my own regarding the question of being faced with military actions against fellow Americans. Most simply would not participate and most would tell you if it did happen it wouldn't be a very easy fight.
Yes I am saying that one of the reasons weapons are a right is to preserve our Constitutional rights as Americans. God help any foreign invaders as well.
As far as elections, the media and letters and such most Americans would rather worry about dancing with the stars events unfolding or what's the latest Apple product to aquire.
We need to start doing something about the mental health of the American male population. Maybe some mandatory yearly mental screenings or something. This is getting out of control now.
Because public schools aren't prison-daycare indoctrination camps run by the government. A broken clock is right twice a day.
We need to start doing something about the mental health of the American male population. Maybe some mandatory yearly mental screenings or something. This is getting out of control now.
Isn't thre a video game where u get to shoot up an elementary school?
Something called " No one gives me an F on my math test. Bitch! ".
And u get to pick your weapon arsenal?
Pick your school?
Pick your armor?
Or was that real life?
Do you remember a game called "Postal"? It was damn close.
Plenty of teachers are CCW holders... None of them that I know of shot up their place of work or children.
We need to start doing something about the mental health of the American male population. Maybe some mandatory yearly mental screenings or something. This is getting out of control now.
Unless it's a 24 hour clock. Or has AM/PM markings.
Let's start with you, and call you unstable.
Yearly screenings don't do shit, and are a blatant violation of privacy. I say this having been a victim of someone at work who made me wonder how many days until he'd come to work and shoot me...but my solution wasn't "BAN GUNS. BAN TRANSGENDERED PEOPLE. LOCK HIM UP." It was being vigilant for my own safety, and trying to de-escalate the situation/make sure his attention went elsewhere.
Well, firstly I think you underestimate what properly faked intelligence could provoke someone to do.
And to your last point, it's not the fault of the government that people lack for enthusiasm with regards to how we choose to be governed. And I don't think guns do much to change it. If anything, I'd say they are an equal distraction from the various doings of the government.
One thing that is nice to see, aside from the regular customers there's very few cries for more gun control out of this. The primary focus is on detecting people's mental instability, where it should be IMO.
Then again, there really can't be any cries for renewed gun control if one examines the details.
1. The guns were legally purchased... by his mother. He took them and used them illegally. Hell legally you have be 21 to purchase a handgun in the first place (shooter was 20).
2. There were no "high capacity" mags or "assault weapons" involved in the actual shooting (although they apparently found an M4 at the scene). Just two standard-issue handguns that have been sold by the millions and are collectively used by over half the police forces in the nation.
So our gun laws did their job. Although I'm sure there are some here who will argue for mandatory gun storage laws with random checks (which do... nothing), and there are always those who will politicize dead children, fact is there was no reasonable law that could have prevented this.