Who said it should be mandatory?
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Who said it should be mandatory?
Will you understand if he doesn't have one, TD - except another law that only non-criminals will obey?
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You're almost the same age as my oldest son. He is 44. The next in line is my oldest daughter, who just turned 41. When she was in h.s. a kid brought a loaded handgun to school. He actually walked right by her in the hall when she and her friend were at their lockers. He went around the corner and into his algebra classroom, and held the teacher and other kids hostage till the cops talked him into surrendering. That was in 1995. It could have turned out far, far worse.
https://www.apnews.com/9cbb43e465295611fa03877a370dc1fb
This was a bullying situation, apparently. Most of us got bullied as kids at one time or another, but it never occurred to us to get a gun and deal with it that way. Despite all the violent cartoons on Saturday morning we watched. Something has changed for sure, and the easy access to firearms isn't helping.
Why aren't you buying that idea?
White, older Americans of your age are shooting up public places. Like Steven Paddock. Your demo, that guy.
Do you ever have anything other than moronic memes and talking points. So this juvenile is a gunhumper? It's ILLEGAL for anyone under the age of 21 to own one you moron. So how come our gun laws failed? Again?
Let's put you on the record; you want to confiscate ALL weapons and ban them in the belief this will make everyone safer? Yes or No?
The internet does not make guns more accessible dimwitted wonder dunce.
I expect him to continue avoiding honest questions and spam the forum with his willful lunacy unabashed.
cawacko
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That’s a pretty scary situation/story. And you’re spot on about the bullying. (And obviously there were school shootings prior to Columbine but not nearly the same number as we have now nor did they get the same notoriety as today.)
I had lunch on Friday with two young kids in my office. One was 23 the other 25. It was very interesting to hear them speak as basically being the first generation to grow up with the internet and social media. The topic of guns and school shootings never came up but it crossed my mind while listening to them that no wonder kids are shooting up schools. One of the kids has an older sister who’s a fifth grade teacher. His sister was telling him there is peer pressure by that age to have an Instagram account or you aren’t cool.
Social media isn’t going away and I’m not attempting to blame all of this on social media but I find it difficult to believe that social media and the internet aren’t playing a role in why all this is happening.
Eagle_Eye
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That is kind of funny considering you admit to being a member of a "gun club". And like to blowup pineapples with a shotgun. Does'nt that make you a "gunhumper" also?
I suspect that you're correct, TD.
Nope. Wasn't my gun club. As I told your raving lunatic friend RB long, long ago, Mr. Owl competed in target shooting competitions long before I knew him. The private gun club was his baby. I just went there a couple of times with him. I have never fired a shotgun; not sure where you got that idea. I have two that belonged to my late husband, as well as a few handguns. The only one of those I've shot is a Taurus .357. Mr. Owl does his own reloading; he made special light rounds for that gun so the recoil doesn't hurt my hands as badly. If it were up to me we would own no guns. But he had many before we met; it's not fair to demand that he get rid of them now. I gave him mine as well.
I'm sure that it does play a role. I don't think violent video games are to blame though; as Jade pointed out, other countries have those as well.
Does he know you support a gun banning ideology that is determined to confiscate all weapons that are in private hands? He has to be in denial to be married to you anyway. Silly question.
Pineapples....lol...a case
cawacko
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I’ve never been a video game person as a kid or an adult. They were around when I was growing up but I don’t think kids played them at the level of today. The issue with video games to me is the number of hours some of these kids spend playing them instead of being outside playing (with other kids). (I’m not suggesting gov’t needs to do anything to address this but I would bet dollars to donuts it all contributes to what’s affecting kids these days)
My kids (ages 32 - 44) all played them, but we didn't have many of the "action" ones other than Duke Nukem. A bittersweet memory: My youngest, she of tender heart, spent hours playing Duke when she was 14. I asked her why and she said that she was practicing for high school. She's now a special ed. teacher in a non-secure public school. In fact, her room fronts right on the street where parking is. Scares the living out of me.