Thoughts and Prayers!!!

funhusker said:
I don't believe we will ever find a cure for crazy.  We might be able to treat a lot of people for mental illness.  We might be able to institutionalize some that refuse to follow court orders.  We can raise our kids to be friends with everyone and make sure everyone is invited to the birthday party.

But in the end, there will still be sick people that want to hurt people.  It's never going to go away.  We can either continue to "be okay" with the status quo or get serious about the gun problem.  Taking away the tools is a required step, hopefully it can be done with common sense reform.  But let's be honest, there is no common ground with the two extremes.  
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Totally agree. Like I said, we need reforms that limit the number of guns (especially guns and mag sizes that are designed for maximum casualties) but we also need to take steps to reduce the number of people willing to commit such crimes.

When that piece of the puzzle is conveniently omitted, the whole discussion seems to indicate that gun laws alone seemingly will solve the problem. I don’t believe that. Yes it will help and yes it is needed but some of these whack jobs will still find a way to commit their atrocities. It will be tougher (not as easy), and it may cost them more to acquire those weapons on a black market, or some of them will find other ways to inflict mass casualties. Just so everyone realizes gun law reform is only a step (likely a significant step) towards better outcomes but it won’t be a magic cure. And granted, it would be much tougher and near impossible to completely fix the people problem. I just find it disturbing that so many in our society end up going down this path. We are doing something wrong that needs to be corrected in our homes and schools.

 
We live in the greatest country in the world. 

Thank God this person is allowed their freedom to Bear Arms as a part of a well related militia as the Founding Fathers intended. 

 
Dr. Strangelove said:
We live in the greatest country in the world. 

Thank God this person is allowed their freedom to Bear Arms as a part of a well related militia as the Founding Fathers intended. 
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This gives me the visual of an 18th century family reunion where the drunk uncle chases down the kids and gives them all “bear” hugs before he leaves to fight the British  :P

It sucks that we are to the point that I only feel a little bit guilty about cracking a lame joke on what should be a serious topic.
 

 
funhusker said:
This gives me the visual of an 18th century family reunion where the drunk uncle chases down the kids and gives them all “bear” hugs before he leaves to fight the British  :P

It sucks that we are to the point that I only feel a little bit guilty about cracking a lame joke on what should be a serious topic.
 
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Damn phone autocorrected from regulated. 

It's strange how courts - and Right Wingers - tend to miss the well regulated militia part of the second amendment. 

 
I almost posted that story earlier. I 100% knew it would be posted here as an apology for gun violence.

It's not just the nutjob. It's the nutjob AND the weapon. Eliminating mass-killing devices will make it harder to kill multiple people. 

 
knapplc said:
I almost posted that story earlier. I 100% knew it would be posted here as an apology for gun violence.

It's not just the nutjob. It's the nutjob AND the weapon. Eliminating mass-killing devices will make it harder to kill multiple people. 
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Yep. There's a reason guns are used in warfare today and not bows and arrows or knives or hammers or whatever else can potentially be used to kill people. And there's a reason we don't allow people to own tanks and bombers and nuclear weapons.

 
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