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copperline
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Another request for comments from gun owners
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4/21/2012 9:36:06 PM
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OK, I'm a gun owner.... But I do think the lax and unrestrictive gun laws are going to have to change, the price we pay for keeping them so loose is contributing to pretty rampant violence at levels we haven't ever seen before. 50 years ago, There is no way that a kid brought a gun to school ....and while there could be a number of reasons why they do this now... the fact is that easy access to guns on the street allows people to have a shorter fuse, maybe even encourages confrontations that we used to avoid.
George Zimmerman is a pretty good case in point. You aren't supposed to carry a weapon when on Citizen's Crime Patrol. Being trained in the use of guns isn't about taking a weekend course at the shooting range... it's about what decisions you make and what the likely repercussions of them would be. Zimmerman pursued a kid, kid felt threatened and confronted him, he made the decision to pull out and fire at some point. A terrible point to have gotten to, but if the gun had not been there, Trayvon Martin would be alive & George Zimmerman would not be on his way to being the star of the next OJ Simpson trial.
The shooter in Norway is showing us how unhinged he was, he doesn't feel remorse and seriously thinks he should be hailed as a hero. Similar episodes of really unstable folks are in the US news everyday.
In the last two weeks 17 yr old Summer Moody (a white, Baldwin Co Vollyball player) has just been shot by guys who started out to run off some supposed burglers. These guys probably worried that the burglers were armed, too. "Warning shots fired", and Ms Moody takes a round in her head... still alive, but just barely. That's not the proper way to fire a warning shot. Poor judgement under duress is the problem. Dark night, plenty of guns.
Logic, especially that proposed by MM, isn't going to fix Summer Moody or prevent those hunters from getting their lives back either.
But I doubt we will change the laws. Americans love their guns, the Right successfully associated gun ownership with patriotism, self-determination, and apple pie. It's sacrosanct, for now. But as time goes on, so will the need for taking a look at how easy it is to buy a gun. "Guns don't kill people, people kill people" is such a shallow sound bite. Unstable, scared, untrained people with guns kill people.
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