ANOTHER SCHOOL/PUBLIC SHOOTING

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The narrative of taking away rights from law abiding citizens is wearing thin. If a criminal wants a gun they can get one. Better security is needed in today's world. Most European and Arab schools have security the U.S. needs to adopt better policy's that protect kids at the moment. Not 20 min later and wait for the police to set up a "perimeter"

For me, it gets old hearing people pushing the false narrative that they have "rights" which don't actually exist in discussions about public safety and life and death.

No one in the U.S. has a "right" to buy guns without undergoing a background check.  Gun ownership was specified as being "well regulated" in the Second Amendment to the Constitution.

And, no one has a "right" to own high capacity magazines or cartridges (or bump stocks, or rocket launchers, or automatic weapons).  Bearing high capacity magazines is an option and preference available to gun owners in some states.  It's not a right that's guaranteed under the U.S. Constitution.

U.S. citizens have a right to bear arms for self-defense, that's it.  That's the Supreme Court ruling in regards to the Second Amendment.  

Privileges and options are not "rights".

U.S. citizens are, on the other hand, expressly guaranteed the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness under the Declaration of Independence.  

That may mean limiting options and preferences for some gun owners.  

It may also mean that students and parents who consider armed guards objectionable will have to live with it, and people who object to searches at public venues will have to put up with it as well.

HOTD, your thoughts are heart felt, everyone understands that. The premise has been pushed by progressives for nearly a century, but it is not factual. The founders trusted the American people, the elites do not.

Read the founders words for yourself:

WALLBUILDERS

The bottom line to me is quite simple, evil exists, and it always will. Some people are going to do horrific things; the only question is how to react when it happens. I say be prepared; get trained to defend yourself. Learn to shoot, and practice regularly. Trust that people will always come to the aid of strangers being affected by evil. We will never stop the evil, but we must punish the perpetrators. Another simple fact, killing the bastards will put a permanent end to their evil.

For forty years my brother went all over the world fighting evil, and he did it with a gun. 

History is rife with examples of government crushing the citizens; we are the only people on the planet that governments fear. That is how the founders designed it.