GUNS DON'T KILL PEOPLE, OR DO THEY?

[Jimbone]

Jim, please read through my posts and quote where I said that we should ban firearms.

Thanks though for continuing to post about DUI's and bombs.

Thanks for not acknowledging, even once, that yes, guns make the killing oh so easy. In fact much easier than bombs, or knives, or even harsh language.

I'm not okay living in a society where this happens and we have to shrug our shoulders and say, 'well, that's a tough break.'

What do we do Jim?

I have no simple answer MS. But I know that what is going to be proposed in legislation, probably passed, and then made law will do nothing to address the real problem.

Guns make it easier until we have plasma rays. Plasma rays will make it easier until we have quantum disruptor beams. It is what it is... I'm not shrugging my shoulders at it, I simply want the focus to be on people who kill and not the objects they select to do the killing. I'm not attempting to run from the gun argument, I'm just attempting to get to the root cause.

For example, if this kid had Asperger's and someone suggested we need to round up and institutionalize all Asperger's sufferers we would reject that as ridiculous wouldn't we?

I recognize that you personally don't want to ban guns. But there are people that do, and they will use every opportunity to try and do it. This is heartbreaking and emotionally very difficult - but when it comes to our liberties emotion must be quelled and reason has to prevail.

Like you, I've wept at this tragedy... seeing in the innocents the faces of my own similar aged children. It's truly unspeakable what this subhuman did. But I see the attempt to exploit the tragedy as an opportunity to restrict our rights as something I should be equally concerned about.

Truthfully, it fucking blows no matter how you look at it.