GUNS DON'T KILL PEOPLE, OR DO THEY?

[Midwest Spy]

I've thrown around a negative connotation of Liberal in here myself from time to time.

Now that I'm on the apparent Liberal side of an issue, it's actually funny to listen to the views of those who hurl it.

They have nothing intelligent to say.

Nothing.

IDK, MS. I think that there have been some pretty intelligent posts (and otherwise) by both those for and against stricter gun control.

It's the same old rhetoric.

'Don't blame the tool', 'if they didn't have a semi-automatic weapon, they'd use a knife or a bomb', etc. (I'm on record as saying I'll gladly deal with a looney wielding a knife or homemade bomb).

I want 6-year olds to go to school and not wonder if they'll come home that day.

That's what this all about.

There's FINALLY a level of outrage in this country that's so great, that we're finally debating 'reasonable' gun control.

As many have read, we're the only industrialized nation that has such an epidemic of mass shootings.

And, you know what, let's take a look at this argument:

'Even if guns were outlawed, the criminals will still find a way to get them.'

The perpetrators of mass killings in the past decade have been mainly young men, who actually obtained their weapons legally. They usually have no priors on their record, and are mentally deranged.

Let's say that semi-automatic weapons had been banned. How easy would Lanza have been able to get one on the black market? He's no seasoned criminal. He has no connections. He sits in his basement all day and shoots people in video games.

And, if ammo were harder to obtain, and was perhaps even more expensive, again, it might make it harder for this type of incident to occur.

And that's what this is really all about.

I have no problem with Six or Maggot or Jim or HarleyGuy having guns in their home for self-defense or hunting.

I have a problem with people who look at the Massacre at the elementary school and say, 'Fuck you. We're not changing anything.'