GUNS DON'T KILL PEOPLE, OR DO THEY?

[F.U.]

Just throwing this out there for conversation.

It wasn't that long ago that firearms in the hands of children was no big deal, in fact it was common place. We did not have the issues then that we have now. Even when I was a child I was able to take a firearm to school. People did not freak out, I did not have the cops called on me. I was not suspended. I was allowed to use the handgun in my presentation and I was graded on it. No big deal.

Fast forward 40 years and we have mass shootings, firearms are frowned upon by many, children are expelled for wearing a shirt with the pic of a gun on it or even biting there poptart into the shape of a handgun.

I just dont get it. Well I kinda do. Do we all remember when P.H.Sherril went on the first shooting spree in OKC? He lived only a couple blocks from me by the way. What did we do? The media latched onto it and plastered it all over every channel on the tv for days. It was so talked about that they even coined the phrase, Going Postal. I think that was the turning point. The media gave that sick individual his 15 minutes [ok it was more like 15 weeks] of fame. I think that was the point where these twisted misfits decided that they could make their mark in the world and their name would go down in the history books.
Maybe my thinking is off base,maybe not. What say you all?