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2013-02-19 8:53 PM

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Subject: RE: Alcohol is blamed for far more deaths than guns every year, so why...

powerman - 2013-02-19 5:46 PM

Kido - 2013-02-19 12:11 PM

I understand all your points.

Obviously, DUI (and not texting) is HUGE HUGE HUGE problem. Even bigger than guns in many respects. We need to address that and we need to take that seriously.

But we need to look at guns. I'm not saying banning or removal. I like them and want them. But there is ALWAYS something you can reexamine. What we got now, is not working. There has to be something that can be done to improve it.

But using the argument that we shouldn't be focusing on guns when there is a bigger killer out there (which is what it sounds like to me sometime)? Or whatever you are doing to guns, should also be done to other offenders? If you want to regulate guns, why are you not after knives? Why don't we handle guns, then also look at knives? Or drunks, or obesity, or whatever.

TO ME, it sometimes sounds like when a kid gets busted at doing something wrong and their defense is "everyone else is doing it or even doing WORSE things - why you picking on me?".

Cool. I think you understood I was talking general you, and I took it the same. It's reasonable.

As a society, we see problems and we want them fixed. As a society, we have a lot of big problems that need a lot of work. Yet a school shooting gets all the press, when mass shootings are a very small problem comparatively. And yes, Sandy Hook is different, and it is horrifically tragic. It will get more press... but that does not mean we have to rush out and push forward knee jerk legislation.

At this point in the game... somebody's rights are going to be infringed on... privacy, property, due process, 2A... but if you are going to focus solely on the tool of the massacre, then that is not fixing the problem. And everybody that does not care about guns loves to throw up the 2A as the sacrificial lamb because that right effects them the least... but that is not how the Constitution works.

All we have heard about since Sandy Hook is gun control. The only action taken is on gun control... oh ya... and then everyone "says" we need to do more for mental health... but then they do nothing. Not that I like Micheal Moore, but even he said SSIs need a serious look at from Columbine. Columbine, West Virginia, Aurora, and Sandy Hook all were using some sort of SSI or combination there of. If we honestly want to solve the problem, then stop looking at the most easy, visible, questionable thing you can find.... fix the darn problem.

Your last sentence nails it. Yes we can secure guns better; yes we can tighten requirements/certification, but these are not the problem or the root cause of the problem.

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