No real words

[tesla321]

How many people have to be shot before there is gun regulation? Thankful for quick-thinking teachers, praying for all the parents and children, and for the first responders. What a horrible thing. I hope I'm never so hardened so as not to weep for the loss of life. If that is coherent.

Bless you all.

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[mendenbar01]

I will admit my stats could be off, I can't check everything anymore than anyone else. But the issue is that people kill people with all sorts of methods. I am not opposed to regulation, background checks whatever for gun ownership. But if you want to take out your mad on someone, one method is as good as another, the end result is an innocent life snuffed out. The 2nd Amendment guarantees the right of the people to bear arms. The Kentucky Long Rifle was the assault weapon of its day. They were common as dirt among the population and yet they were seldom used as murder weapons (mind you, not never.) I still say the issue isn't the weapon but the lack of teaching of ethics and responsibility to our children. We are failing them and while they are bleeding out we are pretending this band-aid will make it all better. Make guns harder to get, especially assault weapons if you will. But both my sons, husband and I enjoy target shooting and one of the guns we use is an AR-15. When I was younger I shot a bow and I assure you I could have picked off a dozen before anyone realized where I was shooting from (bows are very silent). And for the scattergun effect, the bow is just as accurate in an amateur's hand as an assault rifle.

And I know car deaths are prosecuted, my point is just that a car is as much a lethal weapon as a gun in the wrong hands. But we require very little before giving a license to someone. Until we find a way to train our people is responsibility for our actions, no matter the weapon of choice, this sort of tragedy will continue to occur, whether it is a madman with an assault rifle or a drunk with a car.

I doubt we will every agree on this subject, and indeed may never even find a common ground beyond hoping this never happens again, so I will wish you the best of the Holidays that you can have, pray for the families whose lives are so torn apart by this and do my best to make sure that my own children are educated on the subject and understand the responsibilities of owning any weapon.