We shouldn’t have to live this way.

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Anonymous wrote:Over react much? A mass shooting was your first thought? Amazing.

Not an overreaction. My DS is twelve and so far we have dealt with a rumor (thankfully false) of a gun threat, and when he was in preschool, he had to be evacuated due to a bomb threat (also thankfully unfounded).

Not an overreaction?? Both examples you gave were...overreactions.

OP, you are paranoid. The media sensationalizes shootings. There have been 15 school shootings (of those, 4 were university)in the US this year and there are over 132,000 k-12 schools. That puts the odds of a mass shorting happening at your child's school closer to zero than pretty much any other bad thing that could happen.

These statistics are horrifying, but what’s even worse, is your passive acceptance of this problem. It seems people an rationalize anything.

NP. Link for above stat? I’d be curious to know how many of those schools had shootings 20-35 years ago. When you had to ride a school bus and wear a patrol belt.

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This is how bad things grow - people feel removed from the problem and don’t take steps to nip it in the bud before it creates a bigger problem. As independent as we are, we are all impacted uniquely in one way or another by this world. There is no free lunch. Someone pays, somewhere.

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Whoa, op you could use some anxiety meds

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Anonymous wrote:Agreed. As a nation our leaders clearly do not agree.

Why do we need to wait for outr "leaders" to do something? Why don't we as a society take some responsibility?

Ok. How do you suggest we do this?

Hold it as a make-or-break issue. Support strict gun regulations or you do not get my vote. Period.

Seeing as they can just disenfranchise, they don’t care. Our democracy is in a constitutional and existential crisis. You may not even have the privilege of going through the motions of voting in another 5 years if people don’t hold our criminal pres accountable soon. Our congresspeople don’t represent their constituents.

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Anonymous wrote:Agreed. As a nation our leaders clearly do not agree.

Why do we need to wait for outr "leaders" to do something? Why don't we as a society take some responsibility?

Ok. How do you suggest we do this?

Hold it as a make-or-break issue. Support strict gun regulations or you do not get my vote. Period.

While I agree with you in theory, you realize that this won't work, right? Because all the people who don't agree with strict gun regulations are going to vote for the candidate that's even worse than the one you want, minus their support of regulations. Look, I want to solve the problem as much as you do, but you're never going to get everyone in the country to agree with strict gun regulations (unfortunately), so they will continue to vote and will then get their people elected.

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Anonymous wrote:12:50 PP, I think that's a great start -- ensure that people who do have guns store them and ammunition properly, and that they are properly registered and trained. It goes without saying that people who are mentally ill, criminally minded, or otherwise potentially unstable (this includes young adults before their rational reasoning is fully mature, around age 25) should not be able to access guns. Sure, you can't stop bank robberies either, but banks do a whole to try to minimize them.

Also, (semi)automatic rifles have no place outside the military.

I don't think you know what semi-automatic guns are.

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Anonymous wrote:12:50 PP, I think that's a great start -- ensure that people who do have guns store them and ammunition properly, and that they are properly registered and trained. It goes without saying that people who are mentally ill, criminally minded, or otherwise potentially unstable (this includes young adults before their rational reasoning is fully mature, around age 25) should not be able to access guns. Sure, you can't stop bank robberies either, but banks do a whole to try to minimize them.

Also, (semi)automatic rifles have no place outside the military.

I don't think you know what semi-automatic guns are.

Yes. Most people don’t. They have no idea what this stuff is.

And, after all the guns are taken away, who do you think is left to stand up to Trump 2.0...the one who isn’t an idiot, who actually tries to be a real hardcore dictator?
-signed, a 2nd Amendment savvy Democrat. We do exist.

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Anonymous wrote:Over react much? A mass shooting was your first thought? Amazing.

Not OP but lost a dear friend at VA Tech. I fully understand where OP is coming from.

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Anonymous wrote:12:50 PP, I think that's a great start -- ensure that people who do have guns store them and ammunition properly, and that they are properly registered and trained. It goes without saying that people who are mentally ill, criminally minded, or otherwise potentially unstable (this includes young adults before their rational reasoning is fully mature, around age 25) should not be able to access guns. Sure, you can't stop bank robberies either, but banks do a whole to try to minimize them.

Also, (semi)automatic rifles have no place outside the military.

I don't think you know what semi-automatic guns are.

Yes. Most people don’t. They have no idea what this stuff is.

And, after all the guns are taken away, who do you think is left to stand up to Trump 2.0...the one who isn’t an idiot, who actually tries to be a real hardcore dictator?
-signed, a 2nd Amendment savvy Democrat. We do exist.

The illegal homeless in California will rise up and save us!