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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]13:16, there are several confusing things about your post, but I don't have time to argue them all.

The one thing I will say is that *no one* is trying to ban all guns.  There are two proposals on the table: (1) Subject people to more background checks before buying guns in order to prevent terrorists and known criminals from buying them, and (2) Banning certain guns.

You can disagree with one or both of the above, but it's disingenuous to say people want to ban all, or even most, guns.

I'm pretty liberal, and I kind of hate the idea of owning guns even though my DH grew up owning them, but I actually understand and agree with some of the Constitutional issues (and even the more philosophical arguments) around gun control.  But that doesn't make them insurmountable, and it seems like there is a compromise position between what the Senate Republicans and the Senate Democrats are proposing today.  [b]The truth is, mass murders aren't actually the biggest public concern with guns.[/b]..though these tragedies do shed light on some of the issues and we would likely have fewer with better gun control...but that doesn't mean gun violence isn't basically an epidemic in this country that we should simply ignore.[/quote]
IDK, as a parent, this is always on the back of my mind pretty regularly.  I am in MoCo, and my one DC goes to a school somewhat close by to the area where that mass shooter was caught a few weeks ago, the one who shot his wife and several people, one at Westfield mall.  I hardly did any work that day. I was glued to dcum looking for the lastest update (dcum news source for mcps was faster than mcps alerts I was getting).  I think many parents these days are more worried about school shootings than they are about Islamic terrorists.  I know the shooter didn't go after kids, but one happened in a school parking lot and another close to a different school.  That is pretty scary.

My kids, nor I, have ever been near a terrorist attack.  That's not to say that it will never happen, but shootings on school campuses (including college) are more common than terrorist attacks in this country.  I saw some headline the other day that stated that of all the mass shootings that have happened in the past year, majority was in a school or business setting.

and this is the thing that gets to me about how now more people in the gov't are willing to look at the issue of gun control seriously.. that it took a terrorist attack to spur them to this level of action, whereas the killing of 20 5/6 yr olds didn't.  I just don't understand these people's mindsets. Don't get me wrong, I'm glad there is some movement on this front, but the message I'm getting is:  "we will tolerate the mass murder of children by an American, but we won't tolerate an extremist Muslim from killing 50 adults".  This disgusts me to no end.[/quote]

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