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shannie -> RE: Lets get serious about gun control and safety in our schools (12/18/2012 9:19:20 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Pulpsmack
Yes. Let's get SERIOUS about gun control and safety in our school.
Point 1: Machine Guns were developed in WWI. Assault Rifles were Developed at the end of WWII. BOTH were legal to own by the American public since their inception until the Machine Gun Ban of 1986, yet there were no rampant UZI maulings in schools during the 60s and 70s. Thus, if one is SERIOUS about the issue (s)he understands that guns are obviously NOT the factor of these epidemics.
Point 2: The school shooting trend became "en vogue" during the mid-1990s, when not only did a MG ban exist, but a federal Assault Weapons AND High-Capacity magazine ban was in place as well, demonstrating that these bans do ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to stop these horrific outbreaks, because even the deranged don't call off a murderous rage because the weapon of choice is illegal.
Point 3: Even when legal, virtually all, if not, EVERY single school shooting occured on a campus that displayed a "FIREARMS FREE ZONE" sign making possession or carry of such weapons illegal. Fascinatingly enough, these signs and the force of law behind them did ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to stop ANY of these murderous rampages. However, they actually were effective for something: these Firearms free zones effectively enjoin(ed) qualified students, faculty, and employees from lawfully carrying the firearm they have a legal permit to carry... the tool that used in that instant could have turned a tragedy of 17, 30, or more dead to perhaps 3. Thus, as with point 2, the ONLY effect this idiodic legislation has is on the people who stand to defend these bystanders.
Point 4: Ignoring the fundamental Right behind the Second Amendment (and why it was drafted in the first place), Regulating and banning firearms is an impossibility in this country. The Machine Gun Ban and the Assault Weapons ban (that expired in '04) did not elimate firearms. They prevented the manufacture and sale of new weapons to the public. ALL this accomplished was made the pre-existing weapons more expensive to those who would legally buy the pre-owned weapons while the would-be criminals could choose between buying the expensive pre-existing ones or illegally converting/stealing these tools.
Point 5: In furtherance of point 4, consider the war on drugs. This nation, local law enforcement and the federal DEA have had no success in keeping our streets and our schools free of illicit narcotics. We cannot keep undocumented aliens out of this country, we cannot keep illicit substances from flowing across the border(s). Once a market existed for firearms (under the delusion law enforcement could claim all the domestic ones), how difficult would it really be to smuggle weapons into this country.
Thus, when looking at gun control and the safety of our schools SERIOUSLY, we find it is a nonsensical distraction that has ZERO effect in keeping our children safe and even acts as an obstacle from a qualified and legally permitted individual or employee from saving our children's lives, preventing him/her from carrying that permitted weapon and stopping the crime as it unfolded. If in fact you do want to be SERIOUS about this issue, quit scapegoating the instrumentality and look to the conditions that are actually causing these deranged individuals to act this way.
Extremely well said. But it's falling on deaf ears. The media/government uses these school shootings to incite the masses to call for gun control. (Why mention the 30 kids who die in car accidents EVERY DAY? It wouldn't serve the agenda.) And it works perfectly. Every genocide is preceded by the disarming of the citizenry. Then it won't be one madman killing 20 kids. It will be a totalitarian government slaughtering thousands or millions. Look at the Rape of Nanking. The disarmed population slaughtered like sheep. History is replete with such examples. The Cosmic Wounds. Modern Americans call this far-fetched thinking, but this is exactly the reasoning underlying the Second Amendment. The masses are armed against the possibility of a brutally oppressive government. When the masses are disarmed, the government knows they are governing helpless sheep. Terrible things flow from that. Far worse things, even still, than 30 kids killed a day in car accidents. or 25 killed by a madman.
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