Quote:
Originally Posted by Number 3
How do you prevent that?
|
How do you prevent the exercise of free will in any "free" nation?
I feel your statements are pretty good, except that you seem to feel that people that may do harm would only do that harm if a gun was available.
If you prevented a person that shouldn't have a gun from having that gun, it's logical to say that it was prevented because of a big risk involved, right?
But if the risk is so big, access to a gun doesn't remove the risk, it only removes the risk of it being done with a firearm. Bear in mind that McVeigh didn't use a gun, and Lanza stole the guns he used. None of that's political, it's just fact
So the issue is, to me, "how do you prevent people from harming each other?" Education might be a good place to start, so that "guns" are not mysterious, shadowy monsters that kill of their own volition, and also that it's really wrong to hurt other people. But not that everyone has to be a pansy in order to get along, either. Bluntly, kids are not being raised, on the whole, to respect life. Their parents can't even be asked to respect coaches and little league officials, how would the kids know that other people are important too? We have a culture of acceptable violence in the USA.
Look at somebody like Chris Brown. Or Lindsay Lohan. These "celebrities" get third, fourth, fifth chances when they break laws and hurt people or put people at risk. Why are they different? Why do we let our children grow up thinking that's OK and why do we let them learn that they will not really get in trouble for breaking laws?
I feel that the lack of repercussion for breaking laws, that is sensationalized and made to appear the norm is responsible for a lot of our problems. Look at people you know that own guns and don't break laws. Why don't they break laws?