Get guns out of homes, keep guns away from kids

AberdeenNews.com ^ | 10/13/2006 | Mary Sanchez

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

Instead of this nonsense, join the NRA, write letters, vote.

[Gaffer]

....Because for all the recent head scratching about how to prevent more school shootings, studies have made several things clear: School shooters almost always are boys. The shootings are planned attacks, not spur of the moment. And the guns come from the shooters' homes...

Hmmmm....profiling at its worst... Would that this cretin also espouse the use of "profiling" Arabs and Muslims at airports.... Hypocrites, one and ALL....

[Jezebelle]

I am a member, I do occasionally write letters, I own guns, and I vote.

It's not an either/or situation.

Some of us can walk and chew gum at the same time.

[Brit1]

Hi, Jezebelle. Thank you for a very good post and I couldn't agree more.
Most of my teachers were ex military from WW11 service my father was a former Lancaster pilot and completed nearly 60 missions over nazi germany (he was shot down on his 58th and it still Irks him today).

I will have to reserve judgment on the abortion issue as I am male and have not made sufficient research.

Now rap is a different matter altogether I loathe it to hell.
My era was the Beatles,I photographed them a few times ,I was very lucky,The Beach Boys, Crosby Stills an Nash,Simon and Garfunkel,Jefferson Airplane and more lately well for the last 25 years or so, early Genesis. Rap is just doggeral cheap to produce easy to write requires no musical ability and is sold to the mindless.

There I've found a forum at long last to get that off my chest.
But then again there is an economic agenda behind it and it makes money.

Your last assertion that today life is considered cheap
I have once more to agree with you but then death is flung into our homes by all of the media. Thank god for National Geographic and the History Channels to which the BBC is a prime partner.

EOR...(end of rant)

[robertpaulsen]

"I hope the author never hears some maniac breaking down her door while she lays helplessly in bed."

Oh, she'll shoot him. Just like Carl Rowan did, a big gun control, anti-handgun Washington columnist hypocrite.

What they really mean is that YOU shouldn't have a gun.

[Woodman]

Better yet, we need to ban sons. Boys are the problem. /Sarc

[robertpaulsen]

I grew up in a neighborhood so tough they didn't bother to use guns -- they inserted the bullets manually.

[Brit1]

The two great differences between your country and mine is that you have a Constitution that gives your countrymen the right to bear arms and your landmass is large enough for this. I have a very good friend a former US Marine ( Inchon to Khe Sahn) and native American who lives in Washington State.We have been hunting together,he uses a rifle and I use a camera and we have no problems with that.
I trust him implicitly. Although if I make too much noise I am treated to some very enlightening expletives most of which would be anatomically impossible...God bless all Marines from whatever country.
Our nearest forest is Epping Forest very close to an urban area of London besides there is nothing much to hunt anyway.

[do the dhue]

"Get the guns out of your homes."

Get all the spoons out of our homes too. Spoons are making our kids fat!

If guns kill people, spoons make Mikhail Moore fat.

[2nd Amendment]

I was raised in the country with guns stacked in every corner. Never had an inclination to shoot up my classmates. Used them to kill squirrels and small game for eating. Wow, how have times changed!

[Jezebelle]

I agree, and I thank your dad for his bravery and heroism through you as his proxy. My hat is off to him, and I doff it with great respect, admiration and appreciation for his service.

You've listed many of my favorite musical groups, too. Nothing better than the Beatles, Jeffeson Airplane, the Beach Boys and Simon and Garfunkel. I would add the Mamas and the Papas to the list. Great lyrics and harmony. I liked Mersey beat, too. Your synopsis of rap is right on, and I would add the violence factor in that genre is very bad news culturally, both as a reflection and for what the dark ideas it advances in the minds of our young.

National Geographic channel is superb, as are several others, including the History channel. We watch quite a bit of that stuff. You might be interested in the Blue Planet series being shown weekly on Animal Planet. I wish kids would watch that stuff instead of MTV, which is really nothing more than porn and violence. What a difference that would make, eh? Drumming that garbage into their heads day in and day out is a large factor in the difficulties we are having with our youth. I don't know why kids are allowed to watch. Take away the market, the incentive is gone, and it would dry up. people need to take a stand.

[hgro]

Agreed, crapola of the first order.

[Just another Joe]

So for once, maybe the suburbs and rural America can take a cue from the cities: "Get the guns out of your homes."

Or maybe, just maybe, the cities can take a cue from suburban and rural America.
Keep fathers involved in the families.
Have fathers teach their children how, and when, to use firearms.

[13Sisters76]

No. Most of the REPORTED shootings have been school shootings- just the kind the media likes. Shootings happen EVERY day and never seem to involve LEGAL weapons. There's the difference. People , like the dimwit who wrote this article, could care LESS if we all kill each other. They care about gaining power and KEEPING it and that won't happen until we all behave like sheep- including making sure we cannot defend ourselves against them.

[EGPWS]

Troubled boys with access to their parents' guns have killed their classmates, their teachers and quite often, themselves.

And yes, it can happen anywhere.

When will we learn and stop having kid's? /s

[Navy Patriot]

Outlaw schools, and stop school shootings.

There is no Constitutional right to have a school. On the other hand....

[do the dhue]

First black eye came from a shotgun at five years old. I aint bagged and tagged a Commie liberal Demorat, yet.

I think we have removed God from public view and our people could use a little love from God.

Our problem is how we have moved away from ensuring our children have morals and values.

Not all people, but a lot of parents are expecting the Government schools to put morals and values in our children. Big mistake.

I am about to start a fight, but our nation was founded on Christian morals and values (I duck when I say this nowadays cause some people will just come out swinging after I say that).

We are removing those morals and values. Now, the kids have nothing.

Let's just say we did teach our children some of morals and values that the Amish people have. When someone dissed your child, most children would want to forgive them rather then bust a cap in their arse (or they would just rather kick some butt rather then kill someone).

Now, because I say put God in School and public view, people will say I want to establish a religion. No, Congress is the only body that can establish a religion.

First Amendment: Congress shall pass no law to establish a religion, or limit the free exercise thereof.

A prayer in a school room does not establish a religion. Congress has to pass a law to establish a religion. Tell me not to pray and you just restricted the free exercise of religion. You just broke my Constitution. Now, I must use the 2nd Amendment on you.

Bottom line is that guns don't kill people, evil kills people. Well, start teaching good and leave the evil at the door step. I am sick of the liberals trying to bring evil into our house.

[Gritty]

"Get the guns out of your homes"

Perhaps this idiot wrote this worthless screed at home with a pen or pencil? She should take her own advice and get them out of her home, immediately, along with all her kitchen knives, forks, and meat tenderizers.

I (or anybody else with the desire) could easily kill her with any of these innocent items she festoons her house with.

[Armedanddangerous]

This is what we will contend with every minute of every day if the Dims take the house and senate.

It will be all the driveby media talks about.

[Tenyaka]

"Get the guns out of your homes."

Yes, please move to a different neighborhood and post a sign that says "unarmed occupants". That way we can keep the criminals focused.