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Posted on 10/13/2006 2:33:17 PM PDT by NapkinUser
More school shootings, and the inevitable commentary on the evening news: "I didn't think this sort of thing could happen here."
The heartfelt, but naive belief that murderous rampages "don't happen here" begs the question: "Where do you think such things happen?"
Labels exist for the places where shootings occur: urban, inner city.
But one thing urban folks can tell their scared suburban friends right now is that a good part of the horrendous violence in their communities is due to the proliferation of guns.
Sometimes it seems like everyone is packing. Someone disrespects your girl? Shoot 'em. Someone looks at you wrong? Shoot 'em. Someone mouths off to you at a party? Shoot 'em.
So for once, maybe the suburbs and rural America can take a cue from the cities: "Get the guns out of your homes."
Because while much of America lulled itself into believing that these things "do not happen here," they were also stockpiling. Where they live guns are used for hunting, for target practice and for a misplaced sense of security. I get that, my mother's family has those references. Mother's stories about growing up on the Kansas farm often involve guns.
There was the time when grandfather's favorite dog turned up rabid. "Get the gun!" Grandpa shouted from the field, knowing he had to shoot his dog before it bit his family.
There are stories about hunting rabbits and duck for dinner and shooting coyotes so they wouldn't kill the livestock.
But mother gave up fetching food from the woods long ago. She goes to the grocery now. She feels safe with good locks on the house. Grandfather's guns have been passed down as family heirlooms, not loaded weapons.
She has no use for a gun.
More people who live in these "couldn't happen here" communities need to come to the same revelation.
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.
We need to quit dancing around these facts, starting with the president. George Bush's recent summit should have been titled "Gun violence in schools."
Apparently that would have been too to-the-point. So it was proclaimed the less accurate but more benevolent, "Conference on School Safety."
The little political commentary about guns in schools has been insane commentary. Wisconsin Rep. Frank Lasee proposes teachers carry guns. Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt made the same suggestion, until smarter heads backed him away from the idea.
Arm the teachers? How about disarm the kids?
The best way to do that would be to address where school shooters get their guns - from their homes. Oh I know, people will talk about their right to bear arms, the need for self-protection, that they like to hunt wild game. All are understandable replies.
But anyone giving these answers should also honestly address two questions: Do you really need a gun in the house, and if so, how secure is it? And, how well do you know your son?
I can hear the refrain now: "Guns don't kill people, people kill people." Nice slogan.
Here's the truth: Troubled boys with access to their parents' guns have killed their classmates, their teachers and quite often, themselves.
And yes, it can happen anywhere.
That was simply beautiful.
When I was in high school in the 50's, it was not uncommon to see pickups with rifles and shotguns driven by many of our students. Of course, that was in Idaho and it was hunting season. Some of us kept the guns with us year-round to kill the four-footed varmints that we saw on the way to and from school.
Times sure have changed.
Finally, some clear thinking!
Let's just lock up all the boys. Especially those that aren't on Ritalin yet.
Which one is you?
I love it!
I can't wait to throw that in the face of some libs.
She (the writer) doesn't know that she is as stupid as she actually is. She just goes with the social flow. If conservatives think self defense is a good thing, it is just cool to disagree. Logic be damned.
That way the crooks know exactly where to look....
Allow me to make a slight varitation here:
Tell it to them slow: use 2 words if necessary: Dee + Fence BULL + $HIT.
I just want you to know I have lost 15 minutes of time from my schedule watching your amazing graphic... I love it!
I have incarcerated one smith and wesson, anyways. In there with all them vicious "'salt" rifles.
They keep talkin' to each other at night. Think they's plannin' a breakout?
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Hey Mary Sanchez. Stay the hell out of my life!
Damn, there goes my evening...
LOL. Don't study it too long; you'll start thinking like a liberal.
Allllllll weeeeeee arrrrrrrre saaaaaaaayiiiiiing is give peeeeeeaaas a chance.
Envision whorled peas
There now, don't you feel better?
Those two remind me of Blanco's and Nagin's plan to clean up New Orleans.
Those two remind me of Blanco's and Nagin's plan to clean up New Orleans.
Both dumber than an
"Envision whorled peas
There now, don't you feel better?"
Not until the UN passes a resolution eliminating plate tectonics...
LOL!
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