That is bothering me a lot. I expect a lot more to come out about that. Reading here she was a nurse! Was there a father in that home? She seems to have thought she was doing a good thing by taking the kid in. I have seen that, too, and then things went bad.
My teenage son brought a gun home years ago now from a friend's house and his sisters narced him off (they did the right thing imo). I got the gun and took it back to the parents and gave my son a good tongue lashing for that. I don't believe anything ever came of it, but my fingerprints would have been on that gun. My big mistake was that I should have taken it to the police, maybe instinctively I was afraid my son would have gotten in trouble, probably could have, but I didn't think about it consciously then. I was angry that the father was so loose with his guns, letting a jr high kid get access to them. I was also angry that my son took up with a kid like that; he wasn't one of his regular friends.
How do you keep firearms away from kids? Realistically? My son had a Mormon friend who came from what I considered a good, responsible family, still do. The father was an avid hunter and had his guns displayed in a glass gun cabinet in the living room. Any of their kids or friends could have easily gotten those, fortunately didn't. I'm still not anti-gun, just want only emotionally stable, responsible people to have them.
Why don't they have metal detectors at the malls? They do last I knew at the main place I buy groceries and another supermarket in a fringe part of town, couldn't miss them, had to walk through a metal hoop every time you entered the store. I don't know how well they work, but that made me feel a little safer, although I don't spook that easily, and it could give you a false sense of security.
If some disturbed individual is determined enough, they are going to find a way to carry out their sick plans one way or another.
I agree, that would be ideal. How does a free society go about doing that and remain free? I mean free, not the condition we're currently living in.
I'm at a loss.
“”Why don’t they have metal detectors at the malls? They do last I knew at the main place I buy groceries and another supermarket in a fringe part of town, couldn’t miss them, had to walk through a metal hoop every time you entered the store. I don’t know how well they work, but that made me feel a little safer, although I don’t spook that easily, and it could give you a false sense of security.””
How could you get the shopping carts past these devices w/o setting off the alarm every time one went by??
I don't and I won't. Bad people and crazy people are out there. I am not one of them. I will carry and be prepared until the day I die.
And the day I die will be either by motorcycle or old age. I will not die at the hand of a bad or crazy person. I refuse to submit to them.
Because the mall management doesn't want people to stop coming?
My big mistake was that I should have taken it to the police
Well that makes sense. Your son steals something and rather than return it to the owner you'd give it to the police so that the owner doesn't get it back. Tell me would you also have turned your son over to the police for prosecution for felony theft by taking? I'm truly glad I don't know you or your larcenous offspring.