This is not normal
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Noel,
Thank you, your belated brother, and your cousins for all of your service. Keeping politicians looking over their shoulders might just be the ticket to keeping U.S. Citizens such as yourselves from fighting and getting physically and mentally maimed and killed in no-win wars.
I’ve never served, but I always thank and salute those who do. And one doesn’t have to serve to be aware that conflicts are inevitable in life and that knowing yourself and your enemies in strength and weakness is key to surviving and winning those conflicts.
That’s great though. All those kids growing up on farms learning how to responsibly handle a weapon. I’m all for that. Now if we can get you down to the Ravenswoods Houses in Long Island City, NY or Fredrick Douglas Houses in Harlem, New York City. . Let’s get out there and teach those kids “Responsible Gun Handling.” No? No good?
In principle, I see no reason why not teach this anywhere that Citizens need instruction in arms for self-defense. What is your point about these areas in particular?
Here is the question though, do you think that people under 21 years of age living amongst us in GenPop should be allowed to purchase and own semi automatic military style weapons? You know like the Bushmaster XM15-E2S that 20 year old Adam Lanza borrowed from his mother and used to kill 26 people, 20 of them children, in Sandy Hook Elementary in Connecticut. He was carrying ten magazines with 30 rounds each. Balls of steel that guy had. Charging into an elementary school to do major damage when no one was shooting back at him. If only all those 10 and 12 year olds were taught proper gun safety and handling and had their Sig’s in their backpacks all of that could have been avoided. Too bad none of the teachers weren’t armed. But then again I remember being the bratty kid who tortured some of my teachers. Imagine if they had guns in the class room back then. Mrs. Diamond fighting back tears and reaching for the Glock in her pocket book to get even with that idiot kid who made her cry.
“Semi-automatic” means a weapon that fires one round and one round only for every time the trigger is pulled until the magazine is pulled. “Full-Automatic” means a weapon that continues to fire multiple rounds as long as the trigger is held down. Hopefully, you haven’t forgotten that from your service.
I actually have one solution to problems of school violence that does not involve guns at all: Education, and in particular schooling, should not be compulsory, nor free to the end-user, nor regarded as a “right.”
If schooling is not compulsory, then students who want to learn would not be forced into the same spaces with bullying hoods who don’t.
If schooling were not free to the end-user, then those who spend on it would have the most reason to get the most for their money by seeking out schools, teachers, curricula, and study devices that educate the best.
Also, no guaranteed funds would mean schools, teachers, curricula, and manufacturers of study devices would all have to compete with each other for money of students and their parents, guardians, and other sponsors. (Whoever can master Neural Networking to impart knowledge instantly between humans will be the one to strike the motherlode, both in money and in flourishing humanity in general.)
And if schooling were no longer regarded as a “right,” then there would be actionable expectations of conduct for schoolmasters, teachers, and students alike. The Mrs. Diamonds of the world wouldn’t have to put up with shit from hard-headed punks, who could be easily expelled.
See, not one gun involved here, albeit, people would still need arms for the world outside.
Laws are coming even if we are an imperfect democracy. 61 percent of Americans want to ban hi-cap assault weapons. It’s gonna take time, but that asshole, Charlton Heston is dead and his ridiculous gun-sucking demography is dying off as well.
Robert,
Laws to regulate “amateur” gun manufacturing/printing might even be easy to pass since it hits ‘big guns’ in the wallet.
3-D printers build products based on schemata and programming. In a word, information. And this information is not necessarily proprietary nor is it a military secret.
Do you propose to regulate and outlaw this information? That’s what’s called prior restraint and under the First Amendment, that is a no-no.
Would you also support enforcing gun control by repealing the Fourth Amendment prohibition against warrantless search and seizure, as was proposed by Hoplophobic gun control freaks in New York back in the Sixties and Seventies?
The Second Amendment protects all the rest, and rises and falls with the rest as well.
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