Are school shootings enough to eliminate guns altogether?

Question

Hell no. I will NEVER give up my right just because some *****y parents are scared to discipline theri kids properly and teach them morals. Parenting nowadays is going in the gutter as more and more are growing up without fathers and common sense. How can we tell others how to raise their children? We can't. But we can hold them accountable for what their children do. A minor child is no different than other property owned by the parents and therefore the parents should be responsible for what they do. Start punishing parents for this and we would see an improvement in childrens behavior.

Answer 1

It isn't just kids using the guns to take out their frustrations, but some sick men.

There was a comment on a talk show today about allowing teachers to have guns in school, "just in case." It's either one extreme or the other. (As a former teacher in a rough middle school, I would NOT have been interested in carrying a weopon.)

I don't like guns, but I'm not against people owning them. The school shootings are a much bigger issue than guns (I think one even said he had a bomb on him or nearby). We have societal problems, and with our great communication avenues, we get to hear all about it as soon as or sometimes as it is happening

I hear you about some accountability, but the perpetrator needs to have some responsibility, regardless of the age. You pick up a gun, you use it and if it's for the wrong reason, you pay the price. My 6 year old has to face consequences.

Can't keep everyone cooped up until the reach legal age. They're going to see and hear a lot when the parent is not around; hopefully the child has the foundation necessary to make the right decisions most of the time.

Answer 2

This premise, (gun elimination) however tempting it may appear, is not the solution to school shootings. The people who terrorize, prey on the children, the drug pushers, and all other criminals will still have possession of guns.
I do not condone violence. And yes, it must start in the home, at an early age. I think many parents are scared, because, children are taught in school, not to allow their parents to touch them where discipline is concerned.
Many children have to deal with an empty home because mom and dad both have to work to make ends meet. In order to keep up with the world, kids are not allowed to be kids anymore. We adults expect our children to excel, and to react to everything in an adult like manner.
Lots of kids grow up in neighborhoods where a shooting happens on a daily basis. Crime is the norm. They grow complacent, even desensitized to it. The world is no longer the way we had it when growing up. How sad it is.

Answer 3

The bad guys prefer unarmed victims!!.
When seconds matter calling 911 and asking the bad guy to wait is not a viable option.

Better to have a gun and not need it than to need it and not have it!!!
**Police do not protect you from crime, they usually just investigate the crime after it happens.**

So you are against the private ownerships of gun! Do you believe in fire extinguishers? Why, you can always call the fire department!!


No Weapons Allowed
Criminals this is a defense free zone
All law abiding people have been disarmed for you

Answer 4

Most of what you say I disagree with. But not all.

Firstly, children are not property. The law and common sense recognise this, as well as the fact that up until a certain age they are considered to be not sufficiently developed to be (fully) responsible for their deeds. Breaking a neighbour's window with an errant baseball will justifiably land the kid's parents with the bill, but making parents responsible for their kids shooting up schools is a different kettle o'fish! Parental neglect may be contributory to it, but it is the child that is directly responsible for the deed! Send THEM to prison! Make THEM dangle from the end of a rope! Put an end to it, and let the parents live with the shame and the guilt. That is punishment enough surely.

Now we come to guns...

Let me preface my remarks by saying that I live in Canada, and not the US, but I have been an outdoorsman, hunter and shooter for nearly fifty years. I was a Dominion Marksman and Bisley-ranked shooter in my teens. I used to own pistols until I sold them years ago, though I still own various rifles and shotguns today. And I would strenuously oppose any attempt to take them away!

But to me the 'right to bear arms' is not in any way infringed by placing reasonable limits on such things as type (i.e. pistols, assault and large-calibre sniper's rifles, machine- and anti-tank guns, etc.), calibre, and the maximum number of rounds in the chamber and clip. I have always believed that any hunter who needed more than three rounds to bring down game shouldn't be allowed to hunt! Lousy shooters with lots of bullets are a danger to everyone, including themselves. Especially if they're using them in shopping malls and schools.

And pistols, however many bullets they carry, are a primal danger. You speak of people's irresponsibility and moral decay, yet are not prepared to take away their tool-of-choice. Make the hard decision! You don't NEED four and a half pounds of steel in your right hand to exercise your so-called 'right to bear arms'. Just think about WHEN your Constitution was written to get a better understanding of what that phrase really means, and about the circumstances of the time. An unarmed colonial population might easily have been subjugated. But not today. That simply doesn't apply.

Now I come to the point where I DO agree with you, that being the erosion of parental responsibility. It is an unfortunate aspect of life today that parents so willingly surrender the rearing of their children to others, to bring up with behaviours, morals and ideals not consistent with their own. I don't refer to day-care exclusively either, or even principally, but to schools. Teachers have become by default today's surrogate parents. However good a job they think they do at it, it is neither proper nor acceptable to institutionalise morality, especially when - to use an old term: 'discipline' - is so badly maintained. And respect. Religion is another. Measured performance and healthy competition as well. The list goes on and on. Parents should take heed.

My apologies for my stridency. It's late and I needed a soapbox.

Answer 5

there is no easy solution to the school violence problem. But i know taking guns from law abiding citizens leaving them vulnerable to gun carrying criminals is not the answer. They can have mine lead first! maybe Metal detectors at entrances with double doors that you get buzzed in. Arm principals, teachers and employees with mace and taser guns. Slip in a mental health test a couple of times a year to see who is higher risk. require parents to serve as hall monitors(armed with tasers). Mandatory 40 hours a week service to the school per child.

Answer 6

the so called child is no longer a child when they take it upon themselves to act in a wrongful adult way, the "child" should be treated as what is fitting for the crime, if they are 14 or 17 or12 no difference to the legal end of it.

Answer 7

This country was founded by the gun. The people would never allow a total gun ban, it is too engrained in the culture.

Answer 8

When I put my question on like this it was taken off...

Anyway, Any one that does believe this like I do should know...

If Helloria gets in to office, That will happen...

She's already tried it once..

It scares me to think not owning a gun would be like...

Answer 9

When all guns are gone from this country the murders will be accomplished with knives....


Then cars....


Then clubs....


Then hair combs......


etc....

etc....

etc...


At the end we will all walk around bald in paper jump suites and not permitted to have long finger nails or teeth.

Welcome to century 22........

Answer 10

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