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by Caliman73
My reaction to this is all over the place. I have three kids. Two small children 2 & 3 and an 18 year old. One is approaching school age, and another one in college, so I put myself in the shoes of a parent receiving a call about a shooting at his school and I feel such fear and anger. I am enraged at the perpetrator who for whatever reason thought that taking a gun into a school and shooting people to resolve any issue was a viable solution. I am anticipating with dread the response from NRA and other blind advocates pulling out the old trite lines about "guns don't kill people..." and other crap. I am also waiting (and did not have to wait long) for the anti-gun ownership side to start screaming that "it's the gun!!!"... Ed Schultz, on his radio show started off the program screaming about that topic.
We do need to have a discussion in this country about violence in general and about why people are so quick to use guns to commit that violence. Now most of you know my stance on gun control and I have not changed that stance. The discussion however, needs to be had without all the stupid and trite one liners. We need to look at everything and not get caught up in our emotional trenches.
We have to find a way to reduce to the point of elimination, this problem with violence and apathy in our society.
Anyone who uses the terms 'irregardless', 'all of the sudden', or 'a whole nother' shall be sentenced to a work camp - Stewie Griffith
The American People will take Socialism, but they won't take the label. - Upton Sinclair
