tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-848541039913019341.post2458904301446269718..comments2023-10-01T06:34:39.919-06:00Comments on Random Musings of a Tormented Mind: I don't even know what to say....KGouldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05537080163900313558noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-848541039913019341.post-49986799189153447612012-12-17T20:49:04.530-07:002012-12-17T20:49:04.530-07:00All I have seen on the news today is stories about...All I have seen on the news today is stories about gun bans. I totally understand that when a child is killed (or anyone, really, but especially a child), people need someone to blame. Or something. Guns were used, so surely that must mean if we take them away, this cannot happen again. And surely that must mean it would at least be more difficult to procure an illegal weapon for most of these 'average joes' that have committed school murders. Right? That seems to be the onus on the news, but I do not fall for it. <br /><br />If guns are banned, is it going to somehow be 'better' if kids end up getting killed with an illegal weapon instead, because 'the govt did everything it could to stop it from happening'? No - because the child is still dead no matter what. <br /><br />I have read and heard many times that there is an assault-weapon ban in Connecticut that would include the very rifle this man killed all of those children with. So did the ban work?? If it is indeed true that the firearm he used, or the number of magazines he had (or type of magazines) were banned in that state - the gun regulations didn't work anyway. I have not read through the reams of paperwork for Conn myself, I can only go by what I have heard several times on one particular news channel. <br /><br />One thing for people to think about is this: If these weapons or most guns become banned nation-wide, does that not open the police to search anyone and everyone's homes to be sure? If there is a ban and I call in and say that my neighbour used to have a whole whack of semi-automatic rifles in his collection and has never talked about turning them in after the ban, etc - do you think the cops are going to go there with a warrant and search his house? It seems to me they would be allowed to.<br /><br />Would everyone want to open themselves up to that? Have police pouring over their property to look for weapons that may or may not have ever existed? Made to feel like a criminal while your neighbour's curtains are twitching, just because some people are completely insane and murdered children and teens in schools from time to time? Or malls, or movie theatres - how will police know all weapons are handed in if they don't search private homes? Seriously. It's just something to think about.<br /><br />But in the end, I go back to what I said at the start of this comment - if there are major gun bans put in place, anyone who is killed after that will be killed with an illegally acquired firearm - does that make their deaths somehow 'better'? No. We need to figure out how to protect our children as best we can, and figure out better ways to spot problems with individuals (difficult in the US with over 300 million people to keep an eye one), and we have to remember that while a gun was the weapon of choice for it's fast mass-destruction, it still has to be wielded by a person who has ill intent and murder on the mind. The gun would be useless in the hands of a person who has no ill-will ideas in their head. It doesnt matter, in my opinion, how many weapons there are in this world - what matters to me is how many freaking crazy people there are out there who are ready to use them against our innocent children. THAT is what scares me, not the guns. It's the people who hold them in their hands. KGouldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05537080163900313558noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-848541039913019341.post-55234294381935745892012-12-17T15:07:07.020-07:002012-12-17T15:07:07.020-07:00If you don't have a gun in your house,how will...If you don't have a gun in your house,how will you protect your loved ones from someone breaking in to kill you?<br />Call the police?<br />If they show up in more than 5 minutes,your already dead.<br />Lock your doors to protect the criminal,otherwise you're a natural victim.Robhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07879704896605975038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-848541039913019341.post-43928931869052187642012-12-16T23:37:18.744-07:002012-12-16T23:37:18.744-07:00As an addition, many have wondered about how this ...As an addition, many have wondered about how this young man got his hands on the firearms in the first place. Not all of the details are in yet and who knows what news has been true or not (given that I heard some really crazy stories on Friday that turned out to be completely not the case - such as his brother was hiding out in the woods behind the school, but then later we learn he was at work in another city) - but the news mentioned several times that there were reports of him trying to buy a gun on Tuesday but was denied. If that is true, he was planning something I imagine. Probably planning for a long time, because I dont think you get up on a Friday morning, get into your mom's guns, shoot her 4 times, don a bullet proof vest, load up on ammo and weapons, and drive to a school and shoot your way in and then murder a bunch of people on a 'snap'. He might have 'snapped' to finally go through with his thoughts, but he didn't just snap that morning out of the blue.<br /><br />So what if his mother had everything locked up tight and he managed to get into everything during the night without her knowing? My dad kept his gun cabinet keys in one spot, his ammo locked in a different spot, and his guns locked in the cabinet - but if I had all night and wanted to cause some havoc, while he was snoozing I could have gathered everything up.<br /><br />Or maybe his mother did not have her stuff secured - what does that tell you? That all the regulations in the world are not going to keep guns out of the hands of those who use them in crimes. If she didn't have them in the first place, he would not have been able to do THIS but then his fantasies may have involved something else instead. Bombs, knives, molatovs, who knows,,, he would probably have killed less people but is THAT okay?? Would the families of the few slain children think it was okay that 'not everyone was killed, unlike if he had come in with a gun?'. Of course they wouldnt want that to happen but it would not bring their own child back if he had killed less people with a less-destructive weapon.<br /><br />So what are we to do? Lull ourselves into a false sense of security if gun bans go all-out, or regulations up the wazoo, or millions of weapons are voluntarily handed in? That doesnt sound like so fabulous an idea either. KGouldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05537080163900313558noreply@blogger.com