Mr. Daystar
In a bell tower, watching you through cross hairs.
Assari you confuse me. Single shots for self defense are okay but fewer guns would be better. It is not about self defense or the number of guns. It's about the right to own a gun and use it in a responsible way. All weapons should be cared for in the same way. When you refer to "the common good", that is just an excuse to limit the individual citizen's voice.
Many people enjoy the skill of shooting. It's a common recreation in many areas of this country. These people find places to shoot at bottles or targets or maybe their old television because their team lost a game. They know what destruction a gun can have. They set up in an area that people won't get hurt. No harm done if they stay safe. Why not let these people enjoy themselves?
If I lived in a city that had high crime, the last thing I would want is to allow everyone walking in the streets to have a gun for protection. Too much of a chance for it to be stolen.
If I lived in a city that had a high crime rate, I would want people to carry guns....and I do, and I took a class, and I train, and I practice, and I purchased holster that makes it harder for someone to take my gun from my holster. Statistics have proven time and time again, when a state enacts a concealed carry law, crime rates drop over time. An armed society, is a polite society. Unfortunately, with the economy, and the abuse of a good deal of our civil rights, people are getting feed up, and sick and tired of being fucked over. This guys mother is as guilty as he is...how in the fuck could this stupid fuck teach her son, whom she KNEW had mental problems how to shoot....she fucked up big time, and had she lived, should serve life in a room where the parents of the deceased children could beat her at will.
Our leaders are just as responsible as the killer himself. They make it impossible for a family to exist on one income, they pummel us with inflation and more taxes, making it impossible for one parent to remain home, and be active in the children's lives, to guide them, and shape their values....then blame an inanimate object for a massacre. The parents of the Colimbine kids weren't questioning their teenage children why they were hanging out in the garage at 11pm on a school night...nor did they question books on bomb making. People freaked about the guns they used....none of which they were even old enough to own, let alone buy. But the parents never knew, and took no responsibility for their own lack of parenting. The guns were very naughty though....they killed people.