Connecticut school shooting: Lawmakers offer prayers amid calls for gun control

[livingwordunity]

Vote for the candidate that would lessen abortions, but don’t give up any gun rights that might lessen unnecessary killings?

What exactly is your plan? By the way, conserves aren’t against gun control, we are only against banning them from law abiding citizens.

 

[ProVobis]

Also FWIW, the Vatican has one of the finest armed security forces in the world and the Swiss Guard carry Sig Sauer’s.

I thought burning heretics was more effective.

 

[JohnVictor]

What exactly is your plan?

Didnt he just say if danger comes your way,
you should go to the Police and check out your gun?

Sorta like catching a bird by putting salt on its tail.

LOL

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[livingwordunity]

Didnt he just say if danger comes your way,
you should go to the Police and check out your gun?.

That’s enough time for the killer to kill everyone in the school.

 

[Prodigal_Son1]

I’ll be standing with you…armed!

Don’t get me wrong. As I said, even unarmed I would hope to be able to stop such a thing from happening, anyway possible. The problem is, there are those who walk it everyday, and then there’s the armchair quarterbacks. Those that walk it, can’t be everywhere, all the time.

I also believe it’s very possible that some unstable are right there arguing gun rights with everyone else.

 

[Geist]

It’s a right I would gladly give up if it saved lives. Wouldn’t you?

My guns have never flown around shooting people by themselves in my care, not sure how letting someone else keep them solves a non.exist ant problem.

I really hate when ppl who care nothing for their own freedom are eager to trade away mine.

 

[Brendan]

You know, the license thing might be a solution. People have to prove themselves to drive a car and must have a license. Why would it be any different on a tool that is specifically designed to kill?

The guns used in CT were already licenced and registered. So is that your solution?

And to continue with your analogy, if a car is kept on private property, and only used on private property ( such as a farm), no state has a licensing or registration requirement for that.

A person can purchase a car and have no obligation to register it, to license it, or even be licensed themselves, as long as it is only used and stored on private property. You can keep everything from a Formula One racer to a military issue HMVEE with no issues.

So are you proposing an equivalent solution for firearms?. To be able to possess pretty much anything you want, as long as you don’t take it out onto public areas?

 

[Prodigal_Son1]

What exactly is your plan? By the way, conserves aren’t against gun control, we are only against banning them from law abiding citizens.

It seems law abiding citizens would have no qualms about licensing and registrations, and accepting accountability for their weapons if they end up in the wrong hands. That’s a start, and I’ve repeated it three times now. How would you build on it?

 

[livingwordunity]

Don’t get me wrong. As I said, even unarmed I would hope to be able to stop such a thing from happening, anyway possible.

There’s no way you would have a chance against the guy who was killing those children unless you also had a gun. There’s a saying that goes “you don’t bring a knife to a gun fight”. Even a 50/50 chance of shooting him would be better than how they had no chance against him.

 

[JohnVictor]

That’s enough time for the killer to kill everyone in the school.

Almost as amazing as shooting a man killing kids is revenge,

LOL

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[ProVobis]

I’ll be standing with you…armed!

He who lives by the sword…

 

[Bill_Martin]

So the losses are acceptable, as long as they are stopped somewhere in their spree, if it’s themselves, or others that stop them? I can’t see any of these kids as acceptable losses.

No, they aren’t acceptable. Not that my post ever said that.

 

[Prodigal_Son1]

The guns used in CT were already licenced and registered. So is that your solution?

And to continue with your analogy, if a car is kept on private property, and only used on private property ( such as a farm), no state has a licensing or registration requirement for that.

A person can purchase a car and have no obligation to register it, to license it, or even be licensed themselves, as long as it is only used and stored on private property. You can keep everything from a Formula One racer to a military issue HMVEE with no issues.

So are you proposing an equivalent solution for firearms?. To be able to possess pretty much anything you want, as long as you don’t take it out onto public areas?

And the gun owner that was licensed and registered got shot in the face with her own gun.

Sounds like any argument to keep from licensing and registering. All weapons need to be registered and what do law abiding citizens have to fear? They have a need to keep the weapon secret?

 

[Prodigal_Son1]

There’s no way you would have a chance against the guy who was killing those children unless you also had a gun. There’s a saying that goes “you don’t bring a knife to a gun fight”. Even a 50/50 chance of shooting him would be better than how they had no chance against him.

Have you ever been in either? Saying is one thing, doing is another.

 

[shipwrkd]

He who lives by the sword…

Blessed are the peacekeepers…
If that’s the way I’m to go, I’m ready. You see, I’m paid to be ready.

 

[JohnVictor]

It seems law abiding citizens would have no qualms about licensing and registrations, and accepting accountability for their weapons if they end up in the wrong hands. That’s a start, and I’ve repeated it three times now. How would you build on it?

Then mentally test voters and license them to vote.

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[Prodigal_Son1]

No, they aren’t acceptable. Not that my post ever said that.

I thought that’s what you meant when you said, ‘Wouldn’t it have been better if someone had stopped them earlier?’ Earlier doesn’t necessarily mean before anyone dies…

 

[Geist]

Hardly. 40% of gun sales are done without so much as a background check. It is extraordinarily easy for the criminally minded to build their own arsenals through legal channels.

Like when the ATF makes dealers sell to drug cartels?

Its mind-numbing ppl think more laws are the answer when the govt enforcing them is so corrupt.

 

[Brendan]

And the gun owner that was licensed and registered got shot in the face with her own gun.

Sounds like any argument to keep from licensing and registering. All weapons need to be registered and what do law abiding citizens have to fear? They have a need to keep the weapon secret?

You were the one who suggested licensing and registration as a solution. Are you know recognizing that your ‘solution’ would be ineffective and not stopped this attack?

 

[Prodigal_Son1]

Complaints of a culture of death and all these kill 'em and save however many lives you can while accepting the losses of others. Am I the only one to see the irony in that?