08-28-2012, 01:02 AM
Rumors are flying around here. A 17-year-old boy is at Shock Trauma in critical condition; a 15-year-old boy is in custody. Some people say it had to do with bullying, that the older boy was picking on the younger. Perry Hall is a huge high school. Classes were in session. It would be easy for a kid to leave, go home, pick up the gun and come back. There aren't that many people in the halls.
Too many people who have guns leave them lying around for anyone to pick up. I believe very strongly that it is completely unnecessary to have a gun at home for "personal protection." A run-of-the mill, untrained, unschooled gun owner is far more likely to shoot himself, family or acquaintance than some marauding felon.
Jeez, people. Try to figure out the difference between movies and real life. I reject the argument that if more people had been armed at that movie in Colorado or in front of the Empire State Building, there would have been fewer deaths. There would have been far more with all those vigilantes firing in an enclosed space in the damned dark. And shooting a damned gun in the middle of midtown Manhattan? There would be bodies piled up like cordwood.
There needs to be sensible regulation of firearms, whether used for hunting animals or people. I am so freaking tired of all this.
Too many people who have guns leave them lying around for anyone to pick up. I believe very strongly that it is completely unnecessary to have a gun at home for "personal protection." A run-of-the mill, untrained, unschooled gun owner is far more likely to shoot himself, family or acquaintance than some marauding felon.
Jeez, people. Try to figure out the difference between movies and real life. I reject the argument that if more people had been armed at that movie in Colorado or in front of the Empire State Building, there would have been fewer deaths. There would have been far more with all those vigilantes firing in an enclosed space in the damned dark. And shooting a damned gun in the middle of midtown Manhattan? There would be bodies piled up like cordwood.
There needs to be sensible regulation of firearms, whether used for hunting animals or people. I am so freaking tired of all this.