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So now we want guns in schools.......just in case? Then we have 10 accidental shootings a year in the classroom or the school yard??? Madness.

This is the insane philosophy of MAD: Mutually Assured Destruction made ever so popular under President Kennedy and his Secretary of Defence Robert McNamara. The whole concept was/ is a Gamble. Was anyone safer, really? I don't think so; people continued and are continuing to kill each other in any number of ways.
We have finally reached the point in time that we all had been warned of,( I personally think),by all the clear messages and warnings given to all those so called "contactees" back in the 50's and 60's about the uses on nuclear and plutonium bomb testing underground, above ground and in our planet's atmosphere. Then blame was transferred over to the use of hydrocarbons and the uses of spray cans, as if the use of sprays from cans could compete with nuclear radiation poisoning our air, our waters, our earth and all its crops etc. Sadly we do seem to have reached some time ago the points of no return. Now we have a school of thought that basically says, "well ok, we're finished and we will all die by radiation and other man made chemicals, slowly by genetic mutations and finally by sterilization, so we may as well go on killing each other to our heart's content. Regardless, we all will die." Lovely. Unfortunately that kind of insanity has some type of perverted logic and it does appeal to people. Shame we can't take those people who are in charge of our countries by the scruff of their necks and rub their noses into the bodies of the dead that lie on the battlefields all over our planet, into those dying by chemical and nuclear radiation from contaminated rivers and lakes, from all the "genetically modified" crops spreading like a plague....only if we could, perhaps that at least would give us some satisfaction in seeing those wake up to what they have done to us and are urging us to continue supporting their madness to keep killing ourselves in orgies of death worship.
After all the deaths I've seen in several wars I had my own "epiphany" and these are now my thought on this. And I got tired of loosing all my friends and kameraden in war after war to no real purpose...

Yeah, right. Guns turn good people into bad people like cars turn people into drunk drivers and pens turn people into check forgers. Drugs are bad, Mmmkay?

Just make bullets a thousand bucks a pop... That'll make sure of both the aim and the intention...

Mark

I think that anyone who wants to own a gun should have to have a psychological exam, a knowledge exam on the gun they wish to own, and of course a criminal back ground check. They have to be able to pass all 3 in order to own a gun.

Regardless of where you stand on the issue of the U.S. involvement in

Iraq , here's a sobering statistic.

There has been a monthly average of
160,000 troops in the Iraq theatre of operations during the last 22
months, and a total of 2,112 deaths.

That gives a firearm death rate of
60 per 100,000 soldiers per month.

The firearm death rate in Washington D.C. is 80.6 per 100,000 persons
for the same period.

That means that you are about 25% more likely to
be shot and killed in the U.S. Capital than you are in Iraq.

Conclusion: The U.S. should pull out of Washington.

And D.C. has very strict gun laws...

I have guns and I am going to keep'em!!!

So far my only experiences with guns have been positive. We have guns in our home for sentimental reasons and for protection. I trust my hubby to know when & how to protect us if the need arises

I grew up with guns and enjoy shooting some myself, but I'm by no means a hunter or someone who would be irresponsible with a firearm, shot gun, pistol, or otherwise.

Earl is a hunter which is fine with me as long as Bambi comes home in white or brown paper wrapping and not on the hood of his truck. If I saw a deer in or on his truck before he processed it, it would not be coming into our house. Good thing I don't work in a meat processing plant, we'd all have to become vegetarians.

I think that it is idealistic to outlaw or to legalize guns. With millions of them out there and with the service life of them being so long. I have fired weapons that were pushing 100 years old. Some don't even have serial numbers. Making any kind of accounting impossible.

I have trained soliders to use them and have seen a soldier fire a burst off at a instructor he did not like. Fortunate for the instructor, another
instructor saw him turn to aim down the firing line and jumped in the pit with him and thew his aim off.

Not doubt about it, guns kill. That is what they are designed for.
That is why the person behind the gun has to be trained, screened, and permited to use it. What is sick in the world today, is the arming
of child soldiers in Africa. Or the use of them for genocide of a race or culture. Or a school shooting with an assault weapon.

But does that not all come back to the same mentality as of that recruit that attempted to shot his instructor? He was mentally sick later determined in serise of psychological exams. When you hand them out to say 500 child soldiers, it is just madness on a grander scale. Use them in genocide as Hussien and Milosovic did, again even more madness on a grander scale. And in school and work place shooting, look how many commit suciede? That is sick behavior. We need to better determine the persons with such sick behavior and keep thier hands of weapons.

I am all for reducing weapon arnsals. But are you going to get a Russia or a China to reduce devolping and exporting them? Good luck. Arms manufacturing and export is big business in those countries. Think they will follow suit if you make it harder or put more laws on it here to make and export? Again good luck.

The demand for them is growing. So there is no economic reason for countries or manufactures to slow this down. By the way, make bullets
a $1000 each and you know what you have? A lot of home reloading going on.

I think that you need to stay ahead on the research curve of weapon technology. Just one example here. Our M-1 a semi automatic rifle, many have said helped to win WWII. It gave a squad of soldiers, the fire power of nearly a platoon of soldiers. If you feel it important to win future wars and conflicts, then this is not a curve to fall behind on.

I wish I lived in ideal world. To go out and talk with Walden at his pond. But the reality of today is he likely would meet you with a 9mm tucked under his belt.

Guns are never the right way to solve a problem.. Unless someone is trying to kill you, i guess. But with all respect to the gun issue, what about the legalization of marijuana? Just a question.. I'm for it. What about you?

But we might not have a massacre of helpless people... I'd take my chance on the accidental shootings...

In Australia we have very strict gun laws which came about after several mass murders..

I find it very hard to get my head around the fact that nearly every one in the states owns a gun.

Guns are used for killing and in my way of thinking .....anyone who owns one is willing to kill someone ...

somehow that just doesnt sit well with me.....

I have to agree with you on this one...