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John Wright's avatar

Just reading the title of this article I started laughing. The idea that "Congress" can stop these tragedies is absurd. Government can not *fix* human nature. As a society, we might want to look at other cultures and see if we can't pick up some of the best parts of their culture and integrate them into our culture.

Having Congress legislate to stop these problems is like trying to legislate against insanity or behaving well. Behaving properly is something you learn, not something you legislate.

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Darren DeBonet's avatar

Evil is impossible to legislate out of existence. There will ALWAYS be evil people doing evil deeds. Look at UK knife attacks. They’re actually making new knife laws, as I write this. Then there will be bludgeoning attacks, car attacks, truck attacks. You get the picture. The only way to drastically reduce school shootings is to harden the target. Perfect example: Nashville shooter, who’s name I refuse to mention, actually documented one of the reasons that it chose that particular school was the fact that security was weak or non existent and that another target had armed security, therefore moved to a softer target. This will drastically reduce school shootings. Armed security, hard target. They’re cowards who want the least resistance. Any shooter who survives a school shooting should have death penalty, full stop. Deterrence will reduce school shootings too. Coupled together, with actually enforcing the laws on the books that various states and law enforcement agencies fail to uphold, like numerous threats that go with zero accountability, as in the case with uvalde. That kid was a walking time bomb, they all knew it and did NOTHING!!! And one other thing about uvalde. Where did a kid of very modest means get 2 of the most tricked out Daniel Defense AR’s on the market today??? That question has never been answered. Modest means, $10K in guns, nothing to see here… Last thing. Psychotropic drugs are a common denominator in these shootings. A long discussion needs to be had about treating mental health in this country. Just drugging up the kids is not the answer. And another increasingly common denominator is gender dysphoria. This society normalizing sick, unnatural behavior is another large factor contributing to these shootings. Ok, there’s more, but if I continue, it’s going to be longer than Chad’s article! Later.

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Rebecca's avatar

Notice they have taken the drugs out of the reporting because well all the kids that have done this up until they stopped telling us were on some drug.

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Darren DeBonet's avatar

Yes, I did. Just like as of 2021, the CDC tracking of defensive gun use was quietly eliminated.

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chad's avatar

Exactly. And the reports show that guns are used in defense/to prevent crime (often just showing a gun is enough to stop a crime) at least 500K times (likely more than 2M) per year. That is orders of magnitude greater than the number of people shot annually.

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Rebecca's avatar

When I was in the 7th grade a girl much bigger than me was bullying me daily. I told my dad. He told me to kick her in the shin. I did that. She quit messing with me. Kids need to fight it out some times. We’ve taken that away from them and they feel helpless and depressed resorting to worse things.

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chad's avatar

Great anecdote Rebecca! People want to blame it on things like access to guns, but in the 1950s and early 1960s (and prior), you could order a gun from a Sears catalog and have it delivered in the mail. There also was no law requiring serial numbers on guns. Kids had gun racks in the back windows of their trucks and rifles were in those racks in the parking lot at school. Schools taught marksmanship classes. It is not the weapons, but too many have been deceived into believing the firearms are the problem. I almost added to the article that the weapon doesn't matter. A criminal will use knives, bats, hammers, cars, airplanes, fertilizer, pipes, pressure cookers, or anything else that can be fashioned into a weapon - it's the mindset of the perpetrator, not the weapon the perpetrator chooses, that is the problem.

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Lisa Emm's avatar

Long ago (relatively speaking), there were no "gun laws" or required registrations.

Contemporary gun violence is fueled by leftists as per the agenda that was set in motion decades ago.

Get right with God and get geeked up - we're going to have to make very difficult decisions no matter how the chips fall this year.

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Patricia Derringer's avatar

"Instead of looking at what is common about the firearms used in these incidents perhaps we would do well to consider what is common to the perpetrators. With such commonalities documented, maybe we could stop these tragedies before they ever start."

Amen!

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