School Shooting

[Kidlicious]

Football?

[giblets]

How is allowing children to pray in school perverse?

They can pray if they want. The teacher can't lead the class in prayer.

[giblets]

Allegedly the mother began buying guns after divorcing her husband 3 years ago. How many did she think she would need? She bought an assault rifle and apparently a half-dozen 30 round clips. Evidently she was prepared for the Zombie Apocalypse. She ought to have paused for a minute and thought about the desireability of keeping that much firepower at home with her mentally ill son.

Gun nuts are a menace to society. Their arsenals are ticking time bombs.

[regexcellent]

Paging Lonestar...

[giblets]

Not sure why you think a hobby justifies endangering the people around you.

[regexcellent]

Because I don't buy that it's endangering the people around me. Gun control doesn't ****ing work. As I mentioned earlier, Mexico has an insane amount of violence and no amount of gun control has been able to stop that. People get drugs across the border. They can get guns across the border. And yes, some of the guns in Mexico come from, say, Arizona. But the supply of guns in the world and in this country are so huge that you'd just be changing the direction of flow, not the availability to criminals.

[Dr Strangelove]

I head the mental illness was Aspergers

I heard that, but so much false information about him and his family has been printed in the news I hesitate to give credence to the diagnosis. Also a number of acquaintances have described him as "nice". From my experience with kids with Apergers few people would describe them as nice. When you're in the presence of someone with Aspergers it takes less than 10 seconds to make the diagnosis.
Let me put it this way. If I had my druthers I'd call the disease "Ass-Burners Syndrome", cause after a good solid minute in the same room as one that's the thing you'd most like to do, flip them over your knees and set that hiney ablaze. [quote]

[Kidlicious]

His mother said he had Aspergers or something. His mother might have had some problems. We don't know.

[regexcellent]

We should file these incidents under "**** happens" instead of monday morning quarterbacking them.

[Kidlicious]

They can pray if they want. The teacher can't lead the class in prayer.

No one can organize a prayer event, not just the teacher.

[Tuberski]

We should file these incidents under "**** happens" instead of monday morning quarterbacking them.

I'm sure that's the way the families of 26 people, that were shot down in cold blood, feel about it as well.

Moron.

ACK!

[regexcellent]

What happened to them is a terrible tragedy, just as it's tragic when little kids are hit by drunk drivers—something which happens much more frequently. I'm not about to advocate increasing restrictions on alcohol.

[giblets]

Because I don't buy that it's endangering the people around me. Gun control doesn't ****ing work. As I mentioned earlier, Mexico has an insane amount of violence and no amount of gun control has been able to stop that. People get drugs across the border. They can get guns across the border. And yes, some of the guns in Mexico come from, say, Arizona. But the supply of guns in the world and in this country are so huge that you'd just be changing the direction of flow, not the availability to criminals.

I'm not talking about organized criminals, I'm talking about the occasional psycho who has an episode, and if he has access to an arsenal, shoots up a school.

[Kidlicious]

I'm talking about the occasional psycho.

People who like to shoot guns are more likely to be psycho than those who don't.

[Thorn]

No one can organize a prayer event, not just the teacher.

They can't organize a prayer event as an official school meeting, don't tell me you think their aren't christain clubs in schools like their are LGBT clubs?

---> back the actual issue.

Mexico is not a good example of gun control as they are not in a position to enforce it. You can make any law you want if you can't enforce it its a mess. If the second amendment was repealed I think they would have to go door to door like the census does.