We could have some movement on gun laws next year
Why would a Law Abiding citizen need a gun that can carry more than 10 rounds?
Let's simplify that: why would a law abiding citizen need a gun?
I have no desire to hunt or kill anything because I'm not a barbarian and I live in a safe first world country, so of course I don't need to be armed.
Let's simplify that: why would a law abiding citizen need a gun?
I'm thinking we need well trained (can't stress that enough) armed guards at schools and other public places.
We have armed guards protecting our produce at whole foods
Say what? Where is this high-security Whole Foods located - Fallujah?
San Diego
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You have a town in America named after a whale's vagina?! ?
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When in Rome
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WE have security guards at the stores here in town, but I don't know if they're armed. If they are, they're apparently very secretive about it.
I'm also VERY wary of the idea of security guards at schools. martha makes a good point about funding them and all that sort of thing, but even beyond that, just...no. I'm already wary enough about metal detectors in schools, because it makes them seem WAY too much like prisons. Adding guards to that mix-that's not what school should be, and I'd worry about kids finding ways to get the guns, too. I don't feel comfortable with ANYONE, I don't care who it is, carrying guns on school campuses to begin with.
What we need to do is make it so kids aren't walking off to school with guns from their homes in the first place. If parents are careless with where they leave their guns, or if their kid takes their gun and commits a crime with it, the parents need to be held responsible for that.
As for the Ted Nugent link from a couple pages back, I'm not even going to click on it. No need to kick of the day by making my blood pressure rise. But judging from the title of the link, safe to say that guy can be added to the "massive dumbass" pile.
Putting armed guards everywhere would be placing a bandage on a festering wound. It feeds into the fears of our gun culture and does nothing to solve our underlying problem.
Just speaking for myself, I don't want to live in an environment of fearmongering. I'd rather move to a country that isn't damaged goods. It's not a solution for me.
Gun nuts would touch themselves thinking of the idea, I'm sure.
Apropos of nothing much, but (and bear in mind I live on the other side of the world), an early episode of the recent, and garbage, tv series 'Fear The Walking Dead' featured some characters showing up for school, and I wasn't sure if I was looking at some sort of juvenile detention facility or a school.
I find this talk of armed guards at schools, supermarkets, etc. to be simply extraordinary and almost incomprehensible.
I mean, would you really feel safer checking out at a grocery store with the armed guard and some lunatic in a shoot out?
Only in the express lane. And that's assuming the MFer in front of me isn't trying to sneak 13 items onto the belt.