Colorado Massacre

[soulster]

your gun laws are out of control.

Tell that to the National Rifle Association [[NRA), who's always looking for money, and has legions of paranoid white men! Do you know that the NRA, and vigilante groups like them have so much power here that they literally help write and approve of bills in congress? Then they lobby for their support and passage, and give great kickbacks to lawmakers that do, and intimidate those who don't. The U.S. is not a democracy.
For the last couple of decades, they have put fear into the American people by saying that liberals/Democrats are trying to take away their guns and abolish the 2nd Amendment to the Constitution. For the last five years, they have been using candidate, then President Obama, the secret socialist muslim, as the target of fear.

[robb_k]

Tell that to the National Rifle Association [[NRA), who's always looking for money, and has legions of paranoid white men! Do you know that the NRA, and vigilante groups like them have so much power here that they literally help write and approve of bills in congress? Then they lobby for their support and passage, and give great kickbacks to lawmakers that do, and intimidate those who don't. The U.S. is not a democracy.
For the last couple of decades, they have put fear into the American people by saying that liberals/Democrats are trying to take away their guns and abolish the 2nd Amendment to the Constitution. For the last five years, they have been using candidate, then President Obama, the secret socialist muslim, as the target of fear.

Yes. And The 2nd amendment NEVER meant that it was a US citizen's right to keep a gun on his person, or in his house. It gave the citizens of any US community the right to form a local militia, to defend itself from incursion from foreigners, in the absence of US Army's ability to protect them. That implied a local arsenal for housing the weapons. Not having individuals walking around the streets packing guns.

And, NO, USA is NOT a democracy.

There are just too many humans on The World today, and they are concentrated too close together. Human nature just won't allow them to co-exist peacefully. This is natures way of trying to save [[the existence of) Life on The Planet. The problem is that guns are too powerful to allow the masses to have such free access to them. Too many accidents happen, and too many people that can't cope with their lives can use them to indescriminantly [[or discriminantly) hurt others. One solution which [[I've no doubt) WILL help with this issue within the next 20-30 years will be the brain scanning of ALL newly-born children, and the registering of those who will need hormone or vitamin or mineral injections to counteract their brain activity difficiencies in the areas of "empathy for others" and "responsibility". Many people will say this will be another movement towards the "1984" World of "Big Brother", and a loss of even more individual freedoms. But it will likely be done because the social good resulting from it, in alleviating a decent portion of the danger to innocent population, will outweigh the "forced" "therapy" "encumbrance" on those people's lives [[and that of their families).

[soulster]

Yes. And The 2nd amendment NEVER meant that it was a US citizen's right to keep a gun on his person, or in his house. It gave the citizens of any US community the right to form a local militia, to defend itself from incursion from foreigners, in the absence of US Army's ability to protect them. That implied a local arsenal for housing the weapons. Not having individuals walking around the streets packing guns.

Agreed. But, that is not the interpretation of the Supreme Court.

[nysister]

Tell that to the National Rifle Association [[NRA), who's always looking for money, and has legions of paranoid white men! Do you know that the NRA, and vigilante groups like them have so much power here that they literally help write and approve of bills in congress? Then they lobby for their support and passage, and give great kickbacks to lawmakers that do, and intimidate those who don't. The U.S. is not a democracy.
For the last couple of decades, they have put fear into the American people by saying that liberals/Democrats are trying to take away their guns and abolish the 2nd Amendment to the Constitution. For the last five years, they have been using candidate, then President Obama, the secret socialist muslim, as the target of fear.

Say That!!!

[soulster]

Say That!!!

I can say this for a fact because I live in gun country. I know and talk with these people. They truly believe all the conspiracy theories. They live in constant fear. A lot of them are retired military and cops. They are trained to always have a gun, to always be ready. Some of these gun nuts have hero fantasies of saving the day if they ever find them in a situation with a bad guy trying to kill people. Somehow, they think they can get that one bullet to the head and be the hero. they never think about innocent bystanders getting hit by stray or ricocheting bullets.

And, of course, they push for weak or abolishment of all gun laws. They really want every man, woman, and child to carry unregistered firearms, and anyone who dares stop them will be labeled a socialist, and an advocate of big government. You can clearly see how this all plays up to the republicans, libertarians, tea-baggers, lone wolf nut jobs, like the Aroura shooter, and every crack-pot, racist vigilante group.

Of course, what these idiots never, ever think about is that their lax gun laws mean that the people they are against can also arm themselves against them too. They really do hate liberals, Democrats, and, especially Barrack, Hussein Obama! All their hatred is built on lies, rumors, and racism. In other words: ignorance.

All the other kids with their pumped-up kicks...

I personally don't have any problems with guns, as long as they are treated with respect, the users treat others with respect and act responsibly, and certain laws and restrictions are in place to help ensure that whack-jobs can't get them so easily. And, I believe they should be registered with background checks.