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<blockquote data-quote="sortaisle" data-source="post: 1074538" data-attributes="member: 17605"><p>It&#039;s amazing how much Newtown is in the media. It deserves to be there for sure. But this happens in other countries every single day. It happens in Congo everyday. It happens in lots of places. Newtown wasn&#039;t even the deadliest school attack. The Bath Michigan school house attack was the deadliest. One farmer took out an entire school wing with dynamite killing 38 kids and 6 adults. I&#039;m not trying to compare or take away from any awful event. I grew up in South Los Angeles in South Gate which butts up to Watts and Compton. I&#039;ve had my share of drive by shootings and have seen first hand the devastation of guns. However...the vast majority of those guns are stolen or illegally obtained. I lived&nbsp; there for the 92 LA Riots. The Koreans went and bought enough guns for a small militia because their stores were being targeted by the looters/rioters. It was no secret that the African Americans and Asians didn&#039;t like each other...but that&#039;s besides the point. The odd thing is...there was little death. If those folks didn&#039;t arm themselves, they would have been slaughtered. And then the military/police/Nat Guard would have had to use deadly force to stop the slaughters.&nbsp; They shot their guns into the ground to discourage the rioters. Few were shot or hurt. I own an old .22 longrifle. I&#039;m not a gun guy. But I did see firsthand how guns deter violence. Guns/knives/sticks and stones require operators to do their deeds. They don&#039;t go off on their own.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="sortaisle, post: 1074538, member: 17605"] It's amazing how much Newtown is in the media. It deserves to be there for sure. But this happens in other countries every single day. It happens in Congo everyday. It happens in lots of places. Newtown wasn't even the deadliest school attack. The Bath Michigan school house attack was the deadliest. One farmer took out an entire school wing with dynamite killing 38 kids and 6 adults. I'm not trying to compare or take away from any awful event. I grew up in South Los Angeles in South Gate which butts up to Watts and Compton. I've had my share of drive by shootings and have seen first hand the devastation of guns. However...the vast majority of those guns are stolen or illegally obtained. I lived there for the 92 LA Riots. The Koreans went and bought enough guns for a small militia because their stores were being targeted by the looters/rioters. It was no secret that the African Americans and Asians didn't like each other...but that's besides the point. The odd thing is...there was little death. If those folks didn't arm themselves, they would have been slaughtered. And then the military/police/Nat Guard would have had to use deadly force to stop the slaughters. They shot their guns into the ground to discourage the rioters. Few were shot or hurt. I own an old .22 longrifle. I'm not a gun guy. But I did see firsthand how guns deter violence. Guns/knives/sticks and stones require operators to do their deeds. They don't go off on their own. [/QUOTE]

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