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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 1081345" data-attributes="member: 14668">First of all, we need to face up to the uncomfortable truth that every one of these massacres has taken place in a so-called &quot;gun free&quot; zone, and every single victim has been unarmed and helpless. Obviously you cant arm children, but you can arm school staff and/or provide some sort of armed security. Silly, feel-good &quot;gun free&quot; zones only work in the minds of naive liberals.Second of all, we need to adequately fund and support mental health services for people who need them.Thirdly, we need to require that any politician who wants to pass laws about guns must first take a basic class in order to learn about guns. Half of these people have never handled a weapon in their life and dont even know what an &quot;assault weapon&quot; actually is. They are wanting to ban entire classes of guns based upon cosmetic features alone, as an emotional response to a tragedy, even though the features they want to ban have nothing to do with the lethality of the weapon itself. In other words...&quot;the guns look icky and scary so we need to ban them so that we will feel safer.&quot;Our media needs to step up too. If you are a movie star who has made millions of dollars starring in movies that glorify gun violence, its a bit hypocritical for you use your fame and influence to turn around and blame guns and law-abiding gun owners such as myself for that same violence....especially when you live in a gated compound protected by guards with guns that you would deny to us &quot;common&quot; folk. I&#039;d also like to see some restraint from the media in regards to uber-violent video games. And perhaps we as a society should demand that our media stop printing the names and photos of those who commit acts of mass murder, in order to deny them and those who would imitate them the fame and publicity that they so desperately seek.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="soberups, post: 1081345, member: 14668"] First of all, we need to face up to the uncomfortable truth that [I]every one[/I] of these massacres has taken place in a so-called "gun free" zone, and every single victim has been [I]unarmed and helpless[/I]. Obviously you cant arm children, but you [I]can[/I] arm school staff and/or provide some sort of armed security. Silly, feel-good "gun free" zones only work in the minds of naive liberals. Second of all, we need to adequately fund and support mental health services for people who need them. Thirdly, we need to require that any politician who wants to pass laws about guns must first take a basic class in order to [I]learn[/I] about guns. Half of these people have never handled a weapon in their life and dont even know what an "assault weapon" actually is. They are wanting to ban entire classes of guns based upon cosmetic features alone, as an emotional response to a tragedy, even though the features they want to ban have [I]nothing[/I] to do with the lethality of the weapon itself. In other words..."the guns look icky and scary so we need to ban them so that we will [I]feel[/I] safer." Our media needs to step up too. If you are a movie star who has made millions of dollars starring in movies that glorify gun violence, its a bit hypocritical for you use your fame and influence to turn around and blame guns and law-abiding gun owners such as myself for that [I]same[/I] violence....especially when you live in a gated compound protected by guards with guns that you would deny to us "common" folk. I'd also like to see some restraint from the media in regards to uber-violent video games. And perhaps we as a society should demand that our media stop printing the names and photos of those who commit acts of mass murder, in order to deny them and those who would imitate them the fame and publicity that they so desperately seek. [/QUOTE]

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