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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 946051" data-attributes="member: 14668">Because intelligent people who rationally analyze the situation rather than hysterically reacting to it know what the FACTS are.The FACTS....are that a disturbed person who makes an intentional and PREMEDITATED decision to go shoot up a school and murder people is going to find a way to obtain a gun no matter WHAT sort of warm and fuzzy &quot;feel good&quot; laws are put in place about storage, trigger locks etc.There are an estimated 300 million guns owned in this country. They arent going to go away. If a criminal...or a mentally disturbed teenager....wants one badly enough, he will get one. So rather than wasting time advocating for yet MORE worthless laws and rules and restrictions, we as a society ought to be asking WHY these kids are making the choices that they are making in the first place.If the &quot;easy availability&quot; of guns is to blame for school shootings, why werent they happening in the 1940&#039;s or 50&#039;s when there were FAR FEWER gun laws and restrictions in place than there are today? In the 40&#039;s and 50&#039;s there was NO SUCH THING as &quot;background checks&quot; or &quot;waiting periods&quot;. You could buy guns at any hardware store. You could buy them at Sears or JC Pennys or even the local flea market.My father was a member of his high school&#039;s RIFLE TEAM in 1958. He and his teammates brought their .22 target rifles to school ON THE BUS with them on match days and left them in the closet in the principals office until after school when the bus would then take them and their rifles to the local National Guard armory where the matches were held. School shootings? UNHEARD OF.When I went to high school in the early 80&#039;s in rural Oregon, it was quite common during hunting season to see deer rifles in the gun racks of pickups that were driven to school by students. We would go hunting in the evenings after school. I had my own deer rifle at the age of 15, as did many of my friends. Guns were easily available. School shootings? UNHEARD OF.It is a waste of time to ask HOW. HOW is the easy part. What we NEED to ask as a society.... is WHY.Peace</blockquote>

[QUOTE="soberups, post: 946051, member: 14668"] Because intelligent people who rationally [I]analyze[/I] the situation rather than hysterically [I]reacting[/I] to it know what the FACTS are. The FACTS....are that a disturbed person who makes an intentional and PREMEDITATED decision to go shoot up a school and murder people is going to find a way to obtain a gun no matter WHAT sort of warm and fuzzy "feel good" laws are put in place about storage, trigger locks etc. There are an estimated 300 million guns owned in this country. They arent going to go away. If a criminal...or a mentally disturbed teenager....wants one badly enough, he [I]will[/I] get one. So rather than wasting time advocating for yet MORE worthless laws and rules and restrictions, we as a society ought to be asking WHY these kids are making the choices that they are making in the first place. If the "easy availability" of guns is to blame for school shootings, why werent they happening in the 1940's or 50's when there were FAR FEWER gun laws and restrictions in place than there are today? In the 40's and 50's there was NO SUCH THING as "background checks" or "waiting periods". You could buy guns at any hardware store. You could buy them at Sears or JC Pennys or even the local flea market. My father was a member of his high school's RIFLE TEAM in 1958. He and his teammates brought their .22 target rifles to school ON THE BUS with them on match days and left them in the closet in the principals office until after school when the bus would then take them [I]and[/I] their rifles to the local National Guard armory where the matches were held. School shootings? UNHEARD OF. When I went to high school in the early 80's in rural Oregon, it was quite common during hunting season to see deer rifles in the gun racks of pickups that were driven to school by students. We would go hunting in the evenings after school. I had my own deer rifle at the age of 15, as did many of my friends. Guns were[I] easily[/I] available. School shootings? UNHEARD OF. It is a waste of time to ask HOW. HOW is the easy part. What we NEED to ask as a society.... is [B]WHY[/B]. Peace [/QUOTE]

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