It seems no matter how many times somebody brings this up, the pieces aren't put together on it. People always want somebody to blame when a gun related tragedy occurs, especially when kids are involved, understandable, but let's put blame where it belongs. And who is that? Sorry, I don't buy it's the people selling guns for not having tight enough laws or whatever. Let's think about this, who here grew up in say the 50s and 60s? How common were guns? Who grew up in a house with them or knew somebody who did? And hell, who here actually learned how to use them before they were an adult? Maybe not here specifically but a lot of young people growing up at that time probably did, right? Ah but nobody took them to school to blow anybody away even though they had such easy access to them, did they? Why is that? Let's see...perhaps because their parents taught them how to be safe and responsible with them. It wasn't this modern 'BAD! DON'T TOUCH!' mentality, or if it was, they knew WHY not to touch it, because they knew just how dangerous they could be and knew it was something for adults to handle.
Now, this is one of those broken record subjects, we can go round and round on what everybody thinks, and most people will always have the same answers regardless. But we do know this, it is NOT just a matter of kids having access to guns that they kill other kids and even adults with them. After all if that was all it took, why didn't Annie Oakley's whole generation shoot each other instead of hunting the animals for food like they were trained to? I mean they were kids, and kids are irrational and their brains aren't fully developed and they don't know right from wrong, they can't appreciate the consequences of their actions, blah blah blah. And yet they knew not to use their guns on other people, why is that?
I think most of us can agree, people who are taught gun safety and responsibility at a young age are LESS likely to be these trigger happy nut job teens who go kill someone at their school because they're mad at them. Just like people who were taught responsible drinking as kids usually didn't grow up to be lushes. And yet for all this that seems obvious, people still think the gun just BEING there is answer enough for why these things happen. Well, I can't speak for anyone else but I don't buy it.
Now, this is one of those broken record subjects, we can go round and round on what everybody thinks, and most people will always have the same answers regardless. But we do know this, it is NOT just a matter of kids having access to guns that they kill other kids and even adults with them. After all if that was all it took, why didn't Annie Oakley's whole generation shoot each other instead of hunting the animals for food like they were trained to? I mean they were kids, and kids are irrational and their brains aren't fully developed and they don't know right from wrong, they can't appreciate the consequences of their actions, blah blah blah. And yet they knew not to use their guns on other people, why is that?
I think most of us can agree, people who are taught gun safety and responsibility at a young age are LESS likely to be these trigger happy nut job teens who go kill someone at their school because they're mad at them. Just like people who were taught responsible drinking as kids usually didn't grow up to be lushes. And yet for all this that seems obvious, people still think the gun just BEING there is answer enough for why these things happen. Well, I can't speak for anyone else but I don't buy it.
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