Swifty Morgan
member
Following the shootings in Texas today, I have a question: why aren't 2A supporters campaigning hard to keep guns secure? Why aren't securing guns and publicizing the effort top priorities? We ought to be getting ahead of this issue instead of hiding from it and reacting. Eddie Eagle isn't enough.
Some of the shootings we've seen were perpetrated by people who, all of us agree, weren't supposed to have guns. Adam Lanza's mom left an AR in a $200, 80-pound "safe" in a spare bedroom, and she bought him his own weapons even though he was mentally defective. The latest shooter is 17, so it sure looks like someone dropped the ball there. Dylan Klebold was 17 and got his guns illegally from imbeciles who were older. Nikolas Cruz, a locally notorious idiot, had his guns taken away, and his dad gave them back!
If we're going to tell the world they should leave our high-capacity rifles alone, shouldn't we be making as much noise as possible, pushing each other to keep guns out of the hands of mental cases and unsupervised kids (especially weird kids who post creepy things on social media)? If the world saw us getting vocal about this, policing ourselves, it might be harder for them to justify butting in.
Right now, they see us raising hell about AR-15's, bump stocks and magazines, but they don't see us agitating to get each other to behave responsibly without gun control.
A woman who lived with a mentally abnormal, maladjusted, highly intelligent son should not have had guns on the premises, especially in a safe you can break into with a spoon. As for taking him shooting and buying him his own guns...words fail me. Shooting is not acceptable therapy for mental cases who have strange outbursts and can't relate to other human beings. The Second Amendment isn't for everybody. Some people are better off giving up their rights than keeping guns in homes they share with mentally ill relations.
I think we ought to be making noise about this and taking the lead. It's always better to regulate yourself than to wait for someone else to do it, because they will eventually step in, and they'll do it in ways you don't like.
We should be pushing each other to get safes, put locks on guns we're not using if kids live in our houses, take guns away from screwy relatives, and so on. We ought to inform on people we know have no business with guns. It beats sitting back and reacting when they shoot up malls.
Some of the shootings we've seen were perpetrated by people who, all of us agree, weren't supposed to have guns. Adam Lanza's mom left an AR in a $200, 80-pound "safe" in a spare bedroom, and she bought him his own weapons even though he was mentally defective. The latest shooter is 17, so it sure looks like someone dropped the ball there. Dylan Klebold was 17 and got his guns illegally from imbeciles who were older. Nikolas Cruz, a locally notorious idiot, had his guns taken away, and his dad gave them back!
If we're going to tell the world they should leave our high-capacity rifles alone, shouldn't we be making as much noise as possible, pushing each other to keep guns out of the hands of mental cases and unsupervised kids (especially weird kids who post creepy things on social media)? If the world saw us getting vocal about this, policing ourselves, it might be harder for them to justify butting in.
Right now, they see us raising hell about AR-15's, bump stocks and magazines, but they don't see us agitating to get each other to behave responsibly without gun control.
A woman who lived with a mentally abnormal, maladjusted, highly intelligent son should not have had guns on the premises, especially in a safe you can break into with a spoon. As for taking him shooting and buying him his own guns...words fail me. Shooting is not acceptable therapy for mental cases who have strange outbursts and can't relate to other human beings. The Second Amendment isn't for everybody. Some people are better off giving up their rights than keeping guns in homes they share with mentally ill relations.
I think we ought to be making noise about this and taking the lead. It's always better to regulate yourself than to wait for someone else to do it, because they will eventually step in, and they'll do it in ways you don't like.
We should be pushing each other to get safes, put locks on guns we're not using if kids live in our houses, take guns away from screwy relatives, and so on. We ought to inform on people we know have no business with guns. It beats sitting back and reacting when they shoot up malls.