My mom and I were talking about the shooting on the campus of Northern Illinois University in DeKalb County, Illinois, and I asked her how we might put an end to these college campus shootings.
My mother suggested that it might not be such a bad idea to allow students to pack a pistol on campus. She said, and I’m paraphrasing here, that folks wanting to act a fool on campus would think twice if they walked into a lecture hall and all of a sudden had 150 magnums, glocks, and .38s trained on them. I think she might have been joking; at least I hope she was considering I’ve never heard that 61 year old lady use the word “glock” in my life (that cracked me up, by the way).
But, I think it the tragic events in DeKalb, Illinois raises some interesting questions. In light of the fact that there are some crazy people out there who might just lose it and decide to shoot a place up, do we need more or less gun control? Do people need to be armed on the off chance that they may find themselves in a situation where they need to take out someone who’s on a shooting spree? Would doing so promote vigilantism?
Do we need bills like House Bill 89 which would allow Georgians to carry guns in church and publicly owned or operated buildings (which I believe would include Georgia’s public colleges & universities)?
What say you?
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Tommy,
You’re welcome.
However, in the future, I would highly recommend not to threaten Jace with any form of conventional weaponry.
He’s a self-described mouth breathing hick, and he’s packin’.
Icarus no worries I resemble that remark.
Tommy,
This is your chance to apologize. Your last chance.
Tommy, What’s a Mitt Romney type gun owner???
At least I’m obviously not the type gun owner you are…the type that has to have a gun to compensate for brain size and you know what else.
Roy,
Have you ever thought that maybe…just maybe, the media folks in Europe are just like the media folks here? That is, chock-full of pathological liars who consider it “okay” to not tell the truth, the whole truth?
I’m referring to your first comment regarding those other nations thta have strict gun control, and you state their level of violence is quite low? Did you ever consider that their media IS NOT FREELY operated, and maybe they do not report the way our media reports things?
That, as an example, the main media arm in Great Britain is the BBC, a government financed, government-run media outlet. They aren’t allowed to color outside the lines over there…they have to report what the government decides is trusting enough to report.
Also…I seem to recall several bomb drops occuring in London from terrorists who would go into a crowded marketplace and drop a bomb and leave. Would you rather have our country turn into a country like that where we have massive amounts of death occuring because the bombers might have been would-be gun toters who would have killed far fewer people with a gun than they killed with a bomb?
Noting happens in a vacuum, Roy. Stop assuming that the USA is screwed-up in our freedoms. There are a lot more frequent events of terror that occurs over in European countries than occurs here. Ponder why that might be.
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