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Old 04-24-2004, 01:07 AM   #57 (permalink)
Strange Famous
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Originally posted by BoomTruck
Amen.

As an evil gun-owning American, I will add a comment: Those 2 (as well as their accomplaices) broke numerous federal laws before they even set foot on school property. If you can logically explain to me how more laws would have stopped them, I will be more tham willing to listen.

And that's all I'm saying on that subject.

I got picked on mercilessly in high school. I got over it, I went on with my life.
Yes, very easily. The American people must be disarmed. The laws must be changed to make it criminal to own, sell, distribute or buy a gun. The goal is simply that there are no guns in America, we disarm the farmers, we disarm the police, we disarm the criminals, and we disarm the ordinary people - the only people who will be allowed to bare firearms of any kind will be the army.

And yes, the sociopaths may still try to go on the rampage with screwdrivers, or home made bombs, but we will make their job much harder because we will deny them access to instruments which are designed to kill people.

If their were no guns, if the only way to get a gun was to get it on the black market, and it cost at least $1500 and owning one was a federal crime... these two kids wouldnt have had the guns, the Columbine massacre wouldnt have happened, period, simple fact. The kids that died wouldnt be dead today. If we disarmed the people, those kids would still be alive.

But to most Americans it seems the right to own guns is more important than those kids lives, or all the other victimes lives... and of course most gun owners arent killers, most of them are perfectly decent law adiding people... but a gun is a tool designed to kill, and if it is widely distributed their will be more murders, we know this... the gun lobby doesnt want to know it, and that is why they are the parents wont shut up, they have become the conscience of America, they are the one's saying "well sure YOU never did any harm with your gun, but the fact you have it is the reason my child is dead, and how is it worth it?"

So of course the gun lobby want them to shut up, of course they dont want to hear it, but free speech is the American mantra, and you cannot silence the voice of your own collective conscience, because without an outlet for the collective guilt everyone would have to carry it in their heart.
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