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at New Life Church....a church member who volunteers as a security guard, shot and killed ..
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thats odd. a church with armed volunteer security guards.
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I'm saying that those who would say that the odds of their family being tortured, murdered, and mutilated are so low that they don't even bother considering it should be insane
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guess i'm insane then.
i dont think believe that owning a gun would make any difference. first off, the gun would probably be stashed away somewhere in the house. if someone was breaking in to harm myself or my wife (we dont have children), chances are they would get me before i got the gun. if i was so paranoid that i kept the gun handy at all times, i probably shouldnt have one.
furthermore, the odds of someone doing that are probably the same as me winning a $150million+ lottery jackpot. i have no solid numbers but the occurances of both in my area are the same. 0.
my attitude towards gun ownership might admittedly be different if i lived in a high crime area. it might not. i dont know and i'm not moving to find out.
i seriously dont believe that more guns are the answer. these shootings are random events scattered across the country.
what needs to be done is improvements in the area of mental health. long term hospitals are a thing of the past. insurers dont pay. the short term hospitals dont take people without insurance. mental health workers are grossly underpaid and overworked. if resources were available, this kid may not have slipped through the cracks and got the help he needed.