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In reply to the discussion: All classroom doors should be retrofitted with locks. [View all]SheilaT
(23,156 posts)Take the guns away?
This is EXACTLY like teaching women to avoid being raped, rather than telling men it's not okay to rape.
Let's start with the real source of the problem, the fact that guns are far too readily available. Let's stop the gun apologists from telling us nothing can be done. Let's start NOW with real laws with teeth. You register your gun. You take safety training. You reregister every year or five. If a gun you owned is stolen from you, YOU are responsible for what happens with that gun. Make the responsibility of gun ownership actually mean something.
And those who are genuinely responsible gun owners have nothing to fear from these laws.
I'm getting to the point where I think it would be a very good idea for some authority to go door to door and actually confiscate guns.
And of course there will be bleating responses to my post that I just don't understand. But I do understand. It was the easy availability of guns that in the end caused what happened yesterday. Divorce, mental illness, personality disorder, all of those are just lame excuses. And locking classroom doors? Really? Take the fucking guns away.