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In reply to the discussion: "Gun culture" begins with parents. Any law that doesn't restrict parents won't change gun culture. [View all]Kilgore
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"Gun culture" begins with parents. Any law that doesn't restrict parents won't change gun culture. [View all]
ancianita
Oct 2015
OP
I didn't know I was thinking along those lines or even to go that far. I think you know that I'm
ancianita
Oct 2015
#8
I admit to the impulse, but the civilized side of me prevails. I'm still trying to get at the source
ancianita
Oct 2015
#13
No, for the most part I agree with the concept of "Gun culture" and what's wrong with it.
Decoy of Fenris
Oct 2015
#14
If you reread the OP, you'll see that I'm not at all talking about taking away the tool. At all.
ancianita
Oct 2015
#16
Again, I'm with you in spirit, but what you're proposing will never end rampages like Oregon.
Decoy of Fenris
Oct 2015
#18
Never? You'll really never be able to claim that until a parent gun training course is nationally
ancianita
Oct 2015
#20
To list one NRA training course, I'm sorry, but that doesn't support your claim of "hundreds" of
ancianita
Oct 2015
#33
What I was getting at, rather in a roundabout way, was that each range runs their own.
Decoy of Fenris
Oct 2015
#37
I'm talking about the training of tool use morality for children. If no one can train morality into
ancianita
Oct 2015
#41
We've been through this. I implied that having total freedom doesn't mean that any of the free
ancianita
Oct 2015
#61
I owned and learned how to use guns, too, but we didn't play with or have portraits done with them.
ancianita
Oct 2015
#9
My brother has taught gun and hunting safety training for the DNR for 27 years.
Snobblevitch
Oct 2015
#19
Gun deaths can't even be considered a public health issue?? THAT is part of gun culture, too.
ancianita
Oct 2015
#22
Yet, the government still both conducts and sponsors significant amounts of research
branford
Oct 2015
#23
Fair enough. I wasn't aware. I still think it's been a public health issue, not just a criminal
ancianita
Oct 2015
#24
Constitutional words are either descriptive or prescriptive.Lawyers can argue the prescriptive here.
ancianita
Oct 2015
#27
Sorry I missed your qualifications. Yes, the popular support part is what I'm concerned with here.
ancianita
Oct 2015
#35
Your description is clear. An indisputable truth. That said, gun culture as part of American culture
ancianita
Oct 2015
#38
In fairness, and admitting than any violent crime, with or without firearms, is a tragedy,
branford
Oct 2015
#40
It takes dwarves 1/100th the time to tear down a building it takes architects and skilled workers
ancianita
Oct 2015
#46
I would simply note that there's nothing that prevents academics outside the government
branford
Oct 2015
#28
No. But I was just mad. Mass killings, even from such slight numbers of gun users, is soul killing.
ancianita
Oct 2015
#42
Few, particularly pro-gun rights Democrats on DU, are against any gun regulations at all.
branford
Oct 2015
#48
We HAVE to keep trying to implement regulations that do have demonstrable effects. We have to.
ancianita
Oct 2015
#50
Minimum gun safety and proficiency training is something that I personally support,
branford
Oct 2015
#51
That is, indeed, the tedious framing. My framing concentrates on national, law-based policy.
ancianita
Oct 2015
#53
I'd be stupid to think that. But the sloppy minority spoil it for the careful majority, don't they.
ancianita
Oct 2015
#54
So I'm looking at the 3rd pic of all the little kids holding a gun & I'm wondering,
CrispyQ
Oct 2015
#59