Andrew (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} fangio) wrote,@ 2006-10-04 10:00:00 |
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Guns don't kill people, people kill people...
A man in Pennsylvania kills 5 young girls at an Amish school before killing himself. He had mental problems ever since his daugther died just after being born 9 years ago as well issues from an incident where he claims he molested two young family members 20 years back.
While this incident is extremely tragic and being the third school shooting in just over a week, it does raise several issues. One of them being gun control. Below is a comment made by somone in the U.S.
It is this logic, combined with the powerful, both financially and politically, gun lobby that prevents guns from being taken off the streets. I wonder if the families of those children who were killed are in any way consoled with the fact that at least they still have FREEDOM.
A man in Pennsylvania kills 5 young girls at an Amish school before killing himself. He had mental problems ever since his daugther died just after being born 9 years ago as well issues from an incident where he claims he molested two young family members 20 years back.
While this incident is extremely tragic and being the third school shooting in just over a week, it does raise several issues. One of them being gun control. Below is a comment made by somone in the U.S.
The right to bear arms is a right that all free people should have. Gun laws do nothing other than allow the government to control your life, we don't allow them to control us in many other ways. You don't see people silently protesting our right to free speech, or any other freedoms we have. Our right to bear arms is part of our FREEDOM. If everyone else wants to be communist then so be it, but I'll hang on to my shotgun until I either die of old age or someone kills me, that's the price of freedom.
Jack, St. Paul
It is this logic, combined with the powerful, both financially and politically, gun lobby that prevents guns from being taken off the streets. I wonder if the families of those children who were killed are in any way consoled with the fact that at least they still have FREEDOM.
