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Originally Posted by Love2Swim
Why is this thread still going? It is clearly political. And for the record, I've played golf with many retired teachers, and they all scoff at the idea of guns in schools. We need better gun laws, universal background checks, better gun safety training, and we need to outlaw military type guns. Who really needs to own an AK-47? Require mental health professionals to report people who might be dangerous. Enforce laws that restrict gun access for people under domestic violence restraining orders. Ban large capacity ammunition magazines. And as Velvet mentioned above, give training to teachers to identify the problem kids who might have a propensity for gun violence, and work with the kids to possibly prevent a mass killing.
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Nobody NEEDS an AK47 just like nobody NEEDS a Super Bike that will do 185 MPH or a ZRI Corvette that will do 220 MPH but in America if you want one and it is legal than it's our own choice.. According to the FBI gun database website out of 60 THOUSAND gun deaths in 2016 less than 500 were caused by a "military" style weapon so wouldn't banning them be akin to banning Ibuprofen in an effort to curb the opioid overdose death crisis in America? Maybe we should concentrate more on the suicide victims (2/3 of the total gun deaths) and gang/drug related another 15 thousand and watch our gun death totals drop like a rock over time. Finally how about we NEVER post the name or picture of a Mass Killer, isn't that what they want.... notoriety, don't give that to them.. Just my humble opinion..