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Originally Posted by Byte1

Just an observation:
Seems like whenever someone does not like guns, they wish to ban them for all.
Whenever someone does not believe in GOD, the wish to ban religion for all.
Whenever someone believes that laws cannot be enforced, they want to eliminate them.
If booze cannot be eliminated, then legalize it so that it can be taxed
If dope cannot be eliminated, then legalize it so that it can be taxed.

Instead of protecting the children, use them as a device to ban guns. Instead of securing the schools, go out and take everyone else's right to own firearms.
Since someone is under 21 committing a crime, then make the legal age of ownership 21 or above. Disregard the fact that we have had millions of young men, aged 16-21 serve our country honorably.
We do not believe that young people should be trusted, yet we send them off to war so that the rest of us don't have to go. We send them off to war and then tell them that when they get back, they cannot have a beer with an "adult." Send them to war and train them to use firearms, and then tell them that they cannot purchase a firearm in order to hunt when they come back. They can't be trusted in society because they are too immature to be trusted with our citizen's safety.
Like I said before and will continue to say it, to protect the children we must defend them from evil. To protect them from evil, we must fortify their schools when we are not there to protect them. You cannot predict and punish a crime that has not occurred. There is no "Minority Report" where we can arrest someone before they commit an act of violence. Good people have mental problems too. The type of weapon does not matter when it comes to violence, period.
What is so hard about installing a ten foot fence around a public school and placing an armed guard of police officer there to check those the enter? What is really so bad or awful about allowing school employees that have CCW to carry a pocket pistol that is never seen and never removed from their pocket? How much would it cost to install cameras in the schools?
Or, is it just more convenient for certain folks to blame all violence on guns so that they can ban them because they don't like them and do not want anyone else to own them?

May I borrow this for future reasonable discussions? Thanks in Advance.