[ugotme]

Originally Posted by CFrance

I agree with you on all points. However, you cannot teach a child with asbergers or autism respect. They are mentally disabled. Your points speak to what to teach a normal child, not one with a severe disability.

I do have to question, however, why this mother had these guns in her house with a volatile child living there. She took him out of the school system and home-schooled him because he was not able to work socially within the school system. Children with aspergers can be very emotionally unstable. Yet one report said she took him to target practice with her.

Also... where did these deadly explosive bullets come from? If the mother just had these guns because she enjoyed target practice, why would she have these kinds of bullets? And if she didn't, and the kid obtained them somewhere, where and how?

Just my questions.

Good questions !

Hard for me to rationalize - not being in that situation. However, I would like to "think" that if my son/daughter had issues I would lock up my guns so no one but me could get to them. Of course all of this assumes that you, as a parent, recognize the problem your child has.

As far as the bullets - do not know if they were hers and not sure why she would have them. If he got them elsewhere - who knows?

[Jim&Fran]

Remember when there were armed guards in every bank? That didn't deter bank robbery, in fact most of the guards were wounded or killed during a robbery. Having armed gards posted in or around schools can't guarantee safety of anykind. Our society is wholey a soft target.
Indians at The Little Big Horn weren't supposed to have repeating rifles either, tell that to Custer and his trained soldiers. if someone is determined to do harm to innocent children or adults it's only a matter of time before another method other than firearms wii be used.
If you want to remove certain kinds of firearms go right ahead. In the future when attacks continue to massacre us using a different method can I ask for my guns back to protect myself?
Fat chance........

[scottiee]

I think all of us can agree that something or a few things must be done..Not just one or two. Maybe a 10 round clip,true mental health screening, assualt weapon band,armed teachers,in short everything must be talked about. My own feeling is NOTHING will stop it some of these things will slow it. Obama is right

[janmcn]

NBC and ABC News are reporting that Dick's Sporting Goods is pulling all it's semi-automatic weapons from it's shelves. They apparently aren't waiting for congress to act, but are taking this action on their own. Good for them.

[Taltarzac725]

Originally Posted by janmcn

NBC and ABC News are reporting that Dick's Sporting Goods is pulling all it's semi-automatic weapons from it's shelves. They apparently aren't waiting for congress to act, but are taking this action on their own. Good for them.

That's a great development. When I was trying to get a really big focus on the problem of lack of access to practical information through libraries for victims of violent crimes I wrote everyone I could think of who might be affected by such violence. I wrote a huge number of Hollywood studios enough so that I got told to get an agent. Companies like Publix's headquarters as well as a huge number of other companies. The NRA, the National Education Association, the NFL Commissioner as well as those of all the other major sports leagues, prominent best seller writers, comedians, various celebrities in almost every field, and everyone else I could think of who might take a look at my thousands of e-mails and snail mails. I kind of made a part time job of it even though no one was paying me for it.

I did get the Western Interstate Commission on Higher Education to forgive a stipend grant based on this work I did from home computers in Florida and from a house earlier from California. The stipend grant was for working in librarianship in the State of Nevada for a set amount of time.

I do think we can make a huge difference in solving the problem of violence in the US if we all raise our voices and do something like writing your Representatives, sign petitions, etc.

Do think education is the key to solving it as well as getting weapons meant for soldiers off our streets.

[CFrance]

Here is an interesting interactive article from the New York Times about what it takes to buy a rifle in Connecticut without having a background check, and how to get ammunition for it. Connecticut?s Rules for Purchasing This Gun - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com

On NPR's Dianne Rehm Show this morning, the point was made that for any gun control laws to be effective, they must be made at the federal level so that they apply to all states across the board. As it stands now, for instance, if someone is living in a state with very strict gun laws, they simply need to get online or cross state borders to a state with a more lax set of laws.