task0778
Diamond Member
You show me a place that advertises itself as a gun-free zone and I'll show you a target just waiting for a terrorist or whacko nutjob to walk in and kill a bunch of people. Most of the times when a large number of people were shot and killed were times where there was nobody there to shoot back. We'll never know how many shootings/killings did not take place because the would-be shooter found out there would be somebody shooting back fairly quickly.
I also like the idea that many states are adopting to give police the authority to temporarily confiscate a person's guns until a determination can be made by a judge that you are not a danger to yourself or others if you are allowed to keep your weapons. Like that kid in Florida that shot all those kids at the school a few weeks before the school year ended, it's crazy to let a guy like that with so many red flags continue to keep his guns.
Other thing is, with some of these shootings the shooter got the weapons from someone else because they couldn't legally or financially get for themselves. So - I think we've got to hold people accountable for shootings done with their weapons even when they had no other involvement. Particularly a semi-auto weapon that can fire quite a few bullets in a very short time. Those weapons probably should be more closely accounted for than an ordinary rifle or pistol revolver. You might not be responsible for the shooting, but I do think you are responsible for the weapon used if it was yours and you didn't enough precautions to make sure it didn't fall into the wrong hands.
Are these things the definitive answer, and will they prevent all future shootings? NO. But there's no way and no solution that can guarantee that, the best we can do is reduce the number of shootings and reduce the number of casualties as much as possible. Some people don't like the idea of armed security guards in our schools, well I don't like the idea of some nutjob walking into a school with weapons, knowing nobody with a gun will shoot at him.
I also like the idea that many states are adopting to give police the authority to temporarily confiscate a person's guns until a determination can be made by a judge that you are not a danger to yourself or others if you are allowed to keep your weapons. Like that kid in Florida that shot all those kids at the school a few weeks before the school year ended, it's crazy to let a guy like that with so many red flags continue to keep his guns.
Other thing is, with some of these shootings the shooter got the weapons from someone else because they couldn't legally or financially get for themselves. So - I think we've got to hold people accountable for shootings done with their weapons even when they had no other involvement. Particularly a semi-auto weapon that can fire quite a few bullets in a very short time. Those weapons probably should be more closely accounted for than an ordinary rifle or pistol revolver. You might not be responsible for the shooting, but I do think you are responsible for the weapon used if it was yours and you didn't enough precautions to make sure it didn't fall into the wrong hands.
Are these things the definitive answer, and will they prevent all future shootings? NO. But there's no way and no solution that can guarantee that, the best we can do is reduce the number of shootings and reduce the number of casualties as much as possible. Some people don't like the idea of armed security guards in our schools, well I don't like the idea of some nutjob walking into a school with weapons, knowing nobody with a gun will shoot at him.