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caniff · Joined: 03 Feb 2004 Location: All over the map

What do you wanna do? Close the barn doors after the horses are already out?

CentralCali · Joined: 17 May 2007

If you're going to make snide comments about the country, perhaps you should (a) read the entire article first, and then (b) provide a link to it so others could see if your comments had that much pertinence to the issue.

And you might also want to remember that each state in the US passes its own gun laws. There are certain federal prohibitions but, for the most part, gun possession is an issue for state legislation.

blaseblasphemener · Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 6:41 am Post subject:

nicholas_chiasson · Joined: 14 Jun 2007 Location: Samcheok

this thread title is not accurate
-bringing guns to school---not new
I knew a guy who said in deer season all the kids had shotguns and slugs in their cars(16,17 year olds drive in the US) and went out hunting after class. This was in the 1960's though, in upstate PA. But they never shot anybody. Quite clearly shooting people because you're ticked is a problem in modern culture, not having guns.

Czarjorge · Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 7:43 am Post subject:

The small town I went to grade school in (I moved away for jr. high and high school) actually had a hunting class for Juniors and Seniors. It was taken in lieu of gym. My uncle taught the class until 2002. They had rifles in the school building. Small towns are crazy.

W.T.Carl · Joined: 16 Jan 2003

I live in one of those "small towns". Crazy is not the word I would use, more like safe, polite and civilized. Most of my friends, cousins got their first firearms at age 12, as did I. Up until recently, you rarely locked your doors. And the last murder was about 20 years ago when a guy STABBED another guy who he caught doing his wife. An armed society is a polite society.

mistermasan · Joined: 20 Sep 2007 Location: 10+ yrs on Dave's ESL cafe

golly, my religious run high school had a rifle range next to the rec room. kids shooting guns pretty much nonstop since 1924. never had a problem.
AMDG

Ya-ta Boy · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994

W.T.Carl · Joined: 16 Jan 2003

It says nothing about a "state militia". It says "militia". Militia: Any male citizen over the age of 16 with a firearm. Look it up.

Gopher · Joined: 04 Jun 2005

The Constitution recognizes the right to bear arms. It remains a disputed issue in American politics, however.

This notwithstanding, each state passes its own laws re: concealed weapons. Like so many others on the far left, OP shows a disdain for a state's legal, legislative choices when they clash with his dogma about how the world should be and how its people should vote and act.

cbclark4 · Joined: 20 Aug 2006 Location: Masan

Here is the link the OP plagerized.

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/US/02/20/cnnu.guns/index.html

Gopher · Joined: 04 Jun 2005

Plagiarized? OP presents the story as an excerpt from CNN.

Ya-ta Boy · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994

Yes, I'm sure it says somewhere that any 16-year old with a gun fits under the definition of a 'well-regulated militia'. Very Happy

Perhaps in Charlton Heston's wetdreams.

But that's OK, WT. If you need a gun to take on the 9-year olds at the mall, that's your business.

nicholas_chiasson · Joined: 14 Jun 2007 Location: Samcheok

-for the record Finland has pretty easy gun(ok not handguns but..) access, and they just had their first school shooting. When will people realize bullying and mental torture of kids is WORSE than it was 20 years ago? Its not the guns, its the hyper social competition of jocks vs. nerds. Call a kid gay...and YOU get suspended. Call a kid a 'loser nerd who plays magic the gathering' and nothing happens to you. Obviously our 'compassionate society' is driving a element to desperation.