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Originally posted by warch
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I'm not for banning all guns. I'm for rational control of gun proliferation, better enforcement of gun sale laws and background checks. I'm for letting law enforcement decide, case by case, who can get a permit for concealed handguns.
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I think more gun education would be better.
I shot trap and skeet during high school for the local 4-H teams. So while other kids where learning about guns from the now governor of California, I was out getting hands on experience. You can't piece together the clay pigeons as nicely as the liquid terminator can reattach an arm.
No matter how hard we try the US can simply not legislate morality. Be it smoking, speeding, or gun control. No matter how many laws we pass we will not create a perfect society. What we can do is educate people. We can show them the truthful consequences of their actions.
Life is not a Mountain Dew commercial.
Maybe the media and hollywood are partially to blame for showing how cool Clint Eastwood is while he smokes a cigar and blazes his sixguns.
Maybe more people should listen to Folsum Prison Blues and listen to the regret johnny sang about knowing that unlike the train whistle he can never be free again cause he shot that man in reno just to watch him die, instead of (c)rap songs about busting a cap in somebody's azz cause they dissed you.
Maybe we need to put the 10 commandments back in school.
Maybe we need to do a lot of things, but I don't think stricter gun control laws is one of them.