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Your premise is flawed...., How many dead kids are an acceptable number? | 483 comments | Create New Account
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Your premise is flawed...., How many dead kids are an acceptable number?
Authored by: Kilz on Sunday, December 23 2012 @ 03:33 PM EST
Your premise is flawed. That we need to get rid of semi- automatics to remove the likelihood of a repeat of the school killings.
I on the other hand believe that people who target children as murder victims can kill regardless of the availability of semi-automatics.
A couple of revolvers and 4 or 5 speed loaders will still kill 25-30 kids in the same amount of time.
Another problem is that a deranged person with a machete or a samurai sword could kill 5-10 people in 10 minutes. More if they are children. Those that would point out the fact that less would be killed should answer the question" How many dead school kids are we willing to say is an acceptable number?". For me, 1 is to many.

If on the other hand you want to actually protect the children in the school instead of pushing laws to make you feel safe start asking whats the best way to protect even 1 kid getting killed. That only happens by guarding the schools better. The best way to do that IMHO is at least 1 armed police officer stationed in each and every school. Because no matter what you think of to ban and take away a person that wants to kill kids will find a way to kill if the schools are easy targets.

Those that complain it will cost to much to guard the schools, how much do you think you would be willing to pay if you knew the child that was going to be killed was yours?

[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]

Gun bans work to disarm the law abiding. Period.
Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, December 23 2012 @ 11:28 PM EST

Anyway constitutions can be changed. The right to bear arms is an "amendment" after all.
Stupid question: Why was that amendment brought in in the first place?

ie why was there a need to have the right to bear arms?

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