We see this tragic event in Florida stirring up so much attention, yet.......

I see folks jockeying to promote something they want.

Yet.....???

I think if you step back and read the comments, the news stories, all the associated coverage of this sad happening, dragging the past, forward, as relevant, predicting the future, based on the present, unless......

One constant element, is visible, on display,  through all this energy....

It won't bring back one child.
It won't wipe away one tear.
It won't erase history.
It won't fix the future.

Yet, its fostered.
It's justified.
It's, accepted......

It might very well be the cause.

It causes ill will.
It causes blindness.
It causes fear.
It destroys all who use it.
It breeds more of itself.....

It's a choice to empower it.
To use it.
To allow it.

We ALL hold, the fix.

T And T Garage wrote on 02/15/18 at 12:39:08:

" ... who needs an AR15?  Who needs thousands of rounds of ammunition?  Who needs more than a couple guns in total? ..."

Its Perfectaly Clear,
NO  one needs a 500.00 Golf Driver.
When a 50.00 one from a mart-mart  will work just as well.

No one needs a, Red Car.

Don't need Several Fast food restaurants in a town.
They Only need ONE.

Don't need 100's of brands of beer,
10 will certainty do.  

And the list can go ON, and ON, and ON, and ON.
 
  (After all, who needs a, 'Choice', when a  'he/she', can make the decision for you)

This:
"...  The Second Amendment is NOT intended to allow nfettered/unlimited gun ownership.  If you want to follow it to the letter, then you must be part of a well regulated militia - period...."

If you do not know, WHAT, the primary reason was.
I guess you don't know much.
  (Oh Wait, to late, guess everybody here, already knows that)

Was gonna start another subject, then saw this.
So will answer.

A, ‘FIX’  idea on Guns.
Which may, fix, other things also.

For the last 34, have been ‘certified’, and 4 years before that, ‘helped’. With FSTC, (Firearms Safety Training Class).

Years ago, in a 30 Mile radius, their were 15 Classes, of  50 (+/-) students, and some areas 2 times a year.
Today, 8 classes, average 25 students, and most once a year.

   (This is mostly 11-14 year olds)
30+ years ago, started class, with:
 ‘How many here, have shot a firearm”
95%  (+/-) would raise their hand, out of 50-60 students.
Last year, was the FIRST  time the % was  0.
  (22 Students)
Last year, 2%, year before that 3%, and going down almost every year for the last 20 years.

So, the, ’TEACHING’, that firearms, are a, Sport, Recreation, Defense, and are, NOT BAD !
Has gone, Down.   Why?
I believe, it is because, the, ‘Brady Bunch’, and Fairy Sprinkling Snowflake, type of Lies.
Where, Parents/Kids, are TAUGHT,  GUNS, are  BAD.

So Now something that is, BAD, that makes people inclined to one want to Play with it even More.
       (I hear a, ‘What’, from Chicago)
Think:  Your 12,  You know where the keys to the car are,  do you think, you are just going to hop in and drive to the D.Q. ?
  (Yes some do, but not very many)
Your 12, you Know, their is a Chain Saw in the ahead, you going to take it out and cut down that tree all by yourself. ?
Your 12, their is a elect power Wood Saw, in the garage. Ya gust gonna grab it, and start cutting boards with it. ?
     (Most Probably, not, in most cases)

Your 12,  (or 22), and have NEVER  gone to a FSTC.
You find a ‘gun’.  The, ‘FORBIDDEN” Fruit
    (Hey, hows that, ‘war on Drugs’, going)
Most Probably, WILL, in most cases, play with it, not knowing nothing about it.

So, KNOWING, about a firearm, understanding it, respecting it, and NOT, being, ‘Afraid’ of it,  BECAUSE YOU ARE TO TO BE.

Their is NO, reset, button on a Gun.

And part of this class it to Know and UNDERSTAND, Mortality.
Then, their will be less of it, from someone who does NOT, understand it.

But, Hey, just keep, taking away Freedom,
and Knowledge, and Education, from Citizens,
     Like in Il.
That, will Stop, ALL Gun Crime  !
 
      (What you say, it Hasn’t ?)
 Oh, Must be someone else’s fault

Cry all you want, but I've WATCHED society come unhinged.
We took God out of school.
We made destroying life in the womb
Normal.
Children got uncontrollable.
We enacted
Zero Tolerance
How's it working out?
Hate what you want, but American society, as it was, worked a lot better.

Eegore wrote on 02/15/18 at 17:41:55:


True.

raydawg wrote on 02/15/18 at 17:12:01:


The Constitution is amendable for that reason.
The founders foresaw that times would change.
What would they think of kids killing kids with assault rifles?...

WebsterMark wrote on 02/16/18 at 08:50:18:

I agree...  The age restriction might be a good place to start,.. also,...
nobody needs these high capacity weapons... They are intended for "assault" not defence...

I just can't believe that
Gun Free Zone
sign didn't work.