28 Dead After Shooting At Connecticut Elementary School

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Stabbings are popular here, even though a 14 yr old shot himself in the face at school (with a sawed-off shotgun I think) and we were put on lockdown at school when someone was walking around emotionally distraught with a rifle.

Hm.

Honestly, it's not the gun that kills (doesn't make the choice to kill.). It's just a tool. We're generally raised to look up to soldiers as deities but we look down to police officers. We see police officers daily, but unless you live with one, you don't see soldiers often, and never in action doing their job.

If guns are made illegal, that doesn't mean they will stop. Illegal weapons have no problem being sold to people (think of drugs, people literally smoke marijuana in front of cops). Alcohol isn't much a problem (NH state sells it themselves) but people who choose to drive while intoxicated are.

There are two ways to end a problem: Micromanage it (aka. police state) or manipulate(discourage) people to not buy them ("Think of the kids!"..oh wait, the kids in CT. Heh.)

I think it's the education system. Kids believe what their parents tell them and live by what they're told. To give you an idea of my school, administrators and many teachers talk to you as if you're in 8 years old and that they are superior to you. Of course, my mom is Madea. Students hate the school and the teachers not because of the work, but because of the treatment. Graduates would agree with you. We have anarchists (+those potsmokers) and frequent protests because of this. Does anyone care? Nope. We pretend we didn't see it. We pretend we don't see anything. Whatever bothers us, we simply complain about it. What else can we do? Now here is where the thought of using a weapon might start to form. People mourn for American shootings (they don't care about anything outside the border unless it directly affects us, I try to be worldly). People realize that people only care when you/someone else is dead and it's all over the news. It's all in how you're raised. We do have anti-bullying programs in school but teachers generally don't adhere to them until they are reported to the school board. The board only does something about it for publicity. After the teacher is reported they become all sowwie and crap like that. (Ohhh I'm sorry. I didn't realize what was going on.)

The anti-bullying policies only keep us away from each other. Cliques are rampant, but no action. They battle on Facebook now.

Quote:Does anyone care? Nope. We pretend we didn't see it. We pretend we don't see anything. Whatever bothers us, we simply complain about it. What else can we do?

That's the ignorance many outsiders (like Europe) see from Americans. Americans like to live a happy, easy life. Whatever bothers them is either spewed out to a psychologist or locked away like nuclear waste. Ignorance means we refuse to learn what we don't like. (I don't need to explain that one) So, this means we turn to guns. With a gun, we can almost instantly remove a threat.

Of course, removing one means matching or overpowering that threat. If one has that power, they can be a threat. The idea behind removing guns, is to remove any possible threats. That would mean we would also need to remove any steak knives, thumb tacks, cars, plastic bags, alprazolam, dioxin, bicycles, textbooks, computers, socialization, people, religious texts, heavy machinery, motorcycles, forks, coffee tables, nightstands, lamps, lampshades, Internet, paper, writing utensils, glasses, gasoline, air fresheners, cleaning agents, nails, nailguns, drills, and high heel shoes (thin heel). Imagine all of the threats we encounter in our daily lives? Removing it doesn't end it. It only inconveniences the problem and makes it smarter. The threat is the external influences that make us who we are.

It's not the tool that's dangerous. It's what uses it.