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The Spokane County Sheriff blames everything but guns for school shooting. DUH! We KNOW guns are always innocent bystanders don't we?

Posted - September 15, 2017
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  • 46117
    Well there is a bigger culprit.

      September 15, 2017 10:30 AM MDT
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  • 35566
    A gun is neither innocent or guilty. It is an inanimate object....
    I have never seen a gun walk in a shoot anyone or anything.
      September 15, 2017 11:23 AM MDT
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  • 46117
    So is cancer.  It takes a body to let it do its work.

    Cancer is harmless unless something activates it.  So, do you want cancer in your body?  It isn't going to do anything.  Unless you do something to aggravate it.

    Can you even equate this with your argument?  No.  Of course not.

    Dangerous things need to be held at bay.  For what reason? Because we need to protect not pretend and deny. This post was edited by WM BARR . =ABSOLUTE TRASH at September 16, 2017 6:46 AM MDT
      September 15, 2017 11:28 AM MDT
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  • 6023

    There were thousands of guns in schools everyday prior to the 1968 Gun Control Act.
    High schools had shooting teams.  So did the Boy Scouts and 4H.  Kids brought firearms in, due to hunting before/after school.

    (And bullying was far more common, and tolerated.)

    So why weren't school shootings common?
    Maybe because students were more educated on them, rather than some "boogy man" that they couldn't even pretend to carry.
    Maybe because there was more discipline - both at home, and in schools.

    Maybe we need to look back, and see what changed.

      September 15, 2017 11:42 AM MDT
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  • 46117
    Oh yeah. Thousands.

    I went to high school. 

    The only GUN was used to kill my girlfriend.  Her demented boyfriend stole one and came in through the doors and shot her in the head.

    That was the only gun ever in that school


    Thousands.
      September 15, 2017 11:44 AM MDT
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  • 46117
    Hands are dangerous too.  Minds are dangerous.

    We don't need to turn hands into weapons.

    Guns are already weapons.  So are knives and they have no other name than weapons.  Unless used in the kitchen for cutlery.  Guns?  No other reason than weapon.

    Keep them off the streets and away from people who don't have the sense not to use them incorrectly.  Like killing and robbing and molesting innocent bystanders.
      September 15, 2017 11:47 AM MDT
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  • 6023

    Your personal experience, while real and sad, is merely anecdotal and does not negate the fact that there WERE thousands of firearms in schools across the United States, every day.

    Just because something is a weapon does not make it "evil".
    They saying that a firearm "makes all men equal" is true.
    There have been many incidents of people protected by firearms ... but they don't make the news, do they?  WHY?
    Could it be that doing so might possibly make people think there may be a legitimate reason to own firearms?
    It is not uncommon for "kids" to gang up on someone in Portland's mass-transit train, and beat them.
    The driver can't stop it.  The police aren't there to stop it.  If an unarmed bystander tries to stop it, they get beat up.
    Only armed resistance has stopped these assaults.
    Even knowing people are capable of shooting back, has stopped shooting incidents before more people were killed/injured.

    So yeah ... remove all violent tendencies from humans, and then there won't need to be weapons.
    Until then, I'll keep mine for self-defense ... and defense of others.

    This post was edited by Walt O'Reagun at September 15, 2017 3:59 PM MDT
      September 15, 2017 12:30 PM MDT
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  • 13071
    Yeah.
      September 15, 2017 1:38 PM MDT
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  • Cain didn't kill Abel with a gun. Murder predates the gun. If all we had were spears and bows with arrows, the left would still be trying disarm everyone.Disarming makes coercion much easier. The British of the 18th Century knew it prior to the American Revolution. The same is true today. Murder will always be part of the landscape.  The source of murder is found in the heart and mind of persons, not inanimate objects. 
      September 15, 2017 4:17 PM MDT
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