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Guns, Do you have any?

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boomerang said:
I live in Texas. The question here would be "who does not own at least one firearm?"
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I remember reading some years ago that Texas led the nation in per capita gun ownership. It stated that there were seven guns in TX for every Texan. BION, I did read that statistic somewhere.
 
Charlie Prime said:
I'll rephrase. New guns are freakin expensive. Guns are by their very nature are bloody dangerous, just like chainsaws or farm tractors.
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So is a bicycle, bathtub, stove, dog, steps, ice, automobile, etc etc..


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I hope to buy a new Springfield Armory 45 compact soon. Yes it is expensive.


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I have had two encounters in two years right in my office. Men wanting money.


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Christopher O'Brien said:
I remember reading some years ago that Texas led the nation in per capita gun ownership. It stated that there were seven guns in TX for every Texan. BION, I did read that statistic somewhere.
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Not hard to believe. Many Texans have an affinity for firearms that goes a little beyond the need for hunting or self-protection. I suppose it's mostly harmless. Except in cases of gang affiliation (a relatively new phenomenon) or the simmering cauldron of a nut case on the verge of making headlines. I think firearms are mostly used responsibly by those who stock their gun safes as a kind of hobby in itself. I would much rather spend whatever spare cash I might have on any number of other indulgences.

Thinking back--In my youth, it was also not uncommon for guys to drive around town with a hunting rifle proudly displayed on a gun rack in the back of their pickup cabs. Yes--we are not many generations removed from the mythological Wild West. For the most part it was not so much wild as quietly gritty.
 
If I had a gun- having two kids myself, I think I would train them in gun safety. I know one thing for sure, kids can figure out how to get into anything. Like inmates, they have the time and smarts to look for weak spots in any security systems. Not to mention that curiosity alone can drive many kids. I suppose better to train them at a young age?
 
Aye, righto 10, then by his mid teens he should be proficient enough to take out half his class-mates.

oopsy, im getting controversial.
 
Why would he do that just because he learned how to properly handle a firearm? Did you start stabbing class mates after learning how to use a knife and fork? Your statement is absurd.


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manxman said:
Aye, righto 10, then by his mid teens he should be proficient enough to take out half his class-mates.
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Or just her gun instructor.
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More good pics of kids, their guns, and what they want to shoot here:Gun girls of America: Innocent faces. Pink rifles. After that horrific shooting by a 9-year-old, children in grip of a nation's troubling obsession  | Daily Mail Online
 
Stagger Lee said:
I suppose better to train them at a young age?
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Absolutely. It's like teaching kids not to drink cleaning products, or not to stick things in electrical outlets.

Making children safe around guns is made difficult by the media children are subjected to. Guns are nothing more than simple machines that do one particular thing, but like sex, the media makes them seem like something powerful, mysteriously frightening, and super-important, when they in fact are not.

The worst sex addicts I ever saw were Penetecostal preachers' daughters. Those girls were taught that sex is soooo powerful, mysterious, and super important that a person can endanger their very soul by playing with it!

I taught my daughters that sex was something dogs do in the front yard anytime they want, and so can you. Nothing mysterious about it. I can't, and won't stop you. You are smart enough to know better. My wife's doctor informed my wife that our daughters stayed virgins until they were married.

Same with guns. Kids should see them all the time. Kids should be shown exactly what they do to animals. Kids should see first-hand, as soon as they can comprehend, how very dangerous guns are.

Like the preacher's daughter, hiding guns from kids ensures they will try their best to play with them unsupervised at the first opportunity.
 
pixelsmith said:
Why would he do that just because he learned how to properly handle a firearm? Did you start stabbing class mates after learning how to use a knife and fork? Your statement is absurd.


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Well heres more absurdity for you.

anuary 9, 2014 Jackson, Tennessee 0 1 A student was charged with bringing a gun to school at Liberty Technology Magnet High School and shooting a fellow classmate in the thigh. The incident occurred outside the front of the school.[453][454]

January 13, 2014 New Haven, Connecticut 0 1 A 14-year-old boy was shot outside of a basketball game at the Hillhouse High School athletic facility, suffering wounds in his hand and leg.[455]

January 14, 2014 Roswell, New Mexico 0 3 Two people were shot and wounded inside the gymnasium of Berrendo Middle School, at about 8:10 am. An 11-year-old boy and a 13-year-old girl were airlifted to a hospital in Lubbock, Texas in critical condition. The 12-year-old suspected shooter, Mason Campbell, a seventh grade student, was apprehended at the scene after he was talked down by a staff member and dropped the shotgun. A staff member received minor injuries. Campbell is facing charges of three counts of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon. He faces a maximum sentence of confinement in a juvenile detention facility until he is 21 years old.[456][457][458]

January 17, 2014 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 0 2 A student allegedly shot two other students in the gymnasium at Delaware Valley Charter School. Both victims, a male and a female, were shot in the arm. They were taken to a nearby hospital and are in stable condition, police say. Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey said at a news conference that the shooter ran out of the school after the shooting but was taken into custody near his home. 17-year-old Raisheem Rochwell was arrested and charged as an adult for aggravated assault, recklessly endangering another person and firearms offenses.[459][460]

January 20, 2014 Chester, Pennsylvania 0 1 One person was shot and critically injured at Widener University in Chester, Pennsylvania. The incident occurred around 10:00 pm outside the university sport’s complex and led to an 8-hour university lock-down. The suspect was not immediately found.[461]

January 21, 2014 West Lafayette, Indiana 1 0 A 21-year-old student, Andrew Boldt, was shot and killed in a classroom building on the campus of Purdue University. A suspect, 24-year-old student Cody Cousins, was arrested and charged with murder.[462]

January 24, 2014 Orangeburg, South Carolina 1 0 A 20-year-old student was shot and killed at South Carolina State University. A 19-year-old was arrested and charged with murder.[463][464]

January 25, 2014 Los Angeles, California 1 0 A man was shot and killed at Los Angeles Valley College. Two suspects were arrested in the fatal shooting.[465]

January 27, 2014 Carbondale, Illinois 0 1 A group of students at Rebound High School got in an argument in the school's parking lot. One student pulled out a gun and shot another student in the ensuing altercation. An 18-year-old suspect is facing charges of attempted murder.[466]

January 28, 2014 Honolulu, Hawai'i 0 2 A 17-year-old boy was shot in the wrist after attacking police officers with a kitchen knife at President Theodore Roosevelt High School. The 17-year-old was charged with attempted murder.[467]

January 28, 2014 Nashville, Tennessee 0 1 One student was shot in the leg in an apparent altercation over a gambling debt at Tennessee State University. The incident occurred during the 2014 State of the Union address where President Obama mentioned the importance of gun safety.[468]

January 30, 2014 Palm Bay, Florida 0 1 Three students were fighting in a parking lot of Eastern Florida State College and one pulled out a gun and shot another of the students. All three student claimed self-defense.[469]

January 31, 2014 Des Moines, Iowa 0 1 After a basketball game at North High School, there was gunfire in a parking lot of the school. Six males in a black jeep had came moments before the shooting and returned at the time it happened. A 15-year-old girl was injured by a ricocheting bullet. While officers were gaining control of the area, teachers on the scene led students into the school building for safety.[470]

February 8, 2014 Bend, Oregon 1 0 A 17-year-old student, Zachary Leyes, fatally shot himself in a classroom at Bend High School. No other students or faculty were injured.[471]

February 10, 2014 Salisbury, North Carolina 0 1 A 16-year-old student was shot in the stomach on the campus of Salisbury High School during a dispute in the school gym. 17 year old suspect was charged with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury, possession of a firearm on school property and discharging a weapon on school property.[472]

February 10, 2014 Lyndhurst, Ohio 0 0 Five shots were fired in the parking lot of Charles F. Brush High School, including one which hit an unoccupied police car. No one was reported to be injured, though a school basketball game was going on at the time.[473][474]

February 12, 2014 Los Angeles, California 0 1 A male victim was shot in the back in a possible gang-related drive-by shooting near the University of Southern California. The suspect fled into the University Campus. The victim was last reported in stable condition before being transported to a local hospital.[475]

February 21, 2014 San Jose, California 1 0 A man wielding a large knife was shot and killed by officers from the San Jose State University police department, across from the University campus. Responding officers first tried to tase the man, but was ineffective.[476]

February 22, 2014 Augusta, Georgia 0 1 A shooting involving a campus police officer occurred at a Georgia Regents University dormitory complex. A male suspect entered a vehicle and nearly struck an officer, who opened fire. The suspect was taken to Georgia Regents Medical Center with injuries that were not believed to be critical.[477]

March 12, 2014 Miami, Florida 1 0 An elementary school teacher was shot and killed outside The Academy of Knowledge Preschool. Police investigators believe the shooting stemmed from an argument the victim had with an unidentified man at a house close to the preschool. The suspect took off and remains at large.[478]

March 25, 2014 College Park, Georgia 0 0 An argument between students led to shots being fired in a Benjamin Banneker High School parking lot during the afternoon. Investigators believe multiple people were present when shots were fired, but it was not known how many could face charges for the incident. No one was injured in the shooting.[479]

April 9, 2014 Greenville, North Carolina 0 0 Just after the lunch hour, at D. H. Conley High School, a car drove past the school and witnesses said an occupant reached out of a car window and fired shots in the direction of the school. This all occurred on Worthington and Tull Roads, which are right in front of the school. No one was injured.[480]

April 11, 2014 Detroit, Michigan 1 0 After a Friday evening student awards ceremony called "Grammy Night", four men who were affiliated with a gang fired into a crowd in the parking lot of East English Village Preparatory Academy; one nineteen-year-old teen, Darryl Smith, was fatally shot in the head. Smith was not a student at the academy.[481][482]

April 21, 2014 Griffith, Indiana 2 0 A man fatally shot his estranged wife in the parking lot of Saint Mary School in northwestern Indiana and later killed himself at his home after a police officer confronted him.[483]

May 4, 2014 Augusta, Georgia 0 1 Two men fired shots inside a dormitory at Paine College on Sunday, injuring one student in the head. Neither of the suspects were students at the college.[484]

May 5, 2014 Augusta, Georgia 0 1 An active shooter situation was reported at Paine College on Monday with one person reported to be shot. The suspect was apparently apprehended and in custody. It was the second shooting incident to occur at the college campus in two days.[485]

May 8, 2014 Lawrenceville, Georgia 0 1 A person was shot on a student parking lot roof at Georgia Gwinnett College, receiving an injury. The specific cause has not been identified.[486]

May 14, 2014 Richmond, California 0 1 A 14-year-old student was injured during a drive-by shooting in front of John F. Kennedy High School at 8:30 am. He was shot as he was running towards the school campus after a fight took place. The student suffered a serious but stable injury to his leg. Police are searching for a suspect.[487]

May 23, 2014 Isla Vista, California 7 13 2014 Isla Vista killings. 22-year-old Elliot Rodger went on a stabbing and shooting rampage just outside the main campus of the University of California, Santa Barbara. Some campus buildings were within the route of the shootings. The spree began when Rodger stabbed to death three men in his apartment. Leaving the scene in his car, he drove to a sorority house, where he shot four people outside, fatally wounding two female students. He drove to a nearby deli and shot to death a male student who was inside. He then sped through Isla Vista, shooting at bystanders and striking four people with his car. Rodger exchanged gunfire with police twice during the killing spree. The rampage ended when his car crashed into a parked vehicle and came to a stop. Rodger committed suicide from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.[488][489]

June 5, 2014 Seattle, Washington 1 3 Three people were shot inside a hallway in Seattle Pacific University. One student died. The gunman was tackled by a student as he was reloading his shotgun, and arrested at the scene. The suspected shooter is identified as 26-year-old Aaron Ybarra.[490][491][492]

June 10, 2014 Troutdale, Oregon 2 1 At around 8:30 am, shots were fired at Reynolds High School. 14-year-old freshman Emilio Hoffman was killed,[493] a physical education teacher was injured, and the gunman, 15-year-old Jared Padgett, exchanged gunfire with police officers and then committed suicide in a restroom stall.[494][495]

September 9, 2014 Miami, Florida 0 1 Towards the end of the school day, one alternative school student in Miami was shot as a small group of students tussled. The injury was minor, requiring hospitalization, and five young adults were later questioned.[496]
September 18, 2014 Pewaukee, Wisconsin 0 0 A Pewaukee High School student was arrested on Friday after it was discovered that he had an unloaded rifle but also hundreds of rounds of ammunition in his car on school property. The accused was a 17-year-old junior.
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September 27, 2014 Terre Haute, Indiana 0 1 A 20-year-old Indiana State University (ISU) student was shot by another ISU on Saturday inside a residence hall. The injuries were not fatal, and a full recovery is expected. The shooter was arrested on the following day.
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September 30, 2014 Albemarle, North Carolina 0 1 Two students got in an argument at Albemarle High School around 7:30am on Tuesday, and one of the students shot the other twice including once in the leg. The student who committed the shooting was allegedly involved in a stabbing of a football player last year at West Montgomery High School, which is only 20 miles away in Mount Gilead, North Carolina. Thankfully, the school had held an active shooter training over the summer, which prepared the school for this incident.
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September 30, 2014 Louisville, Kentucky 0 1 One student was shot and injured at Fern Creek Traditional High School. The incident occurred around 1pm, reportedly after student became enraged in a hallway and pulled out a gun. The student was arrested later that day.
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October 3, 2014 Fairburn, Georgia 1 0 After a homecoming football game, a fatal shooting of Kristofer Hunter, 17, occurred in the Langston Hughes High School parking lot. The assailant, Eric Dana Johnson Jr., 18, has not yet been apprehended.








Whats that about 20 people killed by kids on school premises this year alone, good job they closed july/august.
Bet they werent thinking this is absured just as the kid pulled the trigger on them.
 
In each instance a human pulled the trigger. The gun did not shoot itself. If you then look at the human closer I bet you find prescription drugs involved in many of those events.
I have never seen a gun jump up and shoot someone. Ever.


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You will never see a kid with no access to a gun, shoot someone either.

Yall should share the same dream, that your police can one day do their job un-armed, people need screened before being issued a certificate for a hunting weapon.

Personal firearms for protection is just macho bollox, dis-arm criminals, heavy jail terms for possession, heavy estrictions on sales, dis-arm the nation, and de-militerise your police, everybody lives happily ever after, if yu want a gun, get screened, and get a liscence..

Teaching kids to use fire-arms is ludicrous, how can any sane person not see that, theres a reason why kids cannot consume alcohol and vote until they are 21, or drive a car until they pass numerous tests, and even then they are restricted.

Tell me who in their right mind would give hormonal teenagers access to fire-arms.
 
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That list was one school year in the U.S. Madness, the whole situation. No parent thinks their kid will be that kid who sneaks a gun to class. After, it's the whole "how could this have happened?" My guess is, there is not a shooter on that list whose parent(s) don't regret leaving access to that weapon. Except in the rare case when a kid obtains one outside the home.
 
Well theres rural enviroments, and some kids grow up in them, nothing wrong with hunting, or introducing a kid who wants to hunt, to hunting, but theres learning stages, mostly they just tag along, and learn, and its a world away from city kids and weapons.
 
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