It just boggles my mind that the anti-gunners can't understand that if there was a system by which the sane, stable, decent people who are genuinely concerned with their own safety and possibly even the safety of others can't even serve in some kind of emergency capacity (SHTF) when/if a truly disturbed, disaffected individual decides to kill everyone they can get in their sites. They seem to be wired in to a fear-reaction that is beyond rationality, to the level of objects (i.e. firearms) and have the numbers to make the laws that criminalize those who refuse to be victims.
It is
because the firearms are so easy to purchase and use that they should be carried by at least a guaranteed minority to counteract. It is
because the "rights" of the disturbed are so strongly protected that they have the power to procure their firearms that the right to live by the innocent is forgotten. Those who are certified, by whatever means, could help to counteract this emergent, growing problem. It is a very hard salve, but one that looks to be rationally justified. Even a tally of fellow students can reveal a lot about a given individual, to forbid the carrying or encourage the carrying of these horribly, terribly evil awful lifesaving firearms.
We've got a lot of problems, here in America. But that's the price of freedom, as it's turned out, here, unfortunately.
That said, man... I've killed a
lot of people in San Fierro. And I mean a
lot. But, even though some people have taken a huge crap on me (in the real world), for some odd reason.. I don't go out on a rampage, killing random people..