When I went through grammar school and high school, there was some bullying. I was subjected to it a time or three. In those days, though, fighting wasn't allowed but if a fight happened, the victim wasn't punished as severely as the attacker. We were allowed to defend ourselves.44 AMP said:Like we got serious with the war on drugs, the war on crime, the war on poverty, and war on (insert any and every other social injustice here)????We, as a nation, need to start getting serious about stopping bullying.
There you go. The strong prey on the weak. it is a factor in natural selection, and you aren't going to change that. The point of educating our children is to learn the difference between what one can do, and what one should do. Some, just don't learn that, because for them, bullying others, works...until it doesn't, IF that ever happens.Bullies have been around since the beginning of time
Several other school shootings, with lower body counts, were also carried out with firearms that were legally purchased and possessed by a parent.Metal God said:I have to assume because there was not an "ASSUALT" weapon used the topic is going to turn to how did he get ahold of his fathers firearms ? I'm not sure how many of these attacks involve the shooter using firearms owned by others . Sandy Hook and this one both had the shooter using there parents firearms.
Some states already have that requirement. My state does -- but only if there are children under the age of 16 in the home. I think the law's purpose was to prevent children from accidentally shooting themselves or another child while playing with a gun they find in the house. It has been in effect since long before school shootings became a topic of national conversation.Metal God said:My point to this is , are we headed to a national law requiring all gun owners to keep there firearms in a or secured by a certified locking device . Be it a safe , cabinet or trigger lock ? If you fail to do so will the law allow prosecution of said owner of the firearms used ? Is that even a reasonable step ? To ask gun owners to secure there firearms and if they choose not to . They understand they can go to jail for that choice ?
Search "Rogue game preserve elephants" See what an absence of the Patriarch can cause.
Did I say this already? If you as a parent see your kid going to school in a trench coat with weird crap on it (every day in the TX heat) - and you don't investigate or let the kid - you are not the world's best parent.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott in Texas says the gunman, Dimitrios Pagourtzis, who was a student at Santa Fe High School, used two firearms: a shotgun and .38 caliber revolver, both of which he got from his father. Ten were left dead, mostly students.
The guns may have slowed down the gunman’s deadly rampage because they have a slower firing rate than firearms used in other recent mass shootings, such as the AR-15. Abbott said it was unclear whether Pagourtzis' father knew that the weapons were missing.
High-powered rifles such as the AR-15 can be fired more than twice as fast as most handguns. The standard magazine for an AR-15 holds 30 rounds, allowing a shooter to continue firing uninterrupted for longer, making the weapon more lethal than other firearms, though clearly the use of any gun can be deadly, especially a shotgun at close range.
I do not believe these killers can be engineered as a conspiracy. That would be nuts.
Thanks to Mainah for finding his work relative to the shooting we witness today.
From the USA Today. Apparently they are relieved that no AR15s were used... since all other guns are less lethal.
Other shootings, including the deadly attack at Virginia Tech included less lethal weapons. Student Seung-Hui Cho used two pistols to kill 32 people in 2007.