Tuesday, October 03, 2006

how many children have to die before we limit access to firearms?

in a few short days, we have seen a homeless person go into a school, sexually abuse children, and then murder them, then there was the angry young man who went into the school and killed those in his path to pay back the bullies, and then we have the man who entered a school and bound young women and executed them, picking and choosing which could leave and which would stay, and leaving notes for wife and children apologizing,....but his killings were about a 20 year old vendetta.

I don't mean to simplify any of those situations, because they were much more complex than i have stated, but they all speak to the ease that weapons can be accessed....

it makes me ill.
I worry about my grandchildren going into school and being confronted by the gun toting crazy...about the girls being assaulted, the boys being harassed, and any of them just snapping and .........

i know all the arguments on both sides about gun control. BUT SOMETHING MUST BE DONE...

6 comments:

frogstar said...

it's times like these i'm so grateful to be living in a country where firearms aren't nearly as common...

Maria said...

I am stridently for gun control. I don't see both sides. I only see one. We have to get rid of the suckers. All of them. This means that if there is a gun in someone's house, Lily doesn't set foot in there.

If we all did that, things would change.

Maria said...

I was just at someone else's blog and they posted pics of their kids in hunting gear with their dead prey.

My first thought was: ARE YOU INSANE? Get those kids back in the house and stop this nonsense now.

Boo7 said...

"...how many children have to die before we limit access to firearms?"

Amen to that!!!

Cris said...

my kids didn't even have water guns. I allowed no guns of any sort in the house.

i know the old line of "if you criminalize guns only the criminals will have them" but there has to be something we can do.

the first thing is to stop the NRA!

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