On the heels of the latest school shootings...

I'm curious about what drew them to purchase AR-15 semi automatic rifles.
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And that's a good, incisive question, Aunt Bea. Maybe if we as a nation found out what is prompting this insanity, we could find a way to get to the root problem and remove the need of some people, particularly
angry adolescents, to own one.
 

Sunny said:
And that's a good, incisive question, Aunt Bea. Maybe if we as a nation found out what is prompting this insanity, we could find a way to get to the root problem and remove the need of some people, particularly
angry adolescents, to own one.
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It's only males. It's the macho thing. G.I. Joe was a popular toy with boys. Girls favored Barbie.

I don't see anywhere where a female has committed a mass murder with those type of weapons.
 
I loved my GI Joe's. The only guns I've had were the ones that were issued to me over the course of my career.

Only one I have now is my grandfather's pellet rifle.
 

I loved my GI Joes as well. Never went on a shooting rampage.

I did blow up a few Joes with firecrackers, and a few Joes ended up going on "extended furloughs" with Barbie and her friends, but ...
 
Camper6 said:
The question I asked was did you own one as a kid?
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That wasn't your question that I quoted and answered.

As a "kid"... I was only allowed to handle a gun with adult supervision during target practice.
At the time my family owned a farm in a very rural area so we had good reason to own guns
and lots of space for target practice.
 
I think that if we focus on why school shooters are so incredibly angry, we will be much closer to solving the problem. In my opinion, AR-15's or no AR-15's, the school shootings will continue until we address the deeper issue of why school shooters are so very angry.
 
As a child I preferred playing with cap guns to playing with dolls and I saved up to buy my own Davey Crockett cap rifle. We also fashioned our own home made bows and arrows for when we were playing Robin Hood games. Girls can appreciate adventure games too but at the same time my mum was teaching me to be kind to animals and people. I hated killing anything, even something as lowly as a beetle.

Therefore - teach kindness more and place less emphasis on entitlement.
 
Traveler said:
I think that if we focus on why school shooters are so incredibly angry, we will be much closer to solving the problem. In my opinion, AR-15's or no AR-15's, the school shootings will continue until we address the deeper issue of why school shooters are so very angry.
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School shooters are the tip of the iceberg. Suicide and domestic violence are other problems and the weapon of choice varies but firearms are a big part of these deaths too.

There is no one size fits all, and fixes all, to the problem of too many people dying violently.

I do agree that effort to understand the killers would be very worthwhile.
 
Olivia said:
My neighbor who lived alone for two years after his wife passed, was doing very well at the age of 89. He went out every day to just go out, had dinners and lunches with neighbor friends, in other words doing well. Then one day he got it into his head that his neighbor and friend of 40 years stole a clock on the wall of his garage. He took his gun over to his neighbor, showed him his gun and told him that he knows that the clock was in the neighbor's bedroom. When he went out daily, anybody could walk right into to his garage and take anything they wanted. I had the key to his house and if he thought something was missing, he could have accused me and come over with his gun. Anyway, he was arrested and jailed and apparently had a great old time making friends with the jailhouse guards. He's on five-years probation and his son moved him to Florida where he lives.

One morning making breakfast and watching the TV news, a report came on that a husband and wife were found dead in their home. What happened was that the daughter was a long-time friend of mine and it turned out that she couldn't get hold of her parents for a few days, and finally went to the house and had to climb through a window to get inside where she found her mom and dad dead on the kitchen floor. The mother had shot the father and then shot herself.

Another morning when I was again watching the TV news, there was a report that a man had gone to the airport where his girlfriend worked in one of the offices. The girlfriend had broken up with him. He shot the girlfriend dead and then himself. I was attending a couple of business courses with this guy.

So, what is the moral of these stories?

Don't watch the morning news and don't live next to a neighbor with a gun.
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If I didn't want to live next door to a neighbor with a gun, I'd have to move out of state, and I couldn't live near myself, either!
 
Butterfly said:
If I didn't want to live next door to a neighbor with a gun, I'd have to move out of state, and I couldn't live near myself, either!
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That last line was me being facetious. However, I would still like to know what kind of person lived next door with a gun. Neighborhoods are changing and the way it's going we're never really going to know who we are living next to anymore.
 
Olivia said:
That last line was me being facetious. However, I would still like to know what kind of person lived next door with a gun. Neighborhoods are changing and the way it's going we're never really going to know who we are living next to anymore.
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Most of us who have guns do not go around advertising it. Most gun owners are just ordinary, average people -- not crazed gun nuts or gang bangers. We do not have horns or funny hats. We do not drag a neighborhood down; we've always been there. We are just people who have guns for personal protection -- we are your neighbors, shopkeepers, doctors, lawyers, teachers, nurses, and the people who sit next to you on the bus or in church. I am the little grey haired lady you see out walking her dog or working at a charity function.
 
" Neighborhoods are changing and the way it's going we're never really going to know who we are living next to anymore."

We never really did........
 
Butterfly said:
Most of us who have guns do not go around advertising it. Most gun owners are just ordinary, average people -- not crazed gun nuts or gang bangers. We do not have horns or funny hats. We do not drag a neighborhood down; we've always been there. We are just people who have guns for personal protection -- we are your neighbors, shopkeepers, doctors, lawyers, teachers, nurses, and the people who sit next to you on the bus or in church. I am the little grey haired lady you see out walking her dog or working at a charity function.
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It wasn't my intention to imply that I thought gun owners in general are untrustworthy even if we do know that there are some people that are. And I have no desire to have guns taken away from legal gun owners or wanting to have the 2nd Amendment repealed at all.

I lived next to a neighbor who threatened another neighbor with a gun because he thought that neighbor stole something from his garage.
 

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