Recent content by Della

How romantic and how perfect they sound for each other!

We'll I did say "usually," and the answer most often given by gun owners as to why they have them is, "to protect my family." Yes, lots of people in rural areas need guns to kill predatory animals and police and military people need guns. I was really only talking about this shooter who...

What possible reason? He had a gun. People who buy guns expect to use them at some time. Usually for "protection." So all the time they're target shooting and cleaning their guns they're fantasizing about saving their family from an intruder some night. He thought his dreams were finally...

Yes, I think some people are just miserable and unsettled when they're alone. I'm like a cat I used to have, I like having someone else in the house, in the next room.

I spent years as a drive-thru bank teller in the 1980's and I was constantly amazed at the ordinary looking people who had driver's licenses even though they could not read and signed their checks with an X, some couldn't grasp why they couldn't have money even though they still had checks in...

Of course it's not brave or honorable to murder people, no one ever said it was. It's not an intelligent act either but you don't yell "stupid" at them. They are much worse than that. I just don't see these cruel murderers as cowardly. Perfectly nice people can be cowardly, to me it's a word...

But it meant so much to so many of us! 1. A devoted dog is all you need. or 2. "Say what now?"

Well since you brought up what names we call them, I always wonder why you and many others always call them "cowards." Murderous, heartless, evil, vile and many other negative adjectives would come to my mind before "cowardly," which isn't even that bad a thing. Shooter is a correct term and...

My parents snuggled up on the couch together every night, watching TV from about six till midnight. They loved all the dramas like Upstairs Downstairs, 90 Minute Playhouse, The Loretta Young Show, Mini-Series things like The Thornbirds, Nature shows, they were super impressed with time-lapse...

We had to watch that because my father was a dead ringer for Richard Carlson and the following day everyone he knew in town would be saying, "Saw you on TV last night!"

Unlike that spoiled @seadoug ;) our father ruled the TV and he was super critical. For example we couldn't watch "Seahunt" because Lloyd Bridges' eyes were too close together. Like Aunt Bea we watched what we kids called "Worlt Disney" early on Sunday evenings, always hoping for cartoons...

From AI: The statement "Most of the perpetrators of gun violence... are from the hands of people with mental issues of some type" is false. This belief is a persistent and harmful misconception. The vast majority of people with mental illness are not violent, and only a very small percentage of...

That's assuming they all knew about that rare, unusual gun. Frankly, I don't care what the founding fathers thought. They couldn't predict the future, they couldn't imagine out huge population, our manufacturing ability our urban lifestyles, and they weren't God. The United States...

Thanks for finding that, Kate. I had guessed that he might have been regretting the gender change and that would be a huge factor in his going off the rails. He wishes he hadn't "experimented with gender or weed. " People will remember the gender part and gloss over the reference to weed, but...

Crumbley's parents not only bought him the gun, they were called to school the day of the murders and his teachers suggested they take Ethan (age 15) home because he had drawn a violent picture. They scoffed it off and didn't take him home. I can't think of any way this latest shooting could...