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Originally Posted by Adam the Fish
I would have to say - maybe if there were similar gun controls to ours (these incidents here are decades apart, not so likely a problem that we require drills), there wouldn't be a problem in the first place. *ducks*[/size][/color]
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In my community, guns are necessary. We live ten miles outside of town, our power/telephones go out often, and drugs run rampant in the communities on either side of ours. Our county's entire law enforcement system is lazy as hell. If you can't get them to take you seriously (which happens a little too often for comfort), it takes them hours to get there.
For instance, there was the time that a very, very high man appeared on my grandma's front porch, waiting to recover to break in through her glass storm doors. My grandma called the cops as soon as he appeared. By the time the cops arrived two hours later, my dad (with a hunting rifle) had already escorted the man off the property. When the cops
did get there, they just stood around drinking iced tea and chatting about nonsense things. It's hard to imagine what might have happened if we hadn't had that gun.
To get anywhere around here, you have to go through backroads. Along backroads are where what we call "the druggies" tend to live, making and trading meth within a quarter-mile of the road. For a woman in West Virginia, a gun is independence. As a single woman who intends on living off-grid as soon as my house is built - i.e., in the woods, with no electricity and no landline telephone - I
will buy a pistol as soon as I'm old enough to do so. To go anywhere without a concealed pistol - like my grandma and all of her sister carry everywhere they go - is to risk being mugged, raped, or worse. Here, the law doesn't particularly care.
But, I do think that we need to be more discerning when it comes to
who we sell guns to, and who has access to those guns. I think people should be made to go through drug tests and serious mental evaluations before being allowed to purchase guns. I think that machine-type guns should
not be purchasable by the public - only hunting models and pistols. And, the guns that responsible people
do earn should be locked up in safes when not in use, so that unauthorized persons can't get at them. In the end, a limited number of population would be allowed access to guns - but that number wouldn't be so apt to go around shooting up schools.
So, don't duck. I agree with you, at least partially, as I'm sure any responsible gun owner would also agree with you.
Now, because that was completely off-topic, I agree with what dr2005 has said about the school principal being suspended.
