re: Do tragedies like today...

Quoting Dr. Paradigm Shift:" I pretty much agree with you--so much smurfed up-ness has to go into something like this. "

Exactly and crazy people don't seem to know they're crazy so they aren't going to seek help themselves.

Quoting ☮[The Mrs.].™:" What the hell is wrong with these people. And Usually the shooter doesn't make it out of the situation ... [snip!] ... answers. These are situations where if I wish that he would have just hurt himself and not all these kids and innocent people."

seriously.

Quoting KNZ.:" AGREED. did you see the stabbings that happened in china too today/yesterday? (i think today?) 22 kids stabbed outside a school. "

And zero fatalities, I think I heard. It's a lot harder to kill someone with a knife.

You have pretty much anyone able to get a gun, legally if they can, illegally otherwise- I just...I don't know what the answer is. It's like we're so far into this gun-culture that we can't climb out.

Quoting KNZ.:" i wouldn't consider homeschooling keeping your kid in a bubble though."

It isn't; however, if the only reason to home school is to keep child from getting shot then what will that parent be letting the child do? I doubt that parent will let child socialize, play sports, and so forth because of the fear of something happening. That kind of parent usually lets fear take over them to the point of not letting child do anything outside of home.

Most home schooled children I know are home schooled by parents who believe the education system is bad. That is why they wish to teach their kids, for better education. They still allow their kids to participate in extra activities to socialize.

Quoting ☮[The Mrs.].™:" What the hell is wrong with these people. And Usually the shooter doesn't make it out of the situation ... [snip!] ... answers. These are situations where if I wish that he would have just hurt himself and not all these kids and innocent people."

Seriously.

Violent people in general I just don't get. Fistfights and stuff like tat even...it seems so primitive and stupid to me.

Quoting KNZ.:" Yeah, humanity is awesome. http://news.yahoo.com/22-children-1-adult-injured-knife-attack-outside-072825313.html "

Oh my goodness. Thankfully, those children are only injured and not dead.

<blockquote><b>Quoting KNZ.:</b>" I wouldn't consider that zoo thing an issue of living in a bubble or not. ha. 7 years of going to the zoo and i've yet to stand my son on any railings. "</blockquote>




That mother didn't mean to have her child die in a horrid way. Everyone does things occasionally that aren't parentally perfect. Point is, bad things happen to good people everywhere. Home included.

Quoting pilot Jess:" Th<blockquote><b>Quoting Scarlett.Harlot.Starlet.:</b>" I feel like there needs to ... [snip!] ... will not be packing an illegal weapon. Look at cities like Chicago- most strict gun laws, yet has the worst gun violence."

I understand that and I agree, I just don't see how people with a history of mental illness or violence can legally get a gun. It happens all the time.

Quoting Clk:" It isn't; however, if the only reason to home school is to keep child from getting shot then what will ... [snip!] ... wish to teach their kids, for better education. They still allow their kids to participate in extra activities to socialize."

That's what i was saying in another comment, if it was us specifically, my son still has scouts, sports, etc. The kind of things we take him too.
The idea of him at school, then transferring to a school where we just had a student shoot another this last year, is scary to me.

Quoting Dr. Paradigm Shift:" Seriously. Violent people in general I just don't get. Fistfights and stuff like tat even...it seems so primitive and stupid to me. "

I agree. Defense is one thing but why just start things for no reason. My dad "killed" a guy who was attacking and raping a female police officer. His family who had never visited him filled a lawsuit, which they lost. Then followed me home and tried to attack me and my son...that was a mistake.

Quoting Scarlett.Harlot.Starlet.:" I understand that and I agree, I just don't see how people with a history of mental illness or violence can legally get a gun. It happens all the time."

The smurffy part is, and what maxes it so unfixable---is that I can tell you three places right now to go buy a gun out of the back of someone's car. No ID check, nothing.


Man...smurf people.

They found 2 bodies in that home connected to him.

Quoting pilot Jess:" <blockquote><b>Quoting KNZ.:</b>" I wouldn't consider that zoo thing an issue of ... [snip!] ... does things occasionally that aren't parentally perfect. Point is, bad things happen to good people everywhere. Home included."

i guess.
i just suppose if i was the parent of one of the children from the school shooting, i wouldn't want it compared to someone setting their kid up on something that common sense isn't safe.

<blockquote><b>Quoting Scarlett.Harlot.Starlet.:</b>" I understand that and I agree, I just don't see how people with a history of mental illness or violence can legally get a gun. It happens all the time."</blockquote>



I agree with that, but those people would find a way. If you want to do something so horrid, be it caused by mental illness or not; I doubt you're going to worry about breaking the law and buying a weapon illegally. It is like saying a bank robber should hypothetically not be able to escape from a bank in an urban area because there are too many traffic lights and they will have to stop, therefore get caught.

Quoting ☮[The Mrs.].™:" I agree. Defense is one thing but why just start things for no reason. My dad "killed" a guy who was ... [snip!] ... visited him filled a lawsuit, which they lost. Then followed me home and tried to attack me and my son...that was a mistake."

Holy smurf, that's crazy.