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(476 posts)America has more than twice as many guns as adults. As long as that remains steady, 10s of thousands of Americans will die at the end of a gun every year.
cvoogt
(949 posts)considering his treasonous past.
mwooldri
(10,303 posts)When on Ritalin, the idea is that the patient is more focused. Off of the drug, less focused, more prone to do rash things.
I have mental health issues, as do my kids.
So that's why this house is a gun free house. We will leave it to the experts. And if we do get a gun (quite unlikely) we will secure the heck out of it.
Access to guns is the problem.
19catsandcounting
(32 posts)While getting through the Supreme Court? What to do about the hundreds of millions of firearms out there? Raising age limit and increasing owner liability would certainly help, but wed probably still see a very high number of shootings.
pbmus
(12,422 posts)Told me a long time ago ,,,,,
Where theres a will, there is a way....
And Welcome to du....
19catsandcounting
(32 posts)That is flippant though, whatever way we go millions of lives are at stake, it deserves serious thought.
NutmegYankee
(16,201 posts)matt819
(10,749 posts)Surely girls are on Ritalin also. Why are they not school shooters?
So, is it too many doors or Ritalin?
Kirk Lover
(3,608 posts)Igel
(35,356 posts)The local school district had no metal detectors at their high schools. The school board made a big deal about how they weren't a high-risk school, how perceptions would be adversely affected and that the idea of metal detectors at school entrances would be an insult to their fine, upstanding student body.
Two weeks later a kid was killed in the school lobby just outside the cafeteria.
An emergency board meeting that week reversed their "good decision" and placed "humiliating and insulting" metal detectors in schools. The public outcry was incredible.
But in true "Just don't sit there, do something" however stupid and unrelated to the problem--do something to be seen to be doing something for political reasons, not logical or relevant reasons--nobody on the board, nobody in the audience, few in the press bothered to notice a fact that was there at the beginning of the news stories but quickly vanished. The killing wasn't just a stabbing death, it was done by a ceramic knife. A shitload of ceramic knives could be carried through one of those metal detectors intended to prevent a recurrence of that killing without an alarm going off.
The fact-deficient public was duly mollified by the fact-ignoring school board. Most of the members were re-elected the following year, in part for their prompt response in (doing nothing that would lead to) preventing such a heinous act's repetition.
Honestly, dentists must make a fortune from this kind of thing. The knee-jerk reaction is so violent that it must break thousands of teeth on a daily basis. You're just sitting there, you hear something, BAM! you need to have cracked teeth mended and your jaw wired because you just kneed your face.
DetroitLegalBeagle
(1,926 posts)There was still a shooting in school. It was gang related, turned out one of the janitors in the school was a member of the local gang, he was letting in fellow members in through a back door. That's how the gun got in. There is no perfect solution to this. No magic fix to this fucked up problem.