Is it time for us to also embrace the Second Amendment?

[RandySF]

As a sane American, I’m feeling more threatened every day.

[RKP5637]

1. You're not alone. n/t

[Tickle]

2. I think every time we have a mass

shooting. The NRA gets more business.

We are not safe anywhere and there are times I think about getting a gun. I don't think I could ever shoot anybody but damn shootings are out of control.

[sarisataka]

6. If you don't think you could ever shoot someone

Even in self-defense you definitely should not buy a gun.

That is the first question a person considering buying a gun for protection should ask themselves.

[jrthin]

3. The security guard at TOPS had a gun; he's dead.

I think well meaning, sane people should attack the nonsense of the Second Amendment as it is now being interpeted.

[c-rational]

4. +1

[former9thward]

9. Does that mean we should not have security guards anywhere?

Because in one instance where a shooter was wearing a bullet proof vest the guard failed to kill him? What logic...

[jrthin]

10. No it does not. I am responding to the sentiment

that having a gun is an automatic life savor.

[former9thward]

11. Well, nothing is automatic in life.

But the good should not be the enemy of the perfect. Guns are useful for protection. A seat belt and air bag may not help much if you run your car into a brick wall at 80 mph. But they help in most cases.

[moonshinegnomie]

5. im armed to the teeth

[johnp3907]

7. No

[CTyankee]

8. We never thought it could happen here in Connecticut...

until Sandy Hook. I still mourn every time another shooting happens. I feel that, given my age, I will die without seeing an end to such gun violence.

[DavidDvorkin]

12. No.