Let's cut through the BS. Do GUNS kill people, OR...

[FlyingClayDisk]

Yeah we had that when I was in high school. And guns in gun racks in trucks, hunting in the mornings or afternoons, and no school shootings. You might be on to something there, if it had never stopped, way too late for anything like that, which requires common sense.

That's exactly how it was in my high school too!  Every pickup in the parking lot had a rifle in the rack.  We had a shooting team "inside" the school, and an indoor range too (it was, believe it or not, directly under the POOL!  LOL!  Great incentive not to miss!).  I even had a gun rack in my locker to hold my rifle upright so the stock didn't get all banged up.  Never had a single firearms related incident in my school, or my town (perpetrated by a teenager).  Not ever.  No shootings, no accidental discharges, no negligent discharges...not a single one!

Just about all of us had firearms readily available at a moment's notice.  Nobody ever thought about shooting someone else.  It's not about the evil guns, people!

And yes, we would go out elk and deer hunting in the early mornings and still make it back for 1st period class.  More than once I arrived at school with an elk or deer in the back of my pickup to be taken back to my house at lunchtime to be hung up for skinning.  (My 1st period class was Drafting, and the Drafting teacher, Mr. Kershisnik, was also the rifle team coach...so you had better not be late for 1st period!)

Our school store even sold ammunition!  Store had .22 target ammo and 12 ga. ammo (we had a trap range out past the football field).

So what changed?? 

People changed.  Firearms have remained largely unchanged for over 100 years.  I have a semi-automatic 1911 Colt pistol which was carried by my grandfather in WW1, manufactured in 1913.  So, even semi-autos were around back then.  What changed is the people, people changed, not the guns. 

Just thinking about this pisses me off.  And you know what, it's way more fundamental than just being about "guns".  At its very core, it's about personal responsibility and accountability, not just for guns, but for everything.  Today, society just "blames" all their problems on something else.  Personal accountability and responsible behavior...'isn't MY problem, it's THEIR responsibility (pointing)'.

The people who wish to outlaw firearms only demonstrate their own immaturity and lack of personal accountability by advocating such nonsense.  It's ALL someone ELSE's fault, right?  Rather than behave responsibly, they instead blame lawmakers (i.e. someone else) for not passing laws to deal with problems they themselves can easily deal with. 

It's truly sad and shameful.  People who advocate these things should be ashamed of themselves for being so immature.