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S.E. Bourne's avatar

Oof. The Mangioni story got swept away pretty quickly.

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Lmfao's avatar

Can you kill your self yet pedo

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Dave's avatar

Imagine someone walking into a school with the intent to kill where they know there is no one with the capability to stop them. Now change that to walking into the same school knowing that there are a half dozen armed individuals unknown to them who are intent on doing exactly that. After every school shooting gun control advocates make the perfect (in their minds no guns) the enemy of the good. Guns aren’t being banned in the US so the only viable approach to reducing this carnage is to allow school staff who pass the same firearms qualification test as the local police who are called to the scene (too late), to conceal carry their own gun in their place of work. They are always on the scene and should have the ability to defend their students and themselves. A half dozen individuals scattered through the school would provide a considerable amount of security. People with concealed carry permits have been proven to be among the most law abiding citizens in our society and they are around you and your children when you shop at Target. They are of no concern to you there so why not allow them to carry at their place of work? A number of schools in our western states have adopted this approach and I have yet to hear of a shooting at any of them.

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Harry Seitz's avatar

Employers should NOT be allowed to fire employees for any reason they please, including responsible gun ownership.

My dad had me armed and shooting when I was six. I still have a dead eye, I know all the rules, and the most important one to me is that you don't pull on anyone unless you're ready to kill.

Statistically, more guns equal more problems. Even if these people are licensed and responsible, there is a difference between learning as a child vs as an adult, but the same could be said about anything. You learn as a kid, it becomes automatic. Learn as an adult, and there's more hesitation and doubt.

As I wrote, my stance is more ambivalent. With responsible licensing and registration, I don't really have a problem, but I lived in Illinois for a little while, and I got a license and registration in an hour and was able to buy rifles or handguns with no training.

In a better world, we wouldn't have to talk about this, and I don't disagree with you, but I don't think more guns are the best answer.

I've been on ranges, and most of the gun owners, licensed or registered or not, were there for the wrong reasons, irresponsible, hazardous, and lousy at shooting. A few times, a guy went to high five his friends and inadvertently pointed a loaded weapon at me, I pulled on them automatically, and they didn't even notice.

I understand the right and need to own a gun in some circumstances, but most people who do are not responsible enough.

Again, employers should not be able to fire you for whatever reason they please, including gun ownership, but the right to own a gun comes with responsibility, and we have to set a higher standard.

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Lmfao's avatar

You’re retarded.

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James Steinhaus's avatar

“Overprotected children appear to have lower self-esteem, poor coping skills, and higher levels of anxiety and depression" The very same can be said for adults too. Be it on your employer, or on the government, dependency of any kind lowers your self-esteem, limits your coping skills, and leads to higher levels of anxiety. You take a job working for someone else because it is easier and less stressful than working for yourself, and/or you feel they will pay you more than working for yourself.

The self-employed man deals with a much higher level of stress every single day, and, on average, develops a much higher level of coping skills as a result. The very nature of taking a job working for someone else lowers your ability to cope, and we have a larger percentage of those now than ever before, and are every single day putting up more roadblocks on people working for themselves and taking responsibility for their own lives. Have an employer, instead of a temporary job for money, come out of the old feudal lord-relationship.

But with that old relationship came fealty. No fealty, no noblesse oblige to take care of you, and you can and will be fired instead of just transferred to a lower ranked position. That is just the price of not having a Lord controlling your life, and overall, a worthwhile price to pay.

We need to stop teaching our kid to be employees working for other and start working for themselves. A start is getting rid of the union teacher, as go back to independent one doing it on independent contract, taking care of seeing to their own benefits. Those kinds of teacher will more accurately teach the kids how to deal with the everyday stress of being independent. And

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Lmfao's avatar

Ok retard

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