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December 14th 2012, 07:00 PM
shevek
Too bad one of the staff didn't have acid rain charged up, or a gun.
The problem isn't that there aren't enough guns; it's that there are way too many. Giving some more to people who you hope can be trusted doesn't make things safer, because you will sometimes be mistaken in who to trust. AFAIK, the USA has many more shooting incidents than any country where weapons aren't so easily available. Especially in case of schools, where angry students go mad over things that seem very important to them (like being bullied), it is much better if they can't easily get their hands on a weapon. If many people around them have fire arms, it will be relatively easy to steal one. Here in the Netherlands, I wouldn't have a clue where to start looking if I'd want to get a weapon. And if I did start looking, chances are that the police would find me before I find a weapon.
I feel a lot safer knowing that almost nobody has a gun, than I would if I had one myself. Did you know that people who own a gun are more likely to get killed by a gun (possibly their own) if a criminal enters their house, than people who don't?
The problem isn't that there aren't enough guns; it's that there are way too many. Giving some more to people who you hope can be trusted doesn't make things safer, because you will sometimes be mistaken in who to trust. AFAIK, the USA has many more shooting incidents than any country where weapons aren't so easily available. Especially in case of schools, where angry students go mad over things that seem very important to them (like being bullied), it is much better if they can't easily get their hands on a weapon. If many people around them have fire arms, it will be relatively easy to steal one. Here in the Netherlands, I wouldn't have a clue where to start looking if I'd want to get a weapon. And if I did start looking, chances are that the police would find me before I find a weapon.
I feel a lot safer knowing that almost nobody has a gun, than I would if I had one myself. Did you know that people who own a gun are more likely to get killed by a gun (possibly their own) if a criminal enters their house, than people who don't?
