Reply #15: Hang on, [View All]

Do you mean to tell us that tighter gun control laws, waiting periods, and weapons free school zones (which I support), would have prevented these tragedies from occurring?

First off, Luke Woodham the 16-year-old Pearl High School student beat and stabbed his mother to death, before he went on his shooting spree.
So I guess eliminating guns would have prevented her death?!

There is an issue here though, you are right. It will not however get solved by blamming guns.

Lets take a look at the real problems

1. All of them obtained the guns by theft of someone outside the family, from their parents, older siblings or a close relative.

2. All of them had some type of mental malfunction. (I'm sure this is ambiguous but I think you understand the point, if not we all know who ...wink, wink... will point at the problems with this statement.)

More often than not, in today’s society we place blame in a manner that relegates responsibility to others instead of on the true source of the issue at hand.
We look to solve problems in our society through legislation and lawsuit rather than personal responsibility.
Gun owners fuel the anti gun movement with all the ammo (sorry) they need, by failing to responsibly secure their guns.
Gun ownership is a right in this country, but that right carries with it many responsibilities.
The parents of these children are IMO guilty of failing their children on several levels, and should be held accountable for these failings.
Had these parents been “parents” the problems these children were experiencing, quite possibly, might not have escalated to such tragic levels.
These stories do not demonstrate the need for gun control; they demonstrate the need for parents to take responsibly for their children!
Blamming guns is a cop-out for parents who want to maintain the status quo of sqirt em’ out and dump em’ off at day care to let someone else raise them. I'm busy, my kids are fine and I can always blame someone or something else if something goes wrong.
Yea there's an epidemic in this country, it's called piss poor parenting.