Text 23721, 58 rader
Skriven 2006-10-10 17:55:58 av John Hull (1:123/789.0)
  Kommentar till text 23714 av LEE LOFASO (1:123/140)
Ärende: Habeas Corpus
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LEE LOFASO -> JOHN HULL wrote:
 LL> Hello John,

 BS>>> I really want to understand how it is that you, who professes
 BS>>> such great love of country, could hate that which all
 BS>>> Americans hold dear, The Constitution.

 SH>>> Melodrama is effeminate.

 VH>>> If I was in the habit of replying to him, I'd ask him his opinion on
 VH>>> the 2nd Amendment. :-)

 MG>>> Slight change of course here; I'll give you that gun control doesn't
 MG>>> work. Twice in the last week a grown man has gone into a school and sh
 MG>>> girls to death then killing themselves. How do we stop that?

 LL>>> Make that three times in the last week.  Gun control/regulation is
 LL>>> only part of the answer in dealing with this problem.  Having trained
 LL>>> personnel who know how to deal with such situations present at our
 LL>>> schools is also only part of the answer.  The school having a plan
 LL>>> as to what to do is also only part of the answer.

 LL>>> Most, if not all, of the shooters in these cases have severe mental
 LL>>> problems.  And this country has more shrinks than the rest of the
 >> world
 LL>>> combined.  Why not try to identify these nutcases and get them some
 >> hel
 LL>>> BEFORE they go on the rampage killing our children?  If we can get at
 LL>>> least some of these creeps off of the streets and inside of mental
 LL>>> institutions, then maybe more of our schoolkids will remain alive.

 JH>> You're dumber than a box of rocks if you think gun control would've
 JH>> stopped of those incidents from happening.

 LL> Guns/firearms should be regulated.  Otherwise, there could be no law
 LL> and order in this country.

 JH>> The best prevention is to have somebody the premises who can shoot
 JH>> back and take out the perp.  But you wouldn't understand that either.

 LL> First you gotta know who the perp is before the perp can be dealt with.
 LL> It is also impractical to have cops present at all times at every school
 LL> throughout the country.  It is just as impractical to arm teachers and
 LL> administrative personnel, expecting them to take care of obviously very
 LL> dangerous situations.

 LL> Cops and other law enforcement personnel are trained to deal with such
 LL> matters.  Teachers and principals are not.

Try taking about something you know a little bit about, Lee.  FBI stats have
shown for decades that the presence of a gun is enough to deter criminal acts
from taking place, and lessens the severity of the crime when it does.  None of
those kids that got shot had a chance.  Odds are pretty good though that most
of them would be alive had someone been there to take on the intruders.  That
is also a fact.

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