<p>I was 8 when Columbine happened. This has always been my normal. “Numb” isn’t the right word for me,it’s “normal”</p>
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<p>In most states, kids are not allowed to buy firearms.
But they can steal them, or buy a hammer and machete and kill their roommates, or plow their car into people, or take a gun off of some policemen and shoot them, or take a knife from a kitchen and repeatedly stab a person and leave them for dead so they can garner favor with Slenderman, or beat 6 people to death with bats so they can get an XBOX, or torture them and leave them on a fence to die. </p>
<p>We defocus by looking at the tool instead of asking and addressing the question of wth is going on in our society that these things are happening and how do we get at the root cause? </p>
<p>As pointed out earlier where are the leaders who are talking everyday and are on the news everyday about the root cause and what is happening that people, kids even, would have such a lack of value of another person’s life? </p>
<p>The government’s leadership seems to be more about kids needing more veggies in their school lunches than stemming the violence and this culture of wanton indifference by getting at WHY they are attacking, bullying, killing, instead of how they do it.</p>
<p>Violent crime is down by 2/3rds since I was growing up, and we had much more lax gun laws back then, but I don’t remember that had nearly the amount of brutality that we see today. Now, that can be because if something happened in a town 1200 miles away, I may never have been aware of it. </p>
<p>What does the black community have to do with this?</p>
<p>One estimate is there are between 270,000,000 and 310,000,000 guns in the US. Or one for every person. But only 37% of the people are said to own guns. No other country in the world is anywhere near the US in the number of guns per person.</p>
<p>Show me what a nation’s children play with, and I’ll show you what their lives will be like when they become adults.</p>
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<p>That is nonsense.
Using your numbers, do you believe that about 100M people in the US are going around killing other people because they have used a gun?
Do you believe that the mere existence of a gun is what causes people to have no respect for another person’s life, no concern if they get caught, and okay with taking their own life if they are about to get caught?</p>
<p>In terms of what a nation’s children play with, GI Joe has always been popular here and overseas. Interestingly enough, the latest movie made twice as much money overseas than in the US. </p>
<p>I Googled pictures of the high school, and the student body looks like a diverse mix of kids from all races. </p>
<p>I’m just in shock at hearing this kind of news again. These are kids, and it’s heartbreaking. </p>
<p>So incredibly sad. </p>
<p>In most states, kids are not allowed to buy firearms.
Right.
But do we ever prosecute the people who don’t have their firearms secure and which are then used in a crime?
How do these kids get ammunition?
Is that also illegal for them to obtain?</p>
<p>If someone had a home swimming pool which was fenced & kids climbed the fence and drowned, the homeowners would be sued.
Those whose ammunition and weapons are stored together in a way that makes it easy for minors to access should be held equally liable.</p>
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<p>There have been about 12 shootings on or near to a campus so far this year, a similar pace to last year.
Not all shootings resulted in death, for instance one person was shot in a leg over a gambling argument, another was an officer shooting at a suspect who did not fire back.</p>
<p>With about 7,000 campuses, that is 0.3% on an annualized basis. Doing the math, it does not seem to be something to be terrified about nor that it will be a “when” not “if”. I would worry more about a car accident.</p>
<p>Yep, pretty much numb to it now. It’s quite apparent that there is no outcry big enough that can overcome the powerful gun lobby. </p>
<p>Agree with the poster above who said she would be terrified to work on a college campus. Being a teacher these days means literally putting your life at risk, and that goes for elementary and high school teachers as well as college professors. Who in their right mind would want these jobs with the current state of affairs? You could not pay me enough to walk into a school every day with what is going on. Once we lose our qualified teachers, the future for out children is bleak.</p>
<p>And a non gang related shooting in downtown Vancouver Bc.</p>
<p>I can’t hear about school shootings without thinking about the shootings that go down weekly in the major cities in this country. And here comes the warmer weather. Uptick. </p>
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<p>Not quite sure what race has to do with it. I haven’t delved into today’s daily shooting, but it seems to me that virtually all of these mass shooters are white.</p>
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<p>The difference – obviously – is that it’s unlikely that someone is going to intentionally use their car to kill me. Also, I don’t understand the logic. Are you saying that because cars can be dangerous, we should just ignore the danger posed by guns? </p>
<p>The way the logic goes is that whenever there is a non-gang-related shooting we are supposed to talk about other kinds of crime than the one in the news. In other words, deflection.</p>
<p>I am not numb, but I am ashamed that this is what we are.</p>
<p>@beachlover15 and @LasMa
If you read the post above me you would understand I wasn’t referring to mass shootings.</p>
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<p>So, as long as you get killed unintentionally, you are okay?</p>
<p>The two events in SB both had someone trying to kill people with their cars.</p>
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<p>No. The point is there is danger everywhere. To be scared about working in a school that may have thousands and thousands of students because 0.3% had an incident of a gun being fired at or near the school is not commensurate with the actual risk you face.</p>
<p>This was happening at the community college in Tallahassee, Florida the same time as the shooting in Oregon.
(campus lockdown for two and a half hours)</p>
<p><a href=“Lockdown at TCC lifted”>http://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/local/2014/06/10/man-with-handgun-seen-on-tcc-campus/10276407/</a></p>
<p>I get frustrated with the idea that guns are left unsecured in homes with children. A hunter safety class does not keep an angry, suicidal kid any more safe than a driver’s ed class does a drunk driver. </p>