My main concern is what are you advocating?
A. Suggestion and encouragement people to lock up their guns with kids around?
B. Mandatory law requiring guns to be locked up?
If it is B, I very strongly disagree.
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- Wed May 23, 2018 1:51 pm
- Forum: The Crime Blotter
- Topic: The "Riot Mentality" of School Shootings
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- Wed May 23, 2018 10:00 am
- Forum: The Crime Blotter
- Topic: The "Riot Mentality" of School Shootings
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Re: The "Riot Mentality" of School Shootings
Well........maybe.Allons wrote:cdwieg wrote:I have not stayed current on all of the news coming from the Santa Fe shooting. However, I did read an article (linked below) where the father was interviewed by the Wall Street Journal. He (the father) indicated his kid was a "good boy" but he had been bullied and "mistreated at the school". From the article, "Antonios Pagourtzis wouldn’t comment in his interview with the Journal on how his son acquired the weapons."
This is on the parents as much as it is on the kid. Lock up the guns and ammo and the percentages and probability of the shooting goes way down. You want to tighten the gun laws... put it on the parents to be responsible enough to lock up the guns if they have anyone in their house - minor or otherwise.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/father-of- ... 1526920563
If these weapons were locked up and secured this could have been prevented.
How many people with gun safes would lock their guns up to prevent their 17 year old from getting access? Unless the 17 year old was known to have issues, I doubt most people would. The 17 year old may even know the combination in most cases. On the site, we have congratulated teenagers who have used their parents guns to defend themselves at home. I don't think requiring guns to be locked up will prevent the next similar tragedy.