Originally Posted By: scarfacetm
Originally Posted By: Sicilian Babe
Don't focus on minutiae. The issue is that too many children are dying at the hands of armed madmen.
And what about the Oklahoma City bombing? He killed 19 kids all under the age of 6 with a bomb in a federal building that housed offices for the D.E.A., A.T.F, and Secret Service, not a gun, and yet you can still get the stuff needed to make that sort of weapon. The problem isn't guns, the problem is we live in a world that unfortunately has some people in it who are sick, twisted, and fucked up who have no regard for human life, be it children or adult, whatsoever. Even if gun regulations were tightened, you still have guns on the street being smuggled in illegally. If you take guns out of the equation, say you have someone who wants to do something like this, cause serious harm, they'll find something to use regardless of what it is.


And since the Oklahoma City bombing, a horrendous act, how many repeats of them have we seen? And since Columbine, how many spree shootings have we seen? Which cries out for more attention?

And as for this nonsense about hillbillies v. New Yorkers, how about we remember that this thread was originally about the deaths of 28 people, 20 of them who won't see their 8th birthdays, and who are being laid to rest this week.

Before this turns into a pissing contest about guns and bombs and video games, let's remember that there are 28 families in unbearable agony as we speak, that they are experiencing a hell on earth that none of us can possibly imagine.

God bless their souls.


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