[plug] What do you school-age members think of SlashDot'sHellMouth articles?

[Christian]

John Summerfield wrote:
> 
> > I still don't think the guns are the problem.  They are just tools, to be use
> > d or misused.  It's very tres-chic liberal bunny hugger to blame the guns.
> 
> I agree guns aren't the problem: the problem is the availability of guns.

I agree.  Another problem is people using the guns to shoot others -
that's a big thing too.

Geez, seriously - people are getting massacred and yet it's still
possible to express a point of view like "Guns aren't the problem - it's
people."  Either you get rid of the people or you get rid of the guns. 
Either works but the latter is probably more socially acceptable.  To
say that 'stress counselling' or some such will get rid of the problem
is either so blindly naive as to be ludicrous or a desperate attempt to
avert attention from the fact that high-calibre (semi) automatic weapons
(or even firearm weapons at all!) simply aren't unnecessary for the
average person to have access to in today's society.  

Regards,

Christian.

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