I gave my brother-in-law an old Remington 514 a week before this school shooting. He's been trying to buy ammo for it to try it out and hasn't been able to.
This surge of gun-control talk has lead to a mass injection of guns and ammo into the populace. People on the fence about owning a gun, or another gun, leaped into action. People cleared the shelves of ammo. This happened after the Virginia Tech shooting--I couldn't get my CCI Stingers for months.
We live in a country where an individual has power. We don't, like India, have women systematically raped on public transportation like it's a public past-time. Many families have the equipment in their garages to build an armored car. An individual has power in this country. When I worked at the embassy in Paris, we would toss people out of the embassy and the French Gendarmes would kick the shit out of them with no cause, question or justification.
It's not about guns. It's about personal power. In this country, if the French embassy showed you the street, the DC Police would not absent mindedly kick you down the street. The second amendment isn't about guns. It's about crediting the individual with personal power. The whole constitution is about that. Personal power is the theme. In France, you cower from the 22 year-old national policeman. That's a socialist place that long ago stripped the personal power from their people. It's very sad because in spite of the jokes about their military failures, I greatly admire their military traditions.
Don't let your personal power be stripped away. I have 5 kids in school. The idea of a gun control law protecting them from a mentally disturbed person is absolutely laughable. This isn't a time to further such an agenda.
The best idea I have heard is to have exit door in each classroom. Instead of the kids hiding and waiting to be shot, let them run away.
Myself--I have 3 daughters and 2 sons. They have names. I have a personal relationship with each of them. I have my own things going on, but my wife is the one with the 9-5 and I see them off in the morning and back in the afternoon--and when they are young, stayed home during the day with them. I can't watch the old Winnie the Pooh movie because the end makes me so sad. No, Christopher Robin says, you can't go back and do it all again. I can't take that ending.
To have someone go into a school and shoot my kids would absolutely end me.
And it's a totally different subject than gun control laws.
If the school district would allow it, I would buy each of the 5 teachers that are responsible for my kids a gun and pay for the training. I can't be there to protect them.
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Combine all of those? And you get my idea of the terdpiles of that church.
