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Old 12-17-2012, 07:45 AM
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Wow! I was thinking the very same thing when I first read the headline of another school shooting... the nutty gun control people are just waiting to pounce on an event like this and use it to politicize and ramp up the gun control laws. And of course, that is exactly what we are seeing happen right now.
That's because great minds think alike!
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Old 12-17-2012, 07:51 AM
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I could. If someone invaded our home at night and I had to stop them, I would I not feel one shred of guilt over doing what needed to be done.
My husband wouldn't either. That's why I bake cookies for him.
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Old 12-17-2012, 07:56 AM
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It is far easier to get re-elected if you support gun control than it is to stand up and talk about the FACT that America has walked away from morality and that we glorify violence and that our media has no self-restraint.

You cannot tell people the truth so you just have to ban the one thing that has nothing to do with the problem.
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Old 12-17-2012, 08:08 AM
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Here is the real issue......

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/1...n_2311009.html
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Old 12-17-2012, 09:58 AM
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My husband wouldn't either. That's why I bake cookies for him.
Indeed... mine too..... We've several guns planted around the house, and I believe if I were home without my husband there, and someone was trying to hurt my children, I would do whatever necessary..... just not something I think about or dwell on. I do know how to shoot, and would, if I had to. My prayer is that I never will have to make that kind of a decision...
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Old 12-17-2012, 10:04 AM
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I would defend my children too. But if I killed someone, I would struggle with it.
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Old 12-17-2012, 10:24 AM
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Wow. What an article. I can't even imagine what this woman is going through, and millions more like her.

The wrong issue is definitely being addressed, because it is easier to make a law about guns, than to address the underlying issue.

The underlying issue is that we have an epidemic of mental illness in our world with autism, and other closely related mental illnesses.

One thing that should be discussed is.... Is it in our diet? Is it the toxins in our water? Is there something in the very air that we are breathing? Are there things in all the highly processed foods that are destroying our bodies?

These are questions that need to be asked....

I know from my own personal standpoint, as I have written in another thread, that my family has not had to see a doctor for two years now since I took our family off all highly processed foods (frozen and boxed), we began to eat meat without hormones, and began to use natural occurring oils in our diet, such as coconut oil, instead of processed oils, like vegetable oil, and using butter instead of margarine... etc. We don't run to the doctor for every little sign of illness, but instead are using organic antibiotics (oregano oil or colloidal silver).

This is all I have done, and I feel a remarkable change in our health.

Maybe this is at least one issue that should be addressed... what exactly is the effect of fluoride in our water doing to our children, and our bodies?

What about all the effects of the chemically created additives in our foods?

What about all these chemically produced drugs that oftentimes cause more severe side effects, making one effectively having to be on a slew of drugs in order to treat just one symptom, because the side effects create a domino effect, requiring more drugs to treat side effects...

Will the idea that things in our diet, and in the drugs we take ever be considered an issue for discussion?

No doubt.. never... People would rather legislate gun control than deal with these harder issues at the core of the problem.

Gun control is just a band-aid to cover up a festering wound that will never be healed until the underlying infection, and disease is first dealt with.

Remember that... gun control is a simply a Band-Aid for the issue... it feels good temporarily perhaps, but until the underlying issue is dealt with, there remains a volcano waiting to blow....
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Old 12-17-2012, 11:37 AM
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Gun control is just a band-aid to cover up a festering wound that will never be healed until the underlying infection, and disease is first dealt with.

Remember that... gun control is a simply a Band-Aid for the issue... it feels good temporarily perhaps, but until the underlying issue is dealt with, there remains a volcano waiting to blow....
I would argue the point that gun control even qualifies as a band aid. A band aid is something that helps most wounds at SOME level, even if barely enough to register. Gun control makes the issue of gun violence, and violence in general even worse than it was. So to make a more correct analogy, gun control is NOT like putting a band aid on a wound, it is like finding some stagnant water in a marsh and pouring it on the infection in order to make it worse -while SAYING that your doing "something!" about the problem.
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Old 12-17-2012, 12:02 PM
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Why are we surprised that this happens? There are murders EVERYDAY all over the world, using weapons or bare hands. And THAT is mass murder.
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Old 12-17-2012, 12:12 PM
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Re: Gun Control

Should just "anyone" be able to purchase AR-15s???

While gun control brings up some interesting questions... it isn't going to truly remedy the problem.

We need to stop the hate... increase civility in social discourse and society... increase love... and beef up school security.

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