How stupid is this?`

[Sabine]

On a more serious note, the recent shooting in Stuttgart (Germany) just shows that even in a country with stringent weapons control a madman can aquire a gun and go about shooting innocent people. i am so shocked by what happened.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090311/ap_on_re_eu/eu_germany_school_attack

 

[irishlops]

sabrine, did you hear about the real ira in antrim. the 3 muders...
god bless the families.
the troubles might be back. but god stop it. the men were shot with guns and inoccent bystanders..
thats in ireland. but its not hard to get guns. (i think..)

 

[Jenson]

irishlops wrote:

sabrine, did you hear about the real ira in antrim. the 3 muders...
god bless the families.
the troubles might be back. but god stop it. the men were shot with guns and inoccent bystanders..
thats in ireland. but its not hard to get guns. (i think..)

I was just watching the news this evening, it's shocking! Ireland has suffered enough. I hope it doesn't get any worse.

 

[Sabine]

I can't imagine those gunmen will have helped their cause by their cowardly attack. in fact I think it will unite the peace keeping forces even more.

 

[kherrmann3]

It's sad, but there are quite a few school shootings in the US. I don't know about other countries, but for awhile, it just seemed like there were too many going on within a short amount of time (well, just ONE is too many, but you know what I mean). After the Columbine one, I remember having drills on what to do if it happened at our schools. That was when I was in Elementary school. They canceled school a few times over threats. :shock:

 

[irishlops]

whoa! really!
i hope the world comes to peace some how
sabrine, i agree. the fighting might bring us together

 

[kherrmann3]

I hate to be pessimistic, but I don't think that the human race could handle peace. If you look throughout history, mankind has just picked stupid little reasons to go and create conflict. It's just our nature. It's sad, really. There are a lot of people who are happy, peaceful "hippies" (I try to be), but there are just enough bad-willed people who ruin it for the rest of us.

I am in no way supporting their actions, but they could have possibly been prevented. The parents should see signs of their children going off-track, you know, in the dangerous ways? Also, school counselors should see a few hints on the matter. As for guns, why would you keep a weapon AND it's ammunition out where people can get to it?

While I was growing up, guns were not a new thing to be. My dad hunts deer, and every year I saw him cleaning his rifles. I even helped him clean them before I was old enough (or tall enough) to see over the table. He taught me to NEVER touch them unless he was around, even though I never could because he always had them locked up. I was taught gun safety, and when I was old enough, he took me hunting. I got to first-hand see what a gun does to a living thing. I got to see the damage and saw the deer die. I never would have thought to shoot a person (or anything living).

My mini-theory is that some kids only experience guns from a video-game or movie standpoint. They press a button and BOOM, their problems go away. No fuss, no mess. It's just a bunch of red pixels that are washing their problems away. For people who are mentally disturbed because of social inadequacies, this may look like a good option. It's just my opinion, you can take it or leave it.

That's just my :twocents on the matter...

 

[irishlops]

this may sound silly to other eligions.. but i think the devil/saten/lusifuier has some thing to do with it..

 

[irishlops]

qnd i think kerrman3 is right about toys and the pronlems poof away...

 

[Brandy456]

Thats crazy..
My dogis a threat to people too..but you don't see the goverment condeming Sparky illegal.. he'd just attack them.


Which is exactly whats going to happen in that situation, it's going to bite the goverment in the but because it wont work..

They'll get spoons thrown at people and forks stabbing people then those will be banned too and all of UK will have to eat like savages.

 

[Hazel-Mom]

Ah, yes, forks... I bet my sister would have liked to see them banned, years ago.... I stuck one in her arm once, "in my wild old days"

 

[Sabine]

Hazel-Mom wrote:

Ah, yes, forks... I bet my sister would have liked to see them banned, years ago.... I stuck one in her arm once, "in my wild old days"

Outch!!!!

 

[kherrmann3]

But eating like savages is fun! *goes and smashes face onto a plate of pasta and smooshes face around* See?

*noodley grin*

 

[irishlops]

hah ah ll.
what about stew..or... fish...

 

[slavetoabunny]

Brandy456 wrote:

They'll get spoons thrown at people and forks stabbing people then those will be banned too and all of UK will have to eat like savages.

:roflmao: The mental image I got when I read this was hilarious.

 

[Brandy456]

slavetoabunny wrote:

Brandy456 wrote:

They'll get spoons thrown at people and forks stabbing people then those will be banned too and all of UK will have to eat like savages.

:roflmao: The mental image I got when I read this was hilarious.

^
The whole effect, burning buildings and king kong growling in the distance too ?

:expressionlessim bored.

 

[Sabine]

kherrmann3 wrote:

But eating like savages is fun! *goes and smashes face onto a plate of pasta and smooshes face around* See?

*noodley grin*

And don't forget to take a picture:biggrin2:

 

[Pet_Bunny]

Sabine wrote:

And don't forget to take a picture:biggrin2:

There are some places where photography is banned now. :shock:

 

[NorthernAutumn]

Just my .02...
I think that kids of both sexes should have more proper exposure to guns.

I agree, few understand the gravity of shooting something/someone/some creature. Most kids don't experience a real death until a relative dies, and even then, that's only going to a funeral. Most have no idea how sad and painful death can be; I'm not sure if they even know it's permanent...

I too have my hunting license, and have had the .22 trigger in my fingers. After my course, my father took me hunting for partridge.. I couldn't bring myself to kill them. A poor shot is dreadfully damaging and painful. I respect a hunter who can kill immediately with excellent accuracy.

If you look back in the history of violent school-based crimes, I think you will likely appreciate that social violence with weapons has escalated since children have not been responsible for learning the appropriate use of knives and guns. They are not toys; they are tools.

As per school shootings, the media covers it so thoroughly that it isn't a big step for some suffering, off-kilter soul to get a "big idea".

Same goes for knives... teach the proper use, and I bet the abuse of the knife will decrease.
Of course, there will always be someone who uses it as a weapon; but that's probably been going on since the invention of the knife...

Again, just my opinions.

 

[slavetoabunny]

Brandy456 wrote:

slavetoabunny wrote:

Brandy456 wrote:

They'll get spoons thrown at people and forks stabbing people then those will be banned too and all of UK will have to eat like savages.

:roflmao: The mental image I got when I read this was hilarious.

^
The whole effect, burning buildings and king kong growling in the distance too ?

:expressionlessim bored.

It was the part about "eating like savages" that made me laugh. I pictured Jen and Steve picking up their steak with their fingers and tearing chunks off with their teeth (sorry Jen and Steve for my visual).