Originally Posted by
Richard
Do you have concrete knowledge and proof that the parents bought the gun for the kid?
If not you are spreading false accusations and rumors.
I am thinking you bought the gun in the hood and then sold it to the parents in order to make a quick buck.
I bet if I sent that to the newspaper,tomorrow it would be headline news with Danny in big bold letters,because they are like everybody else,facts do not matter and they will print it just to grab the morning headlines.
But then again it does not matter what we think,it has no relevance.
Crime is up 400% in some cities,every night is a new newscast of stores being looted and robbed and burned case after case of people out of control going after innocent people just out shopping for a day,people not being charged for crimes,police told to stand down,most do not even show up or do so hours later.
Not for nothing but people probably could not have picked a worst time in at least the past 30 years to push a gun control narrative.
2021 gun sales in creased 60% after the summer of burning cities almost 5 million sales in February of that year alone.
During the pandemic 39,695,315 guns were sold,the average used to be 20 million a year.
40% increase of guns sold to women and African Americans.
That’s not a gun problem,that is a society problem when people feel compelled to purchase a weapon that they would have never thought about doing before,it’s the same society problems that are driving these kids to pick up a gun and shoot up a school.
The guns are not dancing on a stripper pole in order to entice people to buy them,they are buying them out of desperation while in a system that they feel lends no support and gives them no other choice.
The same way these kids are probably feeling,if one has never taken a life before,it takes a lot to take one the first time.
We could stop and see what is driving these kids into that dark place,but it is easier to just say - bad gun - take them all away and everything will be peaches and cream.
The news cycle picks it up for a few days,the gun control nuts use it to push their agenda,the internet goes wild with accusations and gun control arguments,then something else happens and it all becomes a faded memory until the next time.
Sadly you cannot put these kids in a shelf until the next time,the facade of doing something without actually doing anything does not help them.
In this country with 100s of millions of guns out there it is a losing battle thinking you are going to regulate them out of harms way,you cannot even keep cigarettes,liquor or drugs out of their mouths and hands.
Who knows,maybe someday people will drop the narratives and actually figure it out,I am not holding my breath on that.
The increase in school shootings started in 1996 ,this country had no shortage of guns before that and had an occasional school shooting.
What happened in 1996 that saw the school shootings to multiply year after year after that ?
What was the cause for the increase,it was not the guns,they were already there before.
Scratch that,I almost forgot,the internet became mainstream and all of the fun shoot em up games and chat rooms became widely available.
Back in the day when we were kids,we did not even know the news existed or schools outside of our district,for that matter I do not even remember my parents discussing politics or the news with us kids,I remember the watergate hearings being broadcast and then it was tv time with shows that were considered wholesome.
Now we have children talking about stolen childhoods and attending protests where women are walking around with private parts that children should not even understand what they are yet.
TV shows are all violence with blood and guts,computer games where kids compete to get the most kills ,role models that are so screwed up in their own lives that they are in no position to be looked up to,a 6 year old can watch porn with the click of a button,no thanks to Sears eliminating their catalog.
Everybody went to school,nobody is harder on kids then other kids,parents are acting out in public and on the internet worse then kids,we set the stage for monsters then do not like it when they become monsters.