Joel Pett for December 24, 2012

What if someone had stopped his Mother from getting such a nasty gun system? Whoever let your USA anti-assualt rifle legislation to slip is responsible.

I still think about the trained armed guard (good guy) who confronts the (bad) guy who is wearing body armor and is armed with overwhelming firepower.

We protect our money with guns, but protect our children with wishful thinking. Do you think our priorities may be a bit messed up?

“Trained armed guards protecting us from bad guys.” Isn’t that called “the Police.” I’m all for only Police having military-style guns.

Good point…but why did she feel the need to have them in the first place?

We TAX all those other things but do we tax guns?

It is not the duty of police to protect you against a criminal with a gun, even if they know who that criminal is and that he has threatened you.Their duty is to investigate and make an arrest if a suspect is located.It is your duty to be able to protect yourself.[]Seriously? If someone sticks a gun in my face, the police can’t do anything to stop him, they just have to stand by and watch?

Uh-huh….

So the words "to serve and protect " are just a catch phrase for law enforcement?

It’s not the car…. it’s the driver who kills.

I think it should be compulsory for everyone from the age of ten upwards to have weapons of mass destruction. Then we’ll see what percentage of the population’s left..If someone’s going to kill – they will; but why make it so easy?

I’m hoping for this Christmas, that the parents of the killed children have the strength and courage to get through this Christmas and all the any ones after it.

in at least 10 states, gun deaths exceed traffic deaths. Nor is anyone carrying a “concealed sedan”.

Yeah, Howie really is dense.

Happily, those of his ilk are diminishing…the information highway has left the close minded haters in the dust!

I appreciate you taking the time to outline a bit of critical thinking for the unfortunate soul, however. Perhaps a Dr. Seuss format would be more to Howie’s cognitive/critical thought processing function…

The real history of “armed guards” going back to stagecoach days, like well, Robin Hood, is that they’re the first ones shot, like at Columbine, and in D.C. recently. With the number of police officers shot and killed every year in the U.S. , arming teachers seems like SUCH a “good idea”!!

BTW, the “child” who did the shooting at Sandy Hook was 20 years old, older than the average age of our troops killed in Viet Nam, as soldiers. PLEASE! Stop referring to him as a “child”!

You might remember that safety devices like seat belts and air bags were forced on the auto industry by liberals. Ralph Nader’s book ‘Unsafe at any Speed’ caused the Corvair to be discontinued, bumpers changed, and many other safety features to be required. -Mostly, people can’t smoke in public buildings, also a ‘liberal’ issue.-Liberals haven’t been able to slow down the production of pus from the ZIT, though.

More shooters were stopped by unarmed civilians than armed civilians. The common theme in shooters being stopped is that they did not have semi-automatic weapons with high capacity magazines or their gun jammed.

How come the fatalities caused by drunk driving & cigarette smoking dropped when sensible laws were passed to discourage those behaviors?

Nope, didn’t twist your words. If someone points a gun at me and the police choose NOT to stop him, are they going to walk away clean if I’m shot and killed.

Not in EVERY state. And there’s taxes on those other things on TOP of a sales tax.

And it’s tllegal to drive a car while drunk….but is it illegal to be in possession of a loaded firearm while intoxicated?

Does it matter? It’s none of our business. She has the right to own as many guns as she wants. She’s more culpable than the NRA. She’s the one who allowed the guns to be accessible to her son.

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NOW who’s twisting words? Did I say she didn’t have the right to own those guns?

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Yes, it matters. Did she own those guns for sport, or out of fear of the Government. If it was the former, that’s one thing…if it’s the latter, then we have to ask the question: who PUT that fear in her head?

And who else are they scaring.? Was it whoever shot that firefighter in upstate new York?

True story, harley.[]When I lived in Arizona I had a friend who owned several handguns and a pump shotgun. he also had a big sign next to his front door, showing a gun pointed at the viewer, with the caption, ‘Rob Someone Else." []So, one day while he was at work, someone broke into his house and stole all his guns.[]When the police came, the first thing they did was tell him to "take that ( blankety-blank ) sign down. Thieves don’t see those thing as a deterrent, to them it’s an ADVERTISEMENT."

“Mechanic”, a number of carjackers have secured transportation with a firearm.

A number of years ago, saw where an elderly lady ran into a carjacker. He stuck his gun, and arm, into her car. She hit the power window, trapping his arm, then drove with him for several blocks hanging there, at considerable speed, she then “wiped him off” against the front of a garbage truck, appropriately. Point being, your 80 grain bullet isn’t always a weapon to use against a 4,000 pound car, and a ticked off “granny”!

To Serve and PROTECT