Jeff Danziger for December 18, 2012

Actually, they do. They still sell BB guns (my son has a Red Rider), they sell Air Soft guns and they sell all sorts of guns that don’t shoot anything.

right on, Jeff – our home prohibited toy weapons on the property – a few awkward moments for friends of my daughter and guests

I realize this may seem insensitive at the moment, and not PC, but does not the mother of THIS shooter share culpability for leaving deadly weapons unsecured? Would it be wise to leave a hand grenade with an emotionally unstable individual?

No, he’s right.[]Remember the Ft. Hood Massacre?[]There were “gun control” types spouting off before the bodies were even cold.[]Meanwhile, I was trying to find out whether or not several people I knew who were on-base at the time were still alive.

This cartoon is right on target. Glorifying guns and the violent solution to conflict is much of the problem.Yes, video games and weapon toys DO promote violence.

I bought my son a BB gun for Christmas. He’s 44 years old now and trained in it’s safe use. Believe it or not, it was his request.

I was attending an ocular trauma lecture a number of years ago. A slide was projected, showing a BB floating in the fluid in the back of an eye. The lecturer said: “I don’t have to tell any of you what this is.” After a pause, he added: “I hate Christmas.” and then he moved to the next slide.

You really can “put your eye out”. But it’s such a cute movie.

“But “where it all started” is actually wth celebrity status and wanting to be famous. The media elevates these shooters to superstar status. They have a place in history. For kids who are mentally unbalanced, this is appealing. Negative attention is better than no attention.”

I agree with you 100%. The problem is the media would scream like banshees that they were being discriminated against. They elevate their importance above what would be for the public good in this case…

There is your top 10 video game list for 2012. One is not ultra violence in origin. You wonder what a disturbed kid is going to take away from these? Kids have enough problems separating fantasy ideation from reality. Look at them.

http://photos.mercurynews.com/2012/12/17/top-10-video-games-of-2012/#name%20here

I think like you. I grew up watching Westerns on TV. My father loved old war movies. I believe they reminded him of his life in WWI and II plus his term in the 3rd Cavalry (with real horses). I had quite a collection of cap guns right up to the day RFK was killed. I took a hammer to all of them to keep them out of future kids’ hands. It didn’t change anything. We have to change our society’s morals. We also have to change how we handle people who have a serious estrangement with society and reality. Maybe we can’t allow people who have family members with those problems to possess firearms. I don’t know.

Having been on christmas shopping for nephews I can only agree its not a whole lot of weapons there are anymore.

Well Morty, you bring up an interesting thought. Assuming you are not a closet psychopath, you can conclude from your post: lots of kids play these games and don’t go over the top and commit mass murder. 100 million Americans are gun owners, the bulk of which are legally registered, law abiding people that don’t commit mass murder. Of course that doesn’t excuse the actions of the few, which are so heinous in nature they completely overshadow the legal abidance of the majority…

I’ve read the comments on several political drawings about the shooting today and am surprised that no one has brought up the fact that many homes now have guns in them because Fox News and their commenters continually enforce the idea that you MUST protect yourself from the government that is coming to get you. You know, the evil government that came into power with a black president, and e specially now that he was reelected.

well, as usual, all you superficial liberals have missed the target! guns don’t kill people by themselves. seriously disturbed americans who should have gotten serious mental health care – free and universal – and didn’t are the ones opting for mass murder/suicide.in case y’all haven’t noticed, the mental health in this country is going straight down. life under zonbie capitalism isn’t pretty, and it’s gonna get a lot worse, until the working class finally takes state power and ends this predatory system and global poverty once and for all!

If we had read a story last week about some Taliban insurgents entering a school in Afghanistan and murdering 20 elementary school age children and six adults we would have all shaken our heads and said ‘how barbaric’. And we would have been right. And yet the gun lobby thinks nothing is wrong. Think about that a bit, everyone.

I played Doom and Doom II so often back in the day that I still have most of the cheat codes memorized 15+ years later.[]I also have self-control enough to understand that it’s just a game. []Just like the vast majority of other video gamers out there.

Is he taking them off the shelves or putting them on the shelves?

There is no such thing as a “toy”, or “Unloaded” gun. That rule could save many lives, from death, or injury.

All true until assault rifles became easily available.

And you don’t need to have “all go around wasting their classmates and mall shoppers”.Just one will do nicely.

they don’t need to. the little ones are training for war on computer games & being picked out of video arcades by recruiters for their prowess.

actually weenies are an apt subject, notveryright. happiness is a warm gun. a warm gun is a hardon that kills rather than creates life.

It’s totally true that guns don’t kill people, or at least rarely- about the only way you can kill someone with a gun is to beat them to death with it.There is no point in outlawing guns. They are out there, there are millions, they are made of metal and will last for a thousand years if they are kept oiled. Failing that, I could find materials in my basement that would produce a workable gun, and it doesn’t take much knowledge of the subject to figure out how to do it.BULLETS, on the other hand, are time consuming to make and require specific equipment. Production of enough to do serious damage would require planning and patience that are not characteristic of those who shoot up elementary schools. And, working on such a project might attract the attention of someone sane.Bullets can be individually stamped, and their sale can be registered and entered into a computer base. They can be tracked from production to use, so that every bullet can be traced back to the person who purchased it. This way, a guy who wants to buy a couple boxes of bullets to go shoot deer, or the woman who wants a box to keep with the gun in her bedside drawer, won’t set off any warning bells. But the guy who is buying an arsenal will attract attention before he finds a more lethal way to do it.

The banana is the finest toy gun ever made.And good for ya.