Matt Bors for February 04, 2013

That’s right, guns don’t kill video games do. So do movies & TV shows so instead of scrapping the 2nd amendment do we do away with the 1st ?

I believe Morty has offered to be our tyrant. He was way ahead of the curve on this one.

I watched LaPierre on Fox yesterday. Even Chris Wallace worked him over! I am amazed at how he maintains his “new” position on background checks when he used to support them. Oh well, it was interesting to watch for about 5 minutes and then watching cable TV of the Fox or MSNBC genre starts to make me itch…

All the video games based on combat and the talents of special operations folks, and the La Pierre position that video games kill.

Enter the guy claiming the record number of kills as a sniper and his ex-SEAL buddy, ambushed on a gun range in Texas, while granted, helping a fellow vet who’s had “adjustment problems”.

Yes, guns do kill, even the most highly trained combat veterans, who survived ambushes on multiple deployments “outside the wire”.

Yes, it is time to ask, “Who’s crazy?”

As someone put it: if video games are so dangerous, how come people who own them can still buy a gun?

They play the same video games in Europe, Japan & Australia. Yet, those places have less violence. Not just gun violence, which is drastically less, but ALL types of violence. It’s pretty clear that there are a lot of people here who think extreme violence is often the best & first solution to any conflict.. THAT’s what we should be talking about, not video games.

“Video games are inanimate objects.In the hands of a stable person they are just games.”In the hands of an unstable person, they are just games. A gun on the other hand, can be deadly in the hands of someone with mental issues.

I’m sorry, I’m sick of the argument that “guns don’t kill”. You can’t kill a person at 600 yards with a rock, fist, sword, or even a crossbow, or even an old English long bow- you CAN with a rifle. At 30 yards, pistols become accurate, but long bows won’t fit in your pants.

GUNS KILL! and people WITH guns kill a lot more people.

Car deaths are generally “accidents” though they can and HAVE been used as lethal weapons for homicides, in fact, killing more police officers than “blunt weapons”.

On “exposure” to violence. Despite all the movies, games etc, a trip to the morgue has influenced a good many kids when they see the REAL impacts of either auto accicents,or gun violence. When they see the actual gore, they know it’s real.

Also, in movies, a fall from a tall building always finds the victim landing on a car, looking like they might have broken an arm, and with typically a dribble of blood from the mouth. From over 100 feet, in the real world, the body splatters over a radius in excess of 15 feet, often a good deal more. In higher falls, it literally is a whisk broom and dust pan situation, with a garbage bag.

With guns, there’s always a nice round hole with a trickle of blood. In the real world that small hole in the forehead (another “classic”) doesn’t show that the whole back half, or top, of the head is blown off!

Yes, seeing real world is NOT TV, or movies, and when kids see the real damage, their attitude toward firearms changes. When my son was about six, I showed him the damage to a deer i’d shot in the neck. Three vertebrae were blown to pieces, and the wound was, in his words: “gross”. It impacted him to the extent that when I did teach him to shoot at age 12, he had respect for the weapon in his hand. He’d long NOT handled my real guns, and was not allowed toys, and he knew from that deer that there is no such thing as a “toy” gun, nor an unloaded one!

My son, like me, has been to real war, and seen real death. Participating makes one much more aware, than the average person screaming for “gun rights”. Well, if guns don’t klll, why teh “H!” do folks think they should have “rights”?

Not once have I called for banning all guns. I DO however hold with SCOTUS, including Justice Scalia, that it IS the responsibliyt of government to REGULATE firearms, and the people who possess them.

When the sniper was killled, it was after he’d been critical of Obama, or anyone else, calling for regulating firearms. One could only wonder if his dying words, on his final breath were, “too bad he didn’t have an M-16 or Barrett .50”.

I’m a left wing christian liberal who believes that the founders have put the 2nd amendment in for a reason. I believe it is our right to make sure that tyranny does Not take over democracy. Does anyone Really? want a 1 party style government?People who insist that “Obama is going to take away our guns” overlook the fact that more than half of Americans are asking for “gun control”

Also most of them have very little real knowledge about difference the sizes of calibers , styles, And why the AR-!5 is not really any scarier than other guns. etc.The president has to try to make a truce or at least, try to make one side happy without alienating the other. And I think he knows that “Gun Control” is not going to be passed in the form of “taking your guns away” it will be more likely to be something like more background checks (which don’t really help) or something like it.

I get upset with the mindless hatred of the president. It really borders on madness. We have good presidents and we have bad presidents. It’s not like any of them are going to just hijack the white house.

Please, everyone just be reasonable and think some things thru. This too will pass, so we don’t have to get ulcers from it. Smile at some body.

So is a book.

WOW, so you’re saying that we should arm everyone and then punish the ones who murder. Unfortunate policy for 20 dead children.