"We stop being something to be proud of when we love our guns more than we love our children"

[thefool_wa]

59. School shootings in america go back to 1764

So yes, this has ALWAYS been a part of our culture back to before the idea of the right to bear arms was ever penned.

Psychos have always been out there, they will always be out there, and when they want to go out in a spectacular way, making what they want to use illegal isn't going to stop them, they will just find something else. Its not like this is new, or recent, or preventable, it just is. You can not accept that all you want, it is still true.

I choose to accept it and do what I can to defend MYSELF and my family from it, and believe it or not that doesn't involve a gun. I don't think we are going to solve this problem by limiting our rights, we are going to solve it by 1) NOT having a culture that roots itself in dividing us over every issue, every day 2) not letting our country be thrown into the ditch of perpetual poverty, therby increasing the hopelessness and sometimes misguided necessity that I feel is the true root of all this violence.

I think I was a little too single-sided in my argument, I don't think we should do NOTHING, I just think that an assault weapons ban and magazine capacity limits don't do anything but subvert the purpose of the second amendment. I put forth an idea below I think will actually increase security, but its never going to be 100%, and even with my idea, I think the net effect is a fraction of a percent.

I do what I feel is necessary to protect myself from what I honestly feel is the inevitable violence of modern life, mostly that involves staying away from people as much as possible (I work from home, so that is pretty easy). However, every day my kids go out there, I have to send them out there, and there is no way I can do that without accepting that every day there is a risk that ANYTHING could keep them from coming home that day. As far as I am concerned, that is called life, so I deal with it.

on edit: mistype in the year in the subject