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In reply to the discussion: You can't reason with the pro gun crowd. [View all]lostnfound
(16,179 posts)Is it your idea that the response to these events is
1) a whole lot more people need to carry a gun to their church prayer groups (and malls and movies and tennis courts and beaches and every other public place)? So that there is usually at least one good person holding a gun at the ready to stop a bad guy? Only about a dozen people were in that prayer meeting, including a little kid and old women. I personally don't have a desire to keep a gun in part because I have a teen in the middle of the volatile years and in part because I'm prone toward depressive moods myself. I don't want to carry a gun at all, much less to a prayer meeting. Do you want me to have a gun when I don't want one? Or for those little old ladies at the prayer meeting to have one if they don't one? I assume not; you just want people who want to have one to be allowed to carry them? So that still means there will always be defenseless small groups without guns going about there business, right?
2) that these mass shootings are just something we have to live with (or in some cases, die with), and we shouldn't change anything?
I don't understand what is the alternative that people who don't want gun control (or "people control" related to guns) are proposing?