A message to those in cities who love guns: It's a sad world you live in.

[Honeycombe8]

22. I'm keeping my gun for protection in my home, thank you.

That's the end of that discussion as far as I'm concerned. You must be male and/or live with others. You feel safe. You are not a favorite target of criminals in your home.

The elderly and women living alone are targets of criminals. Statistics show that when they are targeted in their homes, they don't fare well. There are many things they can do to better the odds of coming out alive or unharmed. Having a gun is just one of those things.

When you come from a hunting area, and you're raised around guns and know to respect them and value them for the service they can provide...you have a different view of a city guy who hasn't been around guns much, except to see them on TV or news shows being used by criminals.

It's really not that big a deal. The big deal is assault weapons, buying a lot of guns or ammo (red flags), getting into violent porn (another red flag), and other things.

Guns have been around since the founding of the country. The mass shootings are a recent phenomenon. So it's not the guns. There's something else going on that makes these guys do this. Have you noticed that it is ONLY males who do these mass killings? Why is that? Is it only YOUNG males? Why not look at that, if that's the case? There are so many factors involved, it could be anything. But if there were lots of guns around for hundreds of years, and mass shootings started a couple of decades ago, I think the answer is....it's not the guns. At least not the rifles or handguns.

This guy made bombs, too.