Guns and colleges make formula for tragedy

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154. That's for profit. And of course this is all hypothetical.

You still aren't refuting my argument that since there is so much money for new guns there's no money for training.

I think once every ten years or something like that would be reasonable...

"Something that you can try is: asking instead of telling us what should be done. Try it; it might work."

I've tried that - some posters here give reasonable responses - more than a few don't.

"You throwing out a bunch of ideas until one of them gets agreed on out of sheer exhaustion or a desire to compromise isn't going to work."

This is DU - Not Mitt Romney's quiet room for class warfare discussion.

"Did you agree with them in their entirely? The DHS, the Patriot Act, warrantless wiretapping, extraordinary rendition, the TSA, backscatter body scanners and intrusive pat-downs, torture of prisoners, indefinite detention of terrorism suspects, Guantanamo Bay and Baghran Air Base? How about mandatory police checkpoints, where you have to have your ID scanned to pass through? Public-area surveillance cameras?"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_welfare_clause#United_States - I've already stated I'm for the Patriot Act (as is Barbara Boxer I might note, I'm for DHS, for extraordinary rendition (I would have done the same as Obama on Osama - not the Ron Paul position), I think TSA could be run much more effectively, I'm against torture of course (doesn't work), against indefinite detention (for trials), Guantanamo Bay (the politics are difficult), think we need to rethink our Afghanistan strategy, for police checkpoints in emergency situation, for National ID (I think we basically already have it), and we already have public-area surveillance cameras in many major cities (for). Basically, I share the same position as the President - so shoot me

Again, I think we need to be common sense about gun control, what we have now, we all agree isn't reasonable, and isn't really effective (except for our more "libertarian&quot posters.

Obama eyes 'common sense' US gun control
(AFP) – Mar 13, 2011

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama says it's time for US lawmakers to tackle the divisive issue of gun control in hopes of preventing tragedies like the Tucson shooting spree that killed six people.

In an opinion column published Sunday in the Arizona Daily Star, the main Tucson newspaper, Obama argued that improving the system of background checks on gun purchasers should be the first "common sense" step that neither side of the gun debate should oppose.

"I know that every time we try to talk about guns, it can reinforce stark divides," Obama wrote in a rare public commentary on the gun control issue.

"However, I believe that if common sense prevails, we can get beyond wedge issues and stale political debates to find a sensible, intelligent way" to make the nation "a safer, stronger place."

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gYDgVtROj8d0l867R5RhqFJ_ajHw?docId=CNG.7746b850479d38aba7d8729502fa5036.1c1

That's my position and I'm sticking to it.

P.S. Good work on the DUzy's, yet again.