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"Two things can be right at once. A gun can be used for good and a gun can be used for bad. We need to grow up and understand that guns aren't going anywhere and neither are evil people who do horrible things. So stop wasting our energy talking about ineffective gun control and start focusing on ways to actively save lives instead of moving air around the room to talk about gun control. And while we're at it, let's focus on why we're raising cold-blooded killers. Because we've always had guns, but kids in the past weren't shooting schools up like this."
"Let's focus on why we're raising cold-blooded killers." Except that even parents can't always stop these kids from growing up into monsters. In a free society where individuals make choices, there are problems that are unsolvable and this is one of them. It's not about guns, not about bombs, knives, it's about murder. We want to ban anything we can control, but what we really want to ban is violence, murder, and insanity, and yet we don't talk about that because we all know that violence is built into the human condition and likely always will be.
"Let's focus on why we're raising cold-blooded killers." Except that even parents can't always stop these kids from growing up into monsters. In a free society where individuals make choices, there are problems that are unsolvable and this is one of them. It's not about guns, not about bombs, knives, it's about murder. We want to ban anything we can control, but what we really want to ban is violence, murder, and insanity, and yet we don't talk about that because we all know that violence is built into the human condition and likely always will be.
How about we hold parents personally responsible when their children commit crimes?
How about we hold parents personally responsible when their children commit crimes?
Be realistic. Parents can't supervisor their kids 24 hours a day 7 days a week, 365 days a year. The same way that we can't supervise 320 million Americans. Teenagers can keep secrets from their parents and it's not hard doing so. We've all been there. It's different when you have motives like what Cruz had. What would be your practical age limit to where parents would be liable? Paddocks parents are likely dead or in their 80's. Lanza killed his mother and his dad lived in NJ. Plus, what's the penalty? Jail time? What if they have other children? Then those children will be separated from their parents which will damage their development into adulthood.
Be realistic. Parents can't supervisor their kids 24 hours a day 7 days a week, 365 days a year. The same way that we can't supervise 320 million Americans. Teenagers can keep secrets from their parents and it's not hard doing so. We've all been there. It's different when you have motives like what Cruz had. What would be your practical age limit to where parents would be liable? Paddocks parents are likely dead or in their 80's. Lanza killed his mother and his dad lived in NJ. Plus, what's the penalty? Jail time? What if they have other children? Then those children will be separated from their parents which will damage their development into adulthood.
Parents should teach their children to follow the laws.
Outlaw the weapons of mass destruction used in these massacres.
And how would you collect the millions of those that are owned by Americans, you know that criminals won't turn theirs in? Why not focus on something that might work, like security at schools?
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