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Would the leaders of the NRA reconsider if their kids had been killed today?

They are adamant in their stance that easy access to cheap guns is not even PART of the problem, and that there should be NO attempt to limit access to guns. But I wonder if they would have even a moment of doubt if they had to face every parent's worst nightmare? Or would they just shake it off and say, "This wouldn't have happened if Susie had been allowed to bring a gun to school in her lunchbox"?

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  • 8 years ago
    Favorite Answer

    I think that the leaders of the NRA would purchase MORE weapons if they had lost a child in this incident. And I would not blame them.

  • wtinc
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    Chicago has the strongest gun laws the only ones who can have a gun is the police. Tell me today where were the police don’t get me wrong they did the best they could, but there is no way they could have protected all those people the fact is that Chicago with there stick gun laws had over 500 gang related homicides last year and another 400 domestic violence. So no guns is not the answer. Mental health laws is.

  • David
    Lv 6
    8 years ago

    If the teachers had been armed, this never would have happened.

    Fifty years ago, it was legal in many states for the teachers to carry guns on them if they wished.

    fifty years ago, when an incident like this started, the armed teachers stopped it, before the criminal had a chance to do much damage.

    Today, it is illegal for teachers to be armed. That means that teachers cannot stop an incident like this.

    It often takes the police 20 to 30 minutes to respond. The criminal can do an enormous amount of damage in 20 to 30 minutes.

    That is why you have shootings like this today. Because there is no person on the school site who has the ability to stop the criminal.

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  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    You've been brainwashed and I can tell before even reading to the end of the first line of your question. You refer to "cheap guns". Have you looked at what guns cost now? The 1968 Gun Control Act took "cheap guns" off the list. Where have you been since then? Asleep under a tree, Rip van Winkle?

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    No because they know that good people owning guns don't do this stuff.

    A madman should not be an excuse to remove our rights.

  • ?
    Lv 5
    8 years ago

    It seems they are so narrow minded and stuck on their political views that they would justify it somehow. Someone who has a good mind has a mind that has the ability to change and adjust as new situations come about.

  • You are so stupid!

    Guns are used to thwart more crime than they are to commit violent crimes, that's why the places with the highest crime rates are the same places with the strictest gun laws...

  • ?
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    They would shoot back and kill the criminal before he could kill innocent kids.

    I know, you believe that policeman should come and arrest that guy.

    Did policeman come?

  • 8 years ago

    If they were irrational, yeah. The psychos can use knifes instead:

    http://news.yahoo.com/knife-wielding-man-injures-2...

  • 8 years ago

    maybe they would take their guns and shoot the killer...

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