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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: steve harris who wrote (692294)1/11/2013 9:51:39 AM
From: SilentZ  Read Replies (6) of 1575343
 
>Your regulation of alcohol has been a complete failure based upon the statistics. You're all upset over 20 children killed in CT by an evil person, yet it doesn't bother you at all how many children this year will be affected by alcohol.

Once again, alcohol's primary purpose is not to kill things. Cars' primary purpose is not to kill things. Food's primary purpose is not to kill things. And for the most part, when we try to further regulate these things, y'all scream "BIG GOVERNMENT! TYRANNY!!!!!"

>Let me give you a different observation, the reaction to improve airline safety was to use armed air marshals yet the reaction to children being murdered in a school advertising "gun free zone" is to expand the gun free zones.

Those weren't my solutions. I don't agree with them at all.

>I'll bet at some time in the recent past, Newton CT had armed security in it's schools. I'd like to know who and why the decision was made to eliminate armed security. But that would show where the failure was wouldn't it? Can't have responsibility in today's culture teaching irresponsibility can we?

Is there any indication that one armed guard at a school prevents violence? I mean, perhaps if all of our schools were essentially police stations. But, that'd be a terrible environment for kids to learn, and from your side, do you really want taxpayers to pay to put a million cops in schools? And then what of other public places? You talk about tyranny. How about establishing a real police state?

None of these things are the solution. The school shootings are a red herring, for both sides of the debate. But I've said that over and over.

-Z
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