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To: TopCat who wrote (1055044)	2/16/2018 4:50:58 PM
From: J_F_Shepard	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573545

Who benefits from the tragedies we've been seeing? When Obama was first elected we had a mom and pop gun store on a back road that had a line of cars and trucks a 1/2 mile long trying to get in to buy an AR-15... You want to bring up video games...? The beneficiaries are the gun sellers and the NRA....more guns are sold in the aftermath of mass shootings or other terrorist attacks....

To: TopCat who wrote (1055044)	2/17/2018 1:53:21 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573545

TopCat, It's simply not a gun problem except for guns getting in the wrong hands and a violence oriented society.....video games, movies, etc. It's a culture problem. Video games and movies alone aren't the issue. Gun control is all but inevitable now. Our postmodern society has taught people that there is no heaven and hell. Everyone is just living for the moment. John Lennon's "Imagine" became reality. Well guess what? These mass shooters lived in the moment. And they know there's nothing to stop them. Teachers would rather disarm everyone else than to arm themselves. Makes sense, too, at least from a certain perspective. They're teachers, not soldiers or police officers. Maybe we should put more plain clothes police officers in schools. Heck, why shouldn't we? Too expensive? For God's sake, our federal budget is now $4.4T, and almost one trillion of that is on our nation's credit card. Like Cheney said, "Deficits don't matter." Surely we can afford 200,000 more cops. Tenchusatsu P.S. - These are thoughts off the top of my head. I reserve the right to take back anything I said.