Interesting take on gun control

[fuzz77]

I was looking at the Nashville Tennessean today and checked out the Letters to the Editor. I thought the letter below made a pretty damn good point.


What's good for the goose …
According to The Tennessean's March 11, 2015, edition, "the Senate Judiciary Committee approved measures to allow guns in parks, guns in trunks of cars parked at schools or universities, guns at property used by but not owned by schools, and targets that explode."
One place that you cannot take a gun is the state Capitol building where the legislature works. If allowing guns makes other people's workplaces safer and guarantee Second Amendment rights, why not in our legislators' workplace?

 

[BlueRaider22]

Growing up in Tennessee, guys used to go hunting in the morning and then show up for school.......leaving their shotguns/rifles on their trucks' (or sometimes tractors') gunracks. Nobody cared.

 

[Bill Cosby]

Surprised to learn there are a bunch of jackass hypocrits in a state government. I generally have far more faith in officials put in place by gerrymandered districts.

 

[Deeeefense]

Hypocrisy at it's worst - exposed.

 

[Cawood86]

Originally posted by BlueRaider22:
Growing up in Tennessee, guys used to go hunting in the morning and then show up for school.......leaving their shotguns/rifles on their trucks' (or sometimes tractors') gunracks. Nobody cared.

Yep.

 

[fuzz77]

Originally posted by BlueRaider22:
Growing up in Tennessee, guys used to go hunting in the morning and then show up for school.......leaving their shotguns/rifles on their trucks' (or sometimes tractors') gunracks. Nobody cared.

We had a shooting club in high school...we'd shoot skeet and trap and would bring our shotguns and reloading supplies into the school shop (the shop teacher was the club sponsor) to clean our shotguns and reload shells. ...and yeah, there were gun racks w/shotguns and rifles in probably 2/3rds of the pickups in the parking lot every day. After football season was over I had my shotgun in the trunk of my car almost every day as I'd go duck hunting after school... In our club's picture in our yearbook we are all holding our guns. You're right, nobody cared.

Different times... but now there are groups of legislators pretty much everywhere who are trying to remove restrictions to allow weapons everywhere....except of course where THEY work.

 

[CatsFanGG24]

I would guess politicians could be easy public targets...

I get the hypocrisy arguments, but don't really think its apples to apples. (and I don't care about guns, do not plan on owning or shooting etc)

 

[We-Todd-Did]

It sounds like the legislators are in favor of protecting the freedoms of their constituents, but they also understand statistics.

 

[BlueRaider22]

Originally posted by fuzz77:

Originally posted by BlueRaider22:
Growing up in Tennessee, guys used to go hunting in the morning and then show up for school.......leaving their shotguns/rifles on their trucks' (or sometimes tractors') gunracks. Nobody cared.

We had a shooting club in high school...we'd shoot skeet and trap and would bring our shotguns and reloading supplies into the school shop (the shop teacher was the club sponsor) to clean our shotguns and reload shells. ...and yeah, there were gun racks w/shotguns and rifles in probably 2/3rds of the pickups in the parking lot every day. After football season was over I had my shotgun in the trunk of my car almost every day as I'd go duck hunting after school... In our club's picture in our yearbook we are all holding our guns. You're right, nobody cared.

Different times... but now there are groups of legislators pretty much everywhere who are trying to remove restrictions to allow weapons everywhere....except of course where THEY work.

We even had the "Ag Olympics" in which everyone got excused from school to watch and/or participate. We'd have tobacco spitting for distance, archery contest on the football field, etc. It was awesome.

 

[KyFaninNC]

Originally posted by BlueRaider22:
Growing up in Tennessee, guys used to go hunting in the morning and then show up for school.......leaving their shotguns/rifles on their trucks' (or sometimes tractors') gunracks. Nobody cared.Just takes a few nut jobs to go in a school and shoot innocent people to change things. What most people never understand is that it is NOT the gun that kills, it is the person holding the gun, and as Ron White said, "You can't fix stupid".

 

[JumperJack]

You can bet your ass there are guns in the legislature's building. On the hips of security guards. Keeping the people inside safe.

Was the letter writer trying to be a dumbass?

Actual hypocrisy would be where you try to take guns away from people while surrounding yourself with people who use guns to protect you.

 

[akers65]

Originally posted by KyFaninNC:

Originally posted by BlueRaider22:
Growing up in Tennessee, guys used to go hunting in the morning and then show up for school.......leaving their shotguns/rifles on their trucks' (or sometimes tractors') gunracks. Nobody cared.Just takes a few nut jobs to go in a school and shoot innocent people to change things. What most people never understand is that it is NOT the gun that kills, it is the person holding the gun, and as Ron White said, "You can't fix stupid".

agree with both of you, if guns kill mine are defective, since they haven't shot anyone

 

[TankedCat]

the problem to me is that over the years, those same politicians have opted to dramatically cut funding to address the mentally ill along with insurance companies.

if you couple that with a noticeable lack of legislation and awareness campaigns designed to keep guns out of the hands of *known* mentally ill people (no mother should leave guns lying around with a mentally disturbed child in the house) then its a recipe for these gun related tragedies.

I think it would go long way in preventing the knee jerk reactions of politicians and the public at large after these shootings if we focused on the real problem - mentally ill people with access to guns.

The common denominator in these mass shootings is not an assault rifle - its that the shooter is mentally ill - and in most cases is well known before the shooting event takes place.

But its infinitely easier to try to create blanket legislation or obstacles to gun ownership for everyone than it is to address the rights of the mentally ill.

This post was edited on 3/21 4:00 AM by TankedCat

 

[KyFaninNC]

^ WHAT percentage of people are crazy now, than say in the 60's or 70's? And if we have more insane people walking around than we did 50/60 years ago, what caused it?

 

[Conn501]

Originally posted by KyFaninNC:

^ WHAT percentage of people are crazy now, than say in the 60's or 70's? And if we have more insane people walking around than we did 50/60 years ago, what caused it?

Funding has been cut severely and many so called insane asylums shut down. Patients were put on the street. A very high percentage of homeless people are mentally ill. They are incapable of functioning in society. I know there are more than a few who dont fit that bill, but many do.

 

[warrior-cat]

Originally posted by fuzz77:

Originally posted by BlueRaider22:
Growing up in Tennessee, guys used to go hunting in the morning and then show up for school.......leaving their shotguns/rifles on their trucks' (or sometimes tractors') gunracks. Nobody cared.

We had a shooting club in high school...we'd shoot skeet and trap and would bring our shotguns and reloading supplies into the school shop (the shop teacher was the club sponsor) to clean our shotguns and reload shells. ...and yeah, there were gun racks w/shotguns and rifles in probably 2/3rds of the pickups in the parking lot every day. After football season was over I had my shotgun in the trunk of my car almost every day as I'd go duck hunting after school... In our club's picture in our yearbook we are all holding our guns. You're right, nobody cared.

Different times... but now there are groups of legislators pretty much everywhere who are trying to remove restrictions to allow weapons everywhere....except of course where THEY work.

Why not, they probably think that the real problem people will eliminate themselves and in the process save them money.