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Originally Posted by MaDalton
true - it just makes me cringe though when i see a 5 year old with "my first rifle"
can't help it
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I gotta say I grew up in the 1960's and we lived in a small town. EVERYBODY had guns.
And I do mean everybody. And yes...I had my first gun when I was 6 years old.
I wasn't allowed to keep it in my bedroom and "play" with it of course. But I was allowed to go hunting with my dad in the woods that were in the pastures that my family owned.
And the weird thing is...there wasn't any gun violence like we see today.
Even in high school...I graduated in 1979, and all the guys who drove pickup trucks had a gun rack in their truck.
In other words there were rifles and shotguns right there on school campus.
And nobody ever decided to shoot everybody else at school (maybe because they realized that everybody else had guns too).
I think L-Pink hit the nail on the head. Over 300 MILLION people in the U.S.
Every once in a while one of them goes full retard.
And when they walk into "gun free" zones like a school...then it's like picking low hanging fruit.
Nobody in the school can protect themselves.
Of course...with kids these days so numb to violence (video games, movies, etc), I damn sure wouldn't want a school full of those little bastards armed either.
I have to file it under "Sometimes bad shit happens"