DaveW wrote:Cybernetic pig wrote:Guns aren't the main issue, it's bad parenting. Imo.
I'm pretty sure the shooter didn't use 'bad parenting' to kill people.
"Guns dont kill people, people kill people"
Take away the guns, then you'll just get makeshift bombs or knifes used by the psychopaths.
Instead of gun control, enforce parenting control*. This (ideally) would raise children to an acceptable social level.
*Sounds extreme, I know. But it doesn't have to be like that.
All the victims were shot multiple times, said H. Wayne Carver II, Connecticut's chief medical examiner. Their deaths -- as well as that of Nancy Lanza, Adam's mother who suffered "multiple gunshot wounds" at their Newtown home -- are classified as homicides.
Note that he killed his mother before going to the school.
Clearly there were issues at home.
bobby 55 wrote:If you're old enough to form your own opinions and make your own decisions then the only one to blame for your actions is *you. Mental aberrations aside.
Who you are is mostly determined by the first 20 or so yrs of your life. If the boy was raised with constant beatings, trauma or whatever, there are going to be psychological issues.
Maybe some are just born evil, but relentless attempts by the parents to raise the child properly, with love, affection, education and dominance would at least change the child for the better.
Just so you know I am not pro gun freedom or whatever. But they are not the
main issue here, like the majority of the internet/media/politicians so strongly believes.
@Dave refering back to your mention of the U.K:
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/five-chi ... 98840.html
I had a friend who grew up in Ealing, London. The stories he used to tell...
It's the psychological issues derived from bad parenting and the social stigma why these people behave in such a way. Banning guns aint gonna save London youth cos they are already banned, and stabbings are more common in London than shootings anyway.
The statistics show that in the eight-month period:
• A total of 321 children were injured in shootings, 39 of them seriously.
• Eighty-eight children were shot in armed muggings and two were injured in gunpoint rapes.
• A total of 952 children were stabbed, 188 of them seriously.
• Some 288 children were hurt in knifepoint robberies and 10 were stabbed in rapes.
Those are some insane statistics (from 2008, not that it matters). Gun control would most likely reduce a great amount of premature deaths in america though, I cannot deny that, since they are such effective killing tools.