Amore wrote:2 common factors among shooters are prescription mind-altering drug use & fatherlessness.
Amore wrote:Who said it would or is? There are already many gun restrictions. What more, specifically, do you (or those blaming guns) want regarding gun laws that are not already in place?
Let's get some help from the NRA:
NRA wrote:There are many reasons why you as a gun owner should seriously consider investing in a gun safe. The first is to prevent children who are too young to understand gun safety from gaining access to your firearms...and even if your children are well-educated and responsible, consider that their friends may not be.
According to Amore, the NRA's reasoning for getting a gun safe is a logical fallacy. Let me explain. Suppose your children are well-educated and responsible, and understand gun safety. Now, suppose the friends of your children don't have a father and and are taking prescription mind-altering drugs. Already, your family has many rules, such as no touching the guns and ammo that sit on prominent display in the living room. What more can you possibly do? Oh, get a gun safe? Why blame the gun by putting it in a safe, which is literally a jail for guns? It's not the gun's fault. The only logical solution is to set the friends' mother up on some dates so the children can get a father figure back in their lives. while the mother is out on her dates, preferably with man with an arsenal who can teach gun safety to her kids, permission should be requested to take the children to a homeopath where they can get natural healing to whatever conditions they have and get off the mind altering medication. While we're working on these long-term solutions for the children's friends, the guns should remain right there in the living room where they always have been. It doesn't follow -- non-sequitur -- that because the friends of the children have all these problems that may turn them to violence that the gun is at fault.