Especially when you include those who commit mass murder through others.
All of the skills associated with marksmanship are commendable, and in my suggestions I've looked for ways to preserve pursuits like target shooting. But I'd also note that none of those skills are unique to firearm usage. I recommend yoga and meditation ;-)
I tend to associate gun violence with men, and statistics back me up. Hence my comments about adolescent testosterone-fueled fantasies. I think your comments might actually reinforce gender differences in the psychology of gun usage and ownership. The logic of self-defense is different, with male swagger in evidence in the image of the brave frontiersmansuburban househusband facing down an intruder to defend his family. Your portrait of an abused woman using a gun as physical equalizer is a very different thing, psychologically, I'd say. Yet even this scenario can get complicated, enough so to be perennial fodder for Lifetime movies.
Mrs. Lanza was quite well-armed, I must point out.
I'd be willing to play the odds and make it tougher for men to get guns and leave women be. But we know that won't fly any more. We have to hold women to the same low standards as men.
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Mass murderers are almost always men
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- 250 years of school shootings
- People are going to get sick no matter what we do, so why bother building hospitals?
- If you're suggesting there is nothing we can do to stop gun violence, I disagree n/t
- I'm not suggesting any such thing.
- Funny, I was't trying to make a point. n/t
- I noticed that
- The pornography analogy is apt.
- and
- "I’m sure you can guess where I think gun violence comes from."
- Please proceed.
- Black on Black or gang related for starters. n/t
- Citizens are citizens.
- Gangs of New York
- See? Thread's already dead.
- Black on Black or gang related for starters. n/t
- Please proceed.
- Maybe the problem is the underlying premise that something can always be "done."
- Cooler heads.
- The pornography analogy is apt.
- And yet, you did.
- I noticed that
- Funny, I was't trying to make a point. n/t
- I'm not suggesting any such thing.
- If you're suggesting there is nothing we can do to stop gun violence, I disagree n/t
- People are going to get sick no matter what we do, so why bother building hospitals?