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. . . . . people who allow their children access to loaded guns they can take to school kill people. Or damn near do:
http://news.msn.com/crime-justice/mother-of-boy-who-brought-gun-to-school-sentenced
I'm not categorically opposed to private ownership of firearms. But I am completely appalled by the American Romance of the Gun culture we have developed. This very evening I was subjected to a currently popular country-western song in which the singer boasted that "where I come from . . . I got a gun in my truck."
That sounds like a satirical cliché, but I garontee it isn't. This attitude is by no means new. Nearly a half-century ago now, the first publicly-noticed major mass slaughter-by-firearm took place in Austin, Texas, when Charles Whitman killed his family, then drove with an arsenal to the University of Texas campus where he invaded the famous Texas Tower, overlooking the city, killing at least one other person on his way in, then barricated him self 27 stories or so up, and commenced to sniping dozens of victims in the open public area around it. More than a dozen were killed, many others wounded. His siege occupied several hours, and made live national news. Eventually a heroic effort by a cop and a private citizen put an end to it, by killing him.
After the horror, his father was interviewed, and told reporters with obvious pride that Whitman had been brought up in a culture of guns, and that he, himself, was "a gun nut."
I'm not opposed to guns, but I am damn sure opposed to "gun nuts."
caw
http://news.msn.com/crime-justice/mother-of-boy-who-brought-gun-to-school-sentenced
I'm not categorically opposed to private ownership of firearms. But I am completely appalled by the American Romance of the Gun culture we have developed. This very evening I was subjected to a currently popular country-western song in which the singer boasted that "where I come from . . . I got a gun in my truck."
That sounds like a satirical cliché, but I garontee it isn't. This attitude is by no means new. Nearly a half-century ago now, the first publicly-noticed major mass slaughter-by-firearm took place in Austin, Texas, when Charles Whitman killed his family, then drove with an arsenal to the University of Texas campus where he invaded the famous Texas Tower, overlooking the city, killing at least one other person on his way in, then barricated him self 27 stories or so up, and commenced to sniping dozens of victims in the open public area around it. More than a dozen were killed, many others wounded. His siege occupied several hours, and made live national news. Eventually a heroic effort by a cop and a private citizen put an end to it, by killing him.
After the horror, his father was interviewed, and told reporters with obvious pride that Whitman had been brought up in a culture of guns, and that he, himself, was "a gun nut."
I'm not opposed to guns, but I am damn sure opposed to "gun nuts."
caw
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