Gun Nut Kills Two Innocent Neighbors On Their Own Property

[Peach State Scholar]

I couldn't agree with you more. I've always been pro-2nd Amendment. But, lately, with all of the shootings going on for no reason, it's made me rethink my stance and wonder if it's still valid.

A month or so ago, some guy allegedly cut someone off in traffic through a merge, and the guy who was cut off, took out a gun and shot the guy. The guy didn't even realize he was shot until a later. He ended up being shot in the shoulder. So, I can only imagine that the guy doing the shooting was going for a head shot. Seriously?!? For cutting you off at a merge? WTF is wrong with people? And imagine if the guy had a child in the backseat. The bullet may have hit the child instead.

I've had the same feeling that this land is becoming lawless.

It's a scary time to be living. People are out of work and desperate. Or other factors are contributing to the craziness that people are experiencing.

Even worse, a lot of people don't even seem to care about things like that. They're a lot more concerned with the whole "out of my cold, dead hands" mentality almost to the exclusion of everything else. I wonder about the mindset of the kind of person who feels the need to carry a gun with them at all times. Movie theaters, little league games, bars and restaurants...when does it end?

 

[flaminghetero]

People completely discount how people act when they feel they have impunity.

Fact is, there are whole swathes of people in this country who wake up snarling and growling about black people and go to bed snarling and growling about black people. Signal that they have impunity to fire, and what do you get? People looking to fire.

Wisdom of the BM on display.

 

[orejon4]

It's made even worse by the fact that people with guns tend to be a lot more brave and a lot more reckless. I strongly doubt that the guy in the movie theater who shot the father for texting would have said anything if he didn't have his gun with him. The same thing with Zimmerman: if he didn't have a gun and didn't want to play wannabe police officer that never would have happened.

I don't think the Second Amendment should be abolished but sometimes I wonder if this country is obsessed with guns to the point of self-destruction.

Yes, this conflation of citizen and consumer produces people who, instead of a sense of obligation or respect for others, go through society like a disgruntled shopper the day after Thanksgiving, demanding what they want, when they want it and how they want it. Crossing this person is a dangerous thing to do. Someone with the self-control of a 2-year old and deadly force at his disposal. Giving this person a firearm? Now THAT'S responsible behavior.

I couldn't agree with you more. I've always been pro-2nd Amendment. But, lately, with all of the shootings going on for no reason, it's made me rethink my stance and wonder if it's still valid.

A month or so ago, some guy allegedly cut someone off in traffic through a merge, and the guy who was cut off, took out a gun and shot the guy. The guy didn't even realize he was shot until a later. He ended up being shot in the shoulder. So, I can only imagine that the guy doing the shooting was going for a head shot. Seriously?!? For cutting you off at a merge? WTF is wrong with people? And imagine if the guy had a child in the backseat. The bullet may have hit the child instead.

I've had the same feeling that this land is becoming lawless.

It's a scary time to be living. People are out of work and desperate. Or other factors are contributing to the craziness that people are experiencing.

Yeah, the economy and social breakdown and other factors have to be pushing people to the breaking point. And throwing easy access to guns into the mix and you've got a recipe for havoc.