Anyone with functional arms and hands can learn how to shoot. I have an autistic cousin who's dumber than bean dip and can shoot the wings off a fly at 50 yards (fly sized/shaped dots on the target paper). No formal training required, it wasn't hard for him to "borrow" one of his older brother's rifles and figure out how it worked.

The bigger issue is all the video game/movie addicted loons who think that the real world reflects all the "harmless" gore and violence depicted in their favorite past time. Real world shooting incidents were not all that common when high schools still had JROTC and rifle ranges (instead of, maybe, at best, pellet guns), the BSA was allowed to teach the shooting arts with actual military range officers running the program, people still hunted for food instead of trophies (you can't eat antlers, and a wasted shot would get your ass beat when you got home, ammo is expensive, make every shot count)...

It isn't whether or not more people know how to shoot. It is whether or not they have the ability to grasp what the consequences of their actions will be. The entire crop of kids raised with the "touchy feely self esteem before else, can't let them fail at anything because you might damage their egos" sissy mentality have zero concept of personal responsibility, consequences, or proper ethics.

Try again Bill.

bill67 wrote on 04/13/13 at 08:11:59:


Still not a reason to surrender our country to a dictator. If a million people were shot tomorrow it still is not enough justification to strip us of our right to defend ourselves from the government, a right we need all the more desperately these days.

The solution is easy - they should just have shot the shooter before he shot them. If that fails, they should shoot the bullet. I dont know why they cant remember this simple rule.

Cool.
Srinath.

45acp wrote on 04/13/13 at 20:26:57:


Dude the govt can crush you any second they please.
Your guns are not gonna make any difference. How many times to tell you this. You have a tank ? Not your gas tank, something like an M16 ?

Cool.
Srinath.

Dane Allen wrote on 04/13/13 at 23:14:58:


It's the little print they wipe their backsides with every single day...  

I learned to shoot in High School in the FFA Program. I haven't killed anyone yet. Someone's gonna get shot everyday, some deserve it, some don't. I don't like it but its a fact of life! Conneticcut had an assault weapons ban. I guess it will work just as wonderful in the other 49 states as it did Conneticut. You're a moron if you think you can do away with guns. We need armed gaurds to kill these crazy pilled up bastards, not more stupid laws that wont work.

Midnightrider wrote on 04/14/13 at 21:41:23:


A fantastic point and I will add that it is the fault of the law with respect to a false sense of security that this tragedy happened. Had people come to terms sooner with what 45 said then this may not have happened. A placard that says "Gun Free Zone" may as well say "Criminals and Psychos Are Safe Here" because that is what it means.