I Do Not Support Gun Control

I would hate that the government could take away my guns. I have a right to have them.

When you hear about the school shootings, the senseless murders from people that have mental issues. I think that we need to realize that we cannot control everything. I feel badly for all involved the parents, the children, teachers, community, getting killed in schools. That is tragic and sadly becoming a common thing.

I remember when I was a kid, I never heard of any such thing happening. I think our society has made some huge changes that have affect peoples minds, their thought processes and the lack of taking ownership for their behavior.

In a nutshell, people have lost what I was taught as a child, morals, respect have integrity. We respected our elders, teachers, other parents, older siblings, people of authority, etc. We brought up children as a community. Parents, grandparents, teachers, church community and the neighborhood community. Kids were taken care of and we knew we had people that cared about us if our parents were absent.

Now no one wants to get involved because they will probably get more in trouble than if they had stayed out of it. So children are falling through the cracks. They have no one to go to any more. Many teacher want to be "Friends" now and not a person of authority so that does not help.

It takes one good action that you do for a kid to effect their lives forever. You might never know it, but that kid will remember it. I know I had one person do that for me. She changed my belief in something and I remember her to this day. One bad action could harm a child for life as well. It takes one comment from a person to make a kid feel that he does not matter and once that is in him, it will stay for a while unless he learns to dismiss it. Enough of my thoughts.

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NaturalBeautyQueen · 41-45, F

Just because you never heard of shootings when you were a kid, doesn’t mean it never happened. There are tons of mass shootings that you don’t hear about on the news. The news didn’t report there were 18 mass shootings, until the one in FL happened.

Nobody wants to take away your guns. People die in car accidents. But nobody is taking cars away. The moment people were being killed in car accidents due to texting and driving, they made a law not to text and drive. The drinking age used to be 18. Smoking used to be 16. But something happened to where the drinking age became 21 and the smoking age 18. But when it comes to guns, there’s no change. It hadn’t been since 1949, when the first mass shooting happened in America. There’s a pattern and people are ignoring it. Because the focus is the worry about having their guns taken away, rather than seeing the entire picture. I don’t understand that and don’t expect to because I’m not a gun owner. I have nothing against it. It’s just not my thing.

I don’t believe that every person owning a gun or multiple guns, are going to go off killing people. I know responsible gun owners, as friends and family. And I do not believe that guns are the only issue. I do feel that we’ve got the wrong people carrying. Am I talking about the mentally ill. No, because according to the DSM, we are all mentally ill. There’s mental illness in other countries. But there are mentally ill people that are either undiagnosed and ignore, to people that are diagnosed mentally ill, treated, then take themselves off medications because they “feel better”, then find themselves having suicide and homicidal thoughts, that also go ignored.

Enough said, but will close with this.... Gunowners in their early to mid 20’s, with severe mental illnesses, that stop treatment without the consent or the supervision by a professional, is the pattern that people choose to ignore.