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What’s your opinion on gun control? Be nice! Everyone has the right to their opinion! No one has the right to be rude

[b]I think it’s important to keep the conversation going. No matter what your option is, let’s all “agree to disagree” and just talk about it. Let’s be kind and Caring and treat each other with respect because kindness is when real change happens. [/b]

It’s incredibly heartbreaking that this keeps happening and I try to get inside the mind of the families of the victims and try to understand the pain and imagine if it was someone I knew and loved.

Evil exists in this world. It always will. Elizabeth smart said In her first book something that really spoke to me. After the horror she endured for nine months she has this unbelievable strength and wisdom.

This is what she said.
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“I don’t think what happened to me was something that God intended. He surely would not have wished the anguish and torment that I was about to go through upon anyone, especially upon a child. But since that time, I have learned an important lesson. [/b]

Yes, God can make some good come from evil.
But even He, in all His majesty, won’t make the evil go away. Men are free. He won’t control them. There is wickedness in this world.Which left me with this: When faced with pain and evil, we have to make a choice.
We can choose to be taken by the evil.
Or we can try to embrace the good.

I don’t think it’s as simple as removing the guns. Yes guns play a role in these crimes but the Problem is so much deeper. Every single shooter has had some sort of mental health problem. Mental heath gone untreated is terrifying. Even the people who kidnapped Elizabeth were mentally insane.

Not everyone with mental heath struggles is a threat. I myself have struggled with depression and anxiety. By having better mental heath resources available! We can make a major change!!! Getting better mental heath background checks and with that it will help get the guns out of the hands of people who are mentally unstable.

I honestly don’t know what to think because I believe we have the right to bare arms. I myself don’t see myself ever wanting to own a gun but as a women I feel unsafe to even go for a run by myself. So if what happened to Elizabeth happens to me I might feel just a little bit safer having a gun. Especially since one of her kidnapers just got out of jail. I would not be able to sleep at night if I was her.

Yes!! All of these shootings never should have happened. However I believe, If it’s not guns, its bombs. If it’s not bombs, it’s chemical warfare. People can murder by a hit and run. People can murder by simply using a kitchen knife. Everyday children are kidnapped, raped, murdered by mentally ill individuals. Evil exists in the hearts of human beings not guns.

Again. You have the right to your option, please be kind. Treat others the way you want to be treated.
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4meAndyou · F
I have been thinking about gun control lately in terms only of controlling the AR15 rifle. Recently I watched a video showing the bullet from a hand gun going through ballistic gelatin which is very similar to a human body.

The bullet from the handgun drilled straight through the gel. The health care professional being interviewed stated that sort of wound is straightforward to repair in a human.

Then they showed the ammo from an AR15 rifle going through the ballistic gel, and the bullet from the AR15 goes in and then basically explodes, creating a balloon shape of damage which is extremely complicated to repair.

The AR15 rifle was developed as weapon of war for the military, and the ammo was designed to inflict maximum damage and make sure the enemy went down and stayed down.

I wonder to myself why it is necessary for private citizens to possess military weapons that are designed specifically for the military. As we have seen all too often recently, the AR15 in the hands of a madman will mow down citizens at an alarming rate and those citizens can not be easily repaired because of the ammo.

I think we need to examine very carefully the legalization and sale of military grade weapons.
can’t hold off a tyrannical government with muskets?
MKM22 · 26-30, F
@4meAndyou I agree, I don’t see the need for military weapons to be available to the public. But again people can make guns easily. So I don’t know. Thank you for keeping the conversation going. ❤️
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Virgo79 · 61-69, M
@4meAndyou a hollow point in any gun does about the same thing.
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4meAndyou · F
@Overwatch6 No one who owns one wants to let go...but I am thinking of my father, who bought a lot of guns and kept them in our attic. He passed away, and left all of his guns to my son, who was 16 when my father died.

My father didn't know what my son would grow up to be. He had no idea whether my son would be mentally stable or responsible, and yet there he was, a teenager, with a sh!tload of guns.

I think gun owners should think about things like that. And I think there should be some sort of legal storage requirement if you own an AR15. And I think that AR15 ammo should only be sold at certain dealers who are going to do serious, serious vetting.
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4meAndyou · F
@Virgo79 I don't think there are a lot of us with opinions about gun control who are actually familiar with guns. We are all just frightened.
Virgo79 · 61-69, M
@Overwatch6 very possible
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4meAndyou · F
@Overwatch6 Did you just tell me to sit and spin?
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Virgo79 · 61-69, M
@4meAndyou there should be videos of that on YouTube.
Hollow point bullets expand.
Just sayin
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