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In reply to the discussion: NRA schools report suggests training staff in weapons [View all]Paladin
(28,173 posts)...of wanting schools, offices, shopping malls, movie theaters, etc. to be free of guns. I guess that sort of world is just something folks like you have given up on. For you, it's just a question of arming up and taking on the Bad Guys, and the sooner the better. And maybe that's where we are---God knows, our free-and-easy gun laws have allowed untold numbers of sick people to acquire arms and ammunition with ease, and there are probably years of Newtown-like tragedies in our future. That being said, it doesn't mean we should be happy and accepting of the situation. I refuse to believe you're on the correct side of this issue, that more guns is the solution to the problem. And I say that as a life-long gun owner, as somebody who put his guns away when the shooting sports in this country became radicalized to the point I no longer wanted to be associated with them. There's got to be a better way than the dark avenue the gun militancy movement is going down.