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Originally Posted by aohige
You also need to realize the fallacy in That rhetoric.
No, guns do not "cause" the crime. Gun advocates always repeat this point regardless of the fact that is not the point.
Guns do not cause the incident to spark. It simply escalates it.
It increases the severity of the crime.
THAT is the problem.
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Even I, a multi-generational gun owner concede that. But it is really frustrating that so little has been done in the K-12 system to BOTH identify/help these outcasts AND stomp out the kind of subhuman barnyard bullying that leads to this.
When I was in high school (way back in the 70s), a special ed student stabbed a student in the cafeteria line and he died. Everyone boohooed over the death - but the one stabbed had been a A1 jackass bully for as long as I'd known him (he had roughed me up so many times in 3rd grade I finally went nuts on him - lucky for him I was just throwing a desk at him) He had terrorized the spec.ed student, students had reported it, the school had ignored it, and finally the spec.ed student carried a knife for defense. And one final time, the jackass "had fun" with him and he panicked.