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Even if it comes down to the parents, this isn't a utopia. There's an anomaly that will ALWAYS exist. 6,000,000,000 won't be perfect, except in some deranged twlight zone. For all those other incidents, we have personal responsibility. Parents can only do so much. They can't think for these kids, feel for these kids, earn for these kids, learn for these kids, love for these kids, or live for these kids. Kids aren't raised right b/c they're either neglected or coddled so badly they can't function when a woman won't accept them. In either case, some neglected teens turn out quite good and successful, and other's who are coddeld and given EVERY advantage in life turn out more fvcked up than any imagined. So what do you do then?
As for packing weapons...assuming people are trained, they wouldn't freeze up. We're not talking about just Buying a gun, but actually learning to be self-sufficient here. We look out at the expanse of the world, and although LIFE functions on the basic premise of "sharing" (ie plants share their o2 with us, while we give back Co2, sun shares its light, atoms share amongst each other, energy is shared) humans don't see it. They don't see we exist as one unit, on 1 planet, together. But they're neglectful.
"Oh the police would save me."
"Oh the military will protect me."
"Oh my parents have money and will cover me."
"Oh I'm upset, my gf will make me feel whole and good again."
"Oh I'm down, food, tv, or porn will make me feel high again."
"Oh I didn't save for retirement, social security will protect me."
"Oh I don't carry health insurance, the GOV will pick it up."
We're at the top of maslow's hierarchy of needs, and don't give a hoot for anything else. Food is thrown in supermarkets, but we pay no mind to how toxic it is. Drugs are made daily by fortune 500 companies, with no greater track record than a few years, and people trust them over nature remedies. We squabble over the intricacies of people and their various nuances, only because we can. We have that luxury. Until a tragic moment like this happens and it wakes people up, for a time. Just like 9-11 did.
We've subcontracted every essential element to living...finding food and preparing it, protecting and fending for ourselves, communication, connection, thought, resource management. Boil it down to nothing, make life simple and easy because that's how we believe it should be. But it isn't that way. I'd rather befriend a loner, who's 100% self sufficient, so in the off chance shyt hits the fan, we can take care of it, than befriend a "sharing-caring" friend who subcontracts his/her whole life. A person who's self sufficient is 100%. You can rely on them. A person who isn't self-sufficient, who relies on other people, isn't there. They're 50%. Their answers depend on someone or something else.
So yes, people should pack guns, and be raised to be self-sufficient. EACH person should act as if they are a separate unit of the whole, whereby our nation and society are stronger. We are WEAKER because the pieces are WEAKER, so we compensate by beefing up controls, and mechanisms, security, police, taxes, government, the military, etc. Look at the "CONSCIOUSNESS" of man. Interdependence. In a world where all the previous toils of man are now EASY, we can be MORE self-sufficient, and also MORE effective interdependently.
It would appear that specialization is hurting some, and helping other's. If you believe in "survival of the fittest", those who specialize will die, and still other's will live, because the fittest will be dependent on what's needed, so some will be 100% ok, and other's will be 0% ok. Those who have specialized for 20, 30, and 40 years are now finding they're out of work, downsized, right sized, or shipped overseas. So what's more important...generalization? Balance?
Sure, if you buy a gun off the rack, without any training and without regular trips to the gunrange, you're screwed. However, if you make learning about protection, finance, self defense, basic home medical situations, you'll have a GREAT likelihood of success in ALL situations. That's what I'm talking about her. Not giving every food a gun and treating it like a paintball match. Furthermore, in a class of 30, if everyone was allowed to pack, at LEAST one would have th guts to do something. Moreover, IF this guy knew his school packed, unfortunately he may have only gone for his xgf, and not the whole class.
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