OMG Another school shooting!! :( :( :(

[Darth Penguin]

One of the little girls killed was from Winnipeg Ana Grace Marquez Greene.Winnipeg is the murder capital of Canada and this poor little girl gets killed in a so called safe American community.

The family had moved there 2 months ago..

[DaveP]

Buried in the headlines a responsible gun carryer in a situation like this.

http://www.kgw.com/news/Clackamas-ma...183593571.html

PORTLAND -- Nick Meli is emotionally drained. The 22-year-old was at Clackamas Town Center with a friend and her baby when a masked man opened fire.

"I heard three shots and turned and looked at Casey and said, 'are you serious?,'" he said.

The friend and baby hit the floor. Meli, who has a concealed carry permit, positioned himself behind a pillar.

"He was working on his rifle," said Meli. "He kept pulling the charging handle and hitting the side."

The break in gunfire allowed Meli to pull out his own gun, but he never took his eyes off the shooter.

"As I was going down to pull, I saw someone in the back of the Charlotte move, and I knew if I fired and missed, I could hit them," he said.

Meli took cover inside a nearby store. He never pulled the trigger. He stands by that decision.

"I'm not beating myself up cause I didn't shoot him," said Meli. "I know after he saw me, I think the last shot he fired was the one he used on himself."

The gunman was dead, but not before taking two innocent lives with him and taking the innocence of everyone else.

"I don't ever want to see anyone that way ever," said Meli. "It just bothers me."

He didn't fire because he knew an innocent could be hurt unintentionally. But the bad guy saw him. And if the bad guy continued firing he would have been fired upon.

Gun owners are not lunatics, or B movie cowboys. But this story gets almost no coverage because it does not fit in with the agenda of the anti-gun lobby. Sickening.

[lecale]

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[Jina]

Anything can happen. Your kid can have a depression without you knowing, he could be bullied at school and build a lot of anger inside him and one day he can snap and if you have a gun at home that he know of, there's a chance he will use it. This is just one example.
I certainly will never understand people who keep guns at home when they have kids living under the same roof.
Of course they have a right to feel safe, but hey, who would feel safe in a country where guns are so accessible.

[Darth Penguin]

They register guns, they register kids in school, they register sex offenders...should people with mental illnesses be registered too? Would it help?

IIRC, in some states people who have been treated for mental illness can't buy guns. but that doesn't stop people who haven't been treated and NRA has problems with people with convictions for domestic violence not being able to buy guns...

[Darth Penguin]

[Mrs H]

Yet you want to take the guns away from all these people who DON'T shoot people. Odd.

As far as we know, Adam Lanza hadn't shot anyone before Friday. Nancy Lanza never shot anyone either.

[DaveP]

As far as we know, Adam Lanza hadn't shot anyone before Friday. Nancy Lanza never shot anyone either.

And I've never stabbed anyone - better take away my steak knives. I've never set anyone on fire either, better make sure the government confiscates my bic lighter...

[BC Gal]

The only law that would have changed anything would be making automatic and semi-automatic guns illegal, which should be done. But since it was not his gun, mental heath checks, etc. would not have mattered unless his mother was unstable.

[Natalka]

[Patty Smyth]

Governor of Connecticut on CNN right now, me thinks he is not much of a gun enthusiast.

[Patty Smyth]

[Patty Smyth]

Flawless logic, not.

[Mrs H]

And I've never stabbed anyone - better take away my steak knives. I've never set anyone on fire either, better make sure the government confiscates my bic lighter...

If thousands were dying each year by way of steak knife or Bic lighter, then yes, I would say that the "right to own" those items would need to be examined too. But that is not the case.

[DH666]

These people make me sick!

http://www.humanevents.com/2012/12/1...hook-funerals/