Bad guys with guns
Many are clamoring for stricter gun control laws or banning guns completely or even going after firearms manufacturers.
Bad guys love gun controls — the stricter the better. They also love gun-free zones becasuse none of it applies to them.
I have yet to see or hear of a gun removing itself from proper storage, loading itself, aiming itself and pulling its own trigger.
It’s not the guns, it’s the “perps,” many with mental health disorders.
I’ve never owned a firearm, but I support the Second Amendment, National Rifle Association and other firearm enthusiasts.
The best deterrent to a bad guy is still a good guy with a gun, especially if he or she is wearing blue.
Robert Requilman, Lihu‘e
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How many children accidentally shoot another child when they somehow find their parents guns? Are they the bad guys? It’s quite a high number. There are more guns than people in this country. More mass shootings than days this year so far. To get a drivers license and drive a car there are more steps than to own a gun.
Gun violence, predominate in the USA, is a huge problem that requires many aspects to solving it. First is acknowledging that we have a problem, which many do not. Gun advocates love to castigate the phrase gun control. No, its just a smart way of approaching a huge problem.
Still has nothing to do with the number of guns. The root cause is not that guns exist, it is called people. People with no accountability or responsibility to safely store said guns. People with mental disabilities that acquire guns.
The statistics are clear and speak for themselves: the more guns there are, the more people are shot.
Really, Andy?
You must have missed this from the FBI: https://www.richardcyoung.com/essential-news/fbi-stats-show-more-guns-equal-less-crime/
RSW
A truly intelligent species would recognize the truth about guns and find a way to eliminate them completely.
” To get a drivers license and drive a car there are more steps than to own a gun.”
Get your facts straight…there are more requirements for owning a gun than there are for obtaining a diver’s license. Importantly, one must be 21 years old to even apply to purchase a firearm in Hawaii. Additionally, one must complete either the Hawaii Hunter Education program or an NRA certified program recognized by the State of Hawaii. Moreover, each applicant is subjected to a background criminal and mental health check and must fill out the detailed ATF document. (you know, the one Hunter lied on??)
Once again, drsurf, you are stuck on the “blame the gun” nonsense. The problem of accidental shootings involving children is not a gun problem it is a parent problem. Only an untrained fool leaves any firearm where it can be accessed by others. That should be the target of those interested in curbing the problem. BTW: I assume you might blame pens, pencils and laptops for bad spelling and grammar?
RSW
Well said.
Like I said…
It’s always sad that innocent people are killed by guns. But to broad brush legal, registered and responsible gun owners with those “bad guy with guns” to push their gun control agenda is irresponsible. Tyrants are not as afraid of the “bad guys” with guns as they are of the well armed “good guys”. But confiscating weapons from legal gun owners is only the first step in disarming the whole. Circumventing the 2nd Amendment will lead to loss free speech, then we can forget about the rest of our rights. Disarming legal gun owners will only greatly increase the deaths of innocent people…yes, including children. Records show that many legally armed people were able to stop these bad guys. And history shows that “wannbe” tyrants were taken down by armed citizens time after time. We have always been beset by tyranny and always will. Every genocide was preceded by tyrants disarming the populace. Be very, very careful of what you wish for. There might come a time when you will be looking to hide behind a good guy with a gun…and good luck with that if there are no well armed good guys, The definition of insanity is “doing the same thing over and over (giving up your 2nd Amendment right) and expecting different results (genocide)”. Gun confiscation will always lead to absolute power and a politician with absolute power is the most dangerous entity the world has ever faced. Let history be your guide, lest we forget!
Good post…I would suggest, however, that the 1st Amendment has already been deeply eviscerated. Consider all of the “misinformation” misinformation and outright state censorship perpetrated by the FBI, CIA and their lackeys in the social media sphere. To say nothing of how many people have actually been arrested for exercising a constitutionally protected right. Sad state of affairs.
RSW
You live in fear. Fearful that someone will take your guns. Fear mongering. Fearful that you cannot live without your guns. Jesus had no gun. David only had a sling. Both prevailed against evil. Cowards live in fear.
Funny, that Hemingway loved guns and was even shown in a picture shooting a machine gun.
He killed grizzly bears who were killing cattle.
Don’t liberals love Hemingway?
Stop fighting – some farmers actually need guns for safety. And older people and women need them for protection against home invasions.
So, if you live far from the police – in some places in California (in the mountains) the police going up to the mountains in case of an emergency could take 1.5 hours. I even called their offices and asked them.
Not everyone lives in a city right near the police station.
Why are my remarks not published? My mother grew up on Kauai. My grandfather is buried there.
My first ancestors arrived there in 1897.
Apparently, from what I have seen on a census, my grandfather owned a parcel near Hanalei Bay where he farmed.
I try to go back when I can. I have taken my husband, children, etc.
My only relative in Hawaii now is a policeman in Honolulu.
Kauai is strangely like a magnet to me.
My mother’s brother became the Vice President of a major corporation in the Silicon Valley. You should let me talk. I try to encourage kids to stay in school.
Leilani
The sad thing is that I do not have even one picture of my mother taken in her childhood.
Her mother and father, Yuka (Dohi) and her husband, Nakamura, went back to Japan after a big tsunami in about 1950 or 1948? I have been over to Japan to see some of the family and they had a picture of me! But did not offer any of her.
I have some nice pictures taken of her in Honolulu where she moved after Kauai.
She was friends with a Chinese woman – May Ahmu? and May’s husband who was Hawaiian and played tennis. May was in Hawaii Five-O episodes and a greeter for Don Ho.
I went to the Lihue High School to try and do research about the 1930’s and whatever school she might have attended. Unfortunately, the schools in those days did not take individual pictures or even group pictures of the students.
I did find interesting pictures there – of children who looked very well cared for!
Their hair was nicely combed and their clothing often white. With bare feet, as she told me when I was growing up on the mainland.
I also contacted a Buddhist temple on Kauai and they actually had a record of my mother’s stepfather.
It is really HARD to do genealogy on Kauai. Probably more difficult than in Japan. Because there, the priests keep records of the families.
A friend who grew up on Kauai found my grandfather’s grave near Anini Beach on private property. Shinsaku Nagakura was his name. That was her birth father. His name was misspelled on the headstone as Nakakura.
Were the newspapers in the 1930’s only in Japanese? Were they ever translated?
In Japan the family said that Shinsaku was a doctor. I have no proof that I have seen.
Mahalo,
Shirley Leilani Weaver Sipler
Idaho (there are Hawaiians here…)