Actually, you'd be surprised at the number of hunters and other gun owners that would agree to a small tax on ammunition or firearms sales, provided that the money would actually go to a program that insures this is taught. States already increased costs for range pass sales to help pay for range time, why not at a tax on that to go for the education as well?? I'm not talking about Billions of dollars here...just a few million to print posters to be hung in classrooms and the like.

Having those posters there would be a constant reminder to the students that they would see daily.

If you wanted to ramp it up to include a course on gun safety in the schools, then find a way to provide Federally operated ranges open to the public, and use revenue from that to fund those classes.

Ok, small tax on ammo sounds reasonable. Maybe also a small tax to pay for all the damage bullets cause, like with cigarettes. I'm sure hospitals would like to recoupe some of that.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. ( Desmond Tutu)

Sometimes people who have a weapon get themselves into trouble because of false courage inspired by the gun.

A local contractor who I know well and have worked with for years has a son who has always been a bit flakey. He got a divorce and about the same time got a Concealed carry permit.

One evening he was in a bar and got into an arguement with the bouncer. The bouncer dragged him outside and (I am told) started choking him. Fearing for his life (I am told) he drew his gun. Fortunately he did not shoot the bouncer but the bar pressed charges and the flakey son actually went to jail for pulling his gun (I am told) on the bouncer.

Poor judgement + alcohol + gun = a bad result for my friends flakey son.

The son has some kids too.

My friend the contractor is as good as they come, hardworking, honest and skilled, but he has had very bad luck with his kids. This one in jail, a daughter who OD'd too.

Very sad.

She is DEAD.

True
Very Sad
Not germane to THIS discussion.

so are 30 other people, none of which had a hand in the creation of this incident.

Im not sure where your sorrow for this woman comes from. She would be in jail right now for her criminal negligence as it stands were she alive and you can bet money that CT would be throwing the book at her.

That tax is already in place...it was supposed to go pay for smoker's related illness, wasn't it?

Let's get back to current times . . .

Mythbusting: Israel and Switzerland are not gun-toting utopias

"John was planning to wear a Santa costume and hand out candy to his classmates, his father said, when he posted, “Students of cchs in for a big surprise tomorrow.”

The new reality. Now imagen schools with overzealous ex cops and military personel as guards...

Yes, the decision to carry a gun for personal protection is a VERY serious one! Even someone who is EXTREMELY proficient with the gun, but has never been put in the rare situation of having to defend someone or himself with it for real, NEVER knows if they will actually be able to do so until the time comes. It might very well end up getting them deeper into a bad situation. If the time comes they will freeze and pee their pants or be able to think and possibly save themselves and others.

...........or use it to shoot some DB who desperately deserves it, but, unfortunately has the law on his side...........:mad:

"Less than 20 years ago, I was the target of a terrorist group. It was the New World Liberation Front. They blew up power stations and put a bomb at my home when my husband was dying of cancer and the bomb was set to detonate around 2 ‘o clock in the morning, but it was a construction explosive that doesn’t detonate when it drops below freezing. It doesn’t usually freeze in San Francisco, but on this night it dropped below freezing and the bomb didn’t detonate.

"I was very lucky, but I thought of what might have happened. Later the same group shot out all the windows of my home and I know the sense of helplessness that people feel. I know the urge to arm yourself, because that’s what I did. I was trained in firearms. When I walked to the hospital when my husband was sick, I carried a concealed weapon. I made the determination that if somebody was going to try to take me out I was going to take them with me. Now having said all of that, that was period of time ago and I’ve watched through these 20 years as terrorism has increased both on the far extremist left and the far extremist right in this country."

Senator Dianne Feinstein (D - CA)

Dang, that's not helping either.... Must practice better propaganda. brb

Yep! That reminds me of a line from some John Wayne movie; "I never killed anyone who didn't need killin'.":laughing:

That's why I have always mentioned a safe and not a hiding place.

Watered down laws are rarely effective. The current gun laws do not. They are ineffective and watered down. They allow anyone to buy a gun no questions asked. A law outlawing that would have an effect. Laws that allow such transactions are ineffective.