Saturday, December 15, 2012

Here is why we must have gun contol.

Here is all you need to know why we must have gun control...

‎1. Charlotte Bacon (DOB 2/22/06)

2. Daniel Barden (9/25/05)

3. Rachel Davino (7/17/83)

4. Olivia Engel (7/18/06)

5. Josephine Gay (12/11/05)

6. Ana M. Marquez-Greene (4/4/06)

7. Dylan Hockley (3/8/06)

8. Dawn Hocksprung (6/28/65)

9. Madeleine F. Hsu (7/10/06)

10. Catherine V. Hubbard (6/8/06)

11. Chase Kowalski (10/31/05)

12. Jesse Lewis (6/30/06)

13. James Mattioli (3/22/06)

14. Grace McDonnell (11/04/05)

15. AnneMarie Murphy (07/25/60)

16. Emilie Parker (5/12/06)

17. Jack Pinto (5/6/06)

18. Noah Pozner (11/20/06)

19. Caroline Previdi (9/7/06)

20. Jessica Rekos (5/10/06)

21. Avielle Richman (10/17/06)

22. Lauren Russeau (6/1982)

23. Mary Sherlach (2/11/56)

24. Victoria Soto (11/4/85)

25. Benjamin Wheeler (9/12/06)

26. Allison N. Wyatt (7/3/06)



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  1. JamesDecember 17, 2012 at 12:18 AM

    Mr. Crawley,

    I recently had the great pleasure of meeting you. Afterwards, I made up my mind to check you out and read a book you told me about...the one about the death penalty case. This is actually the first time I've looked you up on the internet, although I've been meaning to, and I still haven't read your book yet. What can I say...I'm incredibly lazy. I WILL get around to it though.

    As it turns out, the very first thing I saw here (after reading your profile) was this comment. I know this is a horrible way to start things off, but hey, you have to start somewhere, right? I hope you don't take offense to anything I say here, but I feel a little differently than you (obviously) do regarding "gun control" and this incident. (Incidentally, I think most Texans would probably chime in here and say "gun control is being able to hit your target".)

    I honestly don't believe that more laws would have stopped this horrible tragedy from happening, and I don't think more laws will help in the future. Logically speaking, I'm reasonably certain that it's already a criminal offense under the Texas Penal Code to murder innocent people (as I'm sure it is under the laws of other states). Yet shockingly, it still happens. Apparently, criminals aren't too concerned about the consequences of breaking the law and do it all of the time anyway. (Who knew, right?)

    Don't get me wrong, I'm not advocating issuing Uzi's to all second graders to keep in their desks or anything like that, but I also don't think that infringing on the Constitutionally protected rights of decent, harmless Americans to protect themselves and their families from insane cowards, like the one who did this, is necessarily the right way to go either. I don't think it's right, I don't think it's legal, and most importantly, I don't think it will solve the problem. No law-abiding gun owner is responsible for this horrible situation. I think that if you disarm the good people who carry firearms, you'll simply end up with more victims if anyone ever tries to harm them or their family members. They most certainly do not add to the problem of lunatics killing innocent people, so punishing them for the crimes committed by someone else really doesn't make sense to me.

    Sorry if that came out sounding like a ranting gun nut. I didn't mean to come off sounding like that, it just sort of came out that way.

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  2. JamesDecember 17, 2012 at 12:19 AM

    Let's talk solutions, shall we?

    While I don't think that more gun laws will solve the problem or keep this from happening again, I do have a few ideas which might help, and would appreciate your thoughts regarding at least this one:

    I think it's a horrible idea to "lock down" a school when something like this happens. I think that the worst thing you could possibly do is to keep the children in the "kill zone", in close proximity to the flying metal, with no way to get out. If you were inside one of these classrooms with your own child, and you heard gunfire, wouldn't you take your child and leave, if it were possible? Wouldn't putting as much distance between your child and the bad guy be the ideal plan of action? I think it would be. (My actions would be totally different, but that's a separate conversation.) In my opinion, schools should scrap the "lock down" policy in favor of installing doors, which lead from each individual classroom to the outside, and having drills which train the teachers to take the kids out of the building, and away from the danger, when something like this happens.

    Just my two cents. (There's a lot more where that came from, if you'd like to take the discussion further.)

    Again, don't take offense to anything I've said here. I enjoyed meeting you and having the subsequent conversation regarding your book and my own personal situation dealing with civil law. I'll check back in when I have more time and read your other posts, and I assure you, I'll get around to buying that one book (at least).

    (Eventually.)
    ;)

    -James

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