Comments on: Ghost of Columbine… in Canada http://www.john-wright.net/2006/09/13/ghost-of-columbine-in-canada/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ghost-of-columbine-in-canada Not Facebook Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:58:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: John Wright http://www.john-wright.net/2006/09/13/ghost-of-columbine-in-canada/comment-page-1/#comment-416 John Wright Tue, 03 Oct 2006 04:45:00 +0000 http://www.john-wright.net/2006/09/13/ghost-of-columbine-in-canada/#comment-416 For those still reading this post after 10/2/2006, it looks like another school shooting today at an Amish schoolroom: about 10 females shot execution-style by a milk-truck driver with a 20-year grudge. There are no good solutions to the problem of suicidal people who wish to take others down with them; we're feeling the same problem with Islamist terrorism. But I'm really beginning to wonder if it isn't time to start permitting teachers to carry concealed weapons and to offer defence courses as part of their training. For those still reading this post after 10/2/2006, it looks like another school shooting today at an Amish schoolroom: about 10 females shot execution-style by a milk-truck driver with a 20-year grudge. There are no good solutions to the problem of suicidal people who wish to take others down with them; we’re feeling the same problem with Islamist terrorism. But I’m really beginning to wonder if it isn’t time to start permitting teachers to carry concealed weapons and to offer defence courses as part of their training.

]]> By: Stephen http://www.john-wright.net/2006/09/13/ghost-of-columbine-in-canada/comment-page-1/#comment-376 Stephen Wed, 20 Sep 2006 20:50:00 +0000 http://www.john-wright.net/2006/09/13/ghost-of-columbine-in-canada/#comment-376 Well...it depends on who has the guns really, doesn't it? I would have thought common sense would make that clear to anyone with more than 3 neutrons firing in their heads. Are guns in the hands of the police or military bad? And, like I said earlier, bad guys already have or can acquire guns. Now, why not the rest of us?<br/><br/>SG Well…it depends on who has the guns really, doesn’t it? I would have thought common sense would make that clear to anyone with more than 3 neutrons firing in their heads. Are guns in the hands of the police or military bad? And, like I said earlier, bad guys already have or can acquire guns. Now, why not the rest of us?

SG

]]> By: CS http://www.john-wright.net/2006/09/13/ghost-of-columbine-in-canada/comment-page-1/#comment-374 CS Wed, 20 Sep 2006 20:45:00 +0000 http://www.john-wright.net/2006/09/13/ghost-of-columbine-in-canada/#comment-374 It is a long hashed out debate but really common sense prevails when people realize that guns are not beneficial to society. It is a long hashed out debate but really common sense prevails when people realize that guns are not beneficial to society.

]]> By: JT http://www.john-wright.net/2006/09/13/ghost-of-columbine-in-canada/comment-page-1/#comment-360 JT Sun, 17 Sep 2006 01:04:00 +0000 http://www.john-wright.net/2006/09/13/ghost-of-columbine-in-canada/#comment-360 Yes I have yet to see anyone including the Brady campaign to whom you rightly refer in your previous posts on this issue adequately link gun control laws to reduced crime. As you pointed out in previous months the opposite seems to be true. Thankfully in the U.S. at least there is no shortage of people willing to point that out to the blinded liberals. Yes I have yet to see anyone including the Brady campaign to whom you rightly refer in your previous posts on this issue adequately link gun control laws to reduced crime. As you pointed out in previous months the opposite seems to be true. Thankfully in the U.S. at least there is no shortage of people willing to point that out to the blinded liberals.

]]> By: Stephen http://www.john-wright.net/2006/09/13/ghost-of-columbine-in-canada/comment-page-1/#comment-359 Stephen Sat, 16 Sep 2006 08:12:00 +0000 http://www.john-wright.net/2006/09/13/ghost-of-columbine-in-canada/#comment-359 Matt:<br/><br/>It has nothing to do with providing people with more guns. The wrong people either already have guns or will get them. The only question you need to answer is should law-abiding people be permitted to own them?<br/><br/>SG Matt:

It has nothing to do with providing people with more guns. The wrong people either already have guns or will get them. The only question you need to answer is should law-abiding people be permitted to own them?

SG

]]> By: Matt http://www.john-wright.net/2006/09/13/ghost-of-columbine-in-canada/comment-page-1/#comment-358 Matt Sat, 16 Sep 2006 04:10:00 +0000 http://www.john-wright.net/2006/09/13/ghost-of-columbine-in-canada/#comment-358 Again John I have read through several of your articles on this and am not sure that providing people with more guns is the way forward for society, but you definately make some good points. Again John I have read through several of your articles on this and am not sure that providing people with more guns is the way forward for society, but you definately make some good points.

]]> By: Stephen http://www.john-wright.net/2006/09/13/ghost-of-columbine-in-canada/comment-page-1/#comment-357 Stephen Fri, 15 Sep 2006 19:43:00 +0000 http://www.john-wright.net/2006/09/13/ghost-of-columbine-in-canada/#comment-357 Here's the truth: the bad guys already have guns - gun laws do not prevent this. I live in Belfast, Northern Ireland and the truth of this assertion is all too stark.<br/><br/>Here's the question: should law abiding people also be allowed guns for their own protection?<br/><br/>I agree they that they should. Gun laws only take guns out of the hands of good people - not bad people.<br/><br/>SG Here’s the truth: the bad guys already have guns – gun laws do not prevent this. I live in Belfast, Northern Ireland and the truth of this assertion is all too stark.

Here’s the question: should law abiding people also be allowed guns for their own protection?

I agree they that they should. Gun laws only take guns out of the hands of good people – not bad people.

SG

]]> By: S Quinney http://www.john-wright.net/2006/09/13/ghost-of-columbine-in-canada/comment-page-1/#comment-356 S Quinney Fri, 15 Sep 2006 16:13:00 +0000 http://www.john-wright.net/2006/09/13/ghost-of-columbine-in-canada/#comment-356 This was a horrible event. Nevertheless scum exists everywhere and of course banning guns never stopped anyone who wanted to commit crime with them, all they do is take guns out of the hands of people who need them to protect themselves. This was a horrible event. Nevertheless scum exists everywhere and of course banning guns never stopped anyone who wanted to commit crime with them, all they do is take guns out of the hands of people who need them to protect themselves.

]]> By: Lavidge442 http://www.john-wright.net/2006/09/13/ghost-of-columbine-in-canada/comment-page-1/#comment-355 Lavidge442 Thu, 14 Sep 2006 16:33:00 +0000 http://www.john-wright.net/2006/09/13/ghost-of-columbine-in-canada/#comment-355 Absolutely correct, I couldn't agree more. There is a science to this stuff, it isn't an estimation, gun control laws do not prevent or reduce gun crime, it is fallacious to suggest otherwise since, as you point out, the statistics tell a different story. This is a horrible thing to happen in Canada, but I understand that our strict gun laws do not do what the politicians said they would do. Absolutely correct, I couldn’t agree more. There is a science to this stuff, it isn’t an estimation, gun control laws do not prevent or reduce gun crime, it is fallacious to suggest otherwise since, as you point out, the statistics tell a different story. This is a horrible thing to happen in Canada, but I understand that our strict gun laws do not do what the politicians said they would do.

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