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I keep wondering why it's always schools this happens to. If it's a student who goes to school there I can see the connection, but this was apparently some 24 year old shooting up an elementary school. Why, out of all places, would he pick a school to shoot up?

Not that I support shooting up places, but if you're going to shoot something to shit with a lot of people inside surely there are more deserving places to do it. Like a KKK meeting or an NRA convention.

Anyway since this brings up the entire gun debate again, I want to input something I came across a while back.
I know the history of the gun laws in the US, I know why it was done the way it was done and why people feel a need to defend their right to have guns. And I agree to a certain point (I've slowly been changing my stance on it since the last time we talked about it here) that people should be able to own a handgun and even carry it around with them if they want to. I still believe that owning any sort of firearm should require a permit and at least a basic background check to make sure you're not some mental patient, but beyond that it shouldn't be entirely illegal. Right now the US is in a situation where it's easier for the mentally ill to get a firearm then it is to get medical help.

Anyway, back to my point. I came across these videos of people defending their right to own guns and defending their right to 'open carry'. Basically meaning they carry their guns visible to the general public. And even that shouldn't be a direct problem. I think the streets would be a lot safer if a trained selection of people walked around doing their daily business with a handgun strapped to their side in a secured holster.
But these people take it to the extreme and not only carry their handgun, but also carry shotguns and semi-auto rifles on their back. Why? Because they can. They don't care that they cause a stir in the community. All in all I think it's extremely childish. Anyway go check it out first before I go on.



He's right, this is legal. It is legal in a lot of states to simply carry a loaded AK-47 or MP5 or whatever. In theory it would be legal to carry a rocket launcher. But this guy was stopped by the cops, they asked what he was up to and had a 15 minute chat with him before letting him go. He has good intentions, but he could just as easily have wandered into a school or a shopping mall and shot up the place and the cops couldn't have done a thing about it, even though they stopped him and encouraged him to leave the guns at home.

Something is screwy in the US. It being legal to carry semi-auto rifles might have something to do with that.