re: #56 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

If you want to use a gun to defend your home and your family, then I guess that is your good right and I do noth think that anybody is going to call that right into question.

But toting guns in schools or other public places with the expectation that they can be used to stop an active mass shooting is another matter. To do so safely and effectively (and without endangering others as much or more than the shooter) requires training and skills that cannot just be purchased over the counter at the local Wal-Mart sporting goods section.

Defending one’s own home with guns seems reasonable, but less so when people buy high powered weapons whose bullets blast through walls and enter other people’s homes. Such weapons should be reserved for military functions it seems to me. Perhaps gun enthusiasts could enjoy firing such weapons at ranges where the guns could be stored, but I don’t think they belong in neighborhoods.