Comments on: Maine Gunman Held Fifth-Graders Hostage

55-Year-Old Man Arrested By State Troopers; No Students Were Hurt

[mbourn2]

Interesting...

92.2 percent of police officials in a national survey appearing in the July/August 1991 issue of Law Enforcement Technology. The National Association of Chiefs of Police''s latest survey of the opinions of American police executives yielded results consistent with its 16 previous annual surveys: %u201CWith regard to private citizens owning firearms for sport or self-defense, 93.6 percent of the respondents supported civilian gun-ownership rights. Ninety-six percent of the police chiefs and sheriffs believe criminals obtain firearms from illegal sources When asked if [giving] citizens concealed-weapons permits would reduce violent crime, 63.1 percent said yes.%u201D

2 J.L. Econ. & Pol''y 309, 317 (.Fall2006)

[ccdsswrkr08]

ccd said "The guns themselves are not the problem. People will find other means of hurting each other. Ok so we take away all the guns....what next, no one can have a kitchen knife?"

The guns are the main problem. Close to 70% of all homicides are gun related. Close to 60% of all suicides are gun related as well. That means we have more homicides and suicides with guns than with all the other weapons and methods COMBINED. We have more knives than guns yet guns are used to kill 30,000 each year while knives barely kill over a 1,000. See how weak the claims of gun owners are?



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Posted by elcantante1 at 01:59 PM : Oct 31, 2008

Check your statistics again. Are the people who are all the people who are using these guns to kill others and themselves LISCENSED gun owners? NO. And I''m really really curious, how do you propose we get rid of all the guns? Even if we make them illegal, that doesn''t mean people aren''t going to still have them (Like they do now) and still kill people with them.

[pinewalker-2009]

According to myth, Cane killed Able with a rock. You want to get rid of guns to feel safer!?! Haa...**** Sapiens as a species that for all of our intellect, are fundi"mentally" flawed...can anyone else see that?

[pinewalker-2009]

In Star Trek V "The Final Frontier", it was said that on Nimbus III the residents were forbidden weapons and so they soon fassioned their own. Pandora''s box has been opened people. All that remains is hope...and pray tell...reason!! Get rid of firearms, and people still have stone knives and clubs...LOL.

[gop_will_win]

Now if these 5th graders were allowed to bring their guns to school, this liberal would have never thought to hold them hostage. Stupid liberals!

[pinewalker-2009]

This is a sad day for Mainers. Most of us in this relatively rural state do our best to abide by the law. This man clearly needs help, which he hopefully will receive under Maine''s current healthcare system and criminal justice system. Please thank whatever you hold Holy that this person did not do something more egregious and stupid. Post Script:Gun Control is NOT the answer. As previously stated, guns ARE in the world. There is NO stopping this fact. Taking guns away from law abiding people will only increase the frequency of random, idiotic, undesirable actions by the (Reletively) few deluded citizens of our great nation.

[slim1h2o]

There are a ton of things we can do now. It will take time and it won''''t be easy but the solution suggested by criminologists is to reduce the prevalence of guns.


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Posted by elcantante1 at 01:24 PM : Oct 31, 2008


Or just shoot everyone that disagrees with you. Eh? Schoollord?

[ccdsswrkr08]

The guns themselves are not the problem. People will find other means of hurting each other. Ok so we take away all the guns....what next, no one can have a kitchen knife?

[chad55555]

Gun control is not the question here,unless your siding with Hitler.We have created a society of nuts,crazy people.In the last 50 years we took the only God America''s only God (Christian,started this country) out of school.We tell people do their thing and don''t forget police go crazy too and use their guns.And who will be the poster child for jerk of the year.THIS WHOLE PROBLEM GOES DEEPER THEN WE MAY REALIZE.Let''s reflect on what and when things started going wrong and FIX it.BLAME OTHERS IS
ALL SOME KNOW HOW TO DO. SOLVE PROBLEMS DON''T CREATE NEW ONES. My heart goes out to the kids and there families,Thank God no one was hurt...

[peach652]

I''m not in favor of just anyone having a gun either... but I think the situation is so far out of control now, that trying to remove guns from the general public is impossible at this point. It''s too late. Nuts have guns, and there is nothing that can be done about it.

[blackbabymom]

"Yous has all dat securities `cause you lives in da white skool dis`rick, Massa."

And yet, for all your common sense used for reasoning that the schools should remain open, he took fifth graders hostage in the school... good thing they didn`t close the schools, huh, white boy?
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Posted by Nancy_Naive

NAIVE is appropriate. Another RACIST provoking the ire of solid standing citizens.

[erichinnw]

I''m from that county in Maine originally, and they shut the schools down because there''s normally zero violent crime in area. For something like this to happen is extremely rare and upsetting, so it''s normal that the schools would close for students'' safety so they could be with their families.

[rbullock440]

Seems like he just wanted 15 minutes of fame. Nice pic!

[shortestfuse]

sounds more like a prison than common sense for a school

[slim1h2o]

We''ve gone bonkers. Thats all there is to it.....



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