CompuServe Messages

>> The violence that is rampant in our society now is based heavily in the social decay here, not simply that "guns are available". Stickt punishment and personal (read PARENTAL) responsibility are the only real answers >> Well, this thread just doesn't want to die <g> (pun intended). 4 boys aged 14/15 I know personally were attacked in a "drive-by" shooting a week ago. Three are dead now. Only one survived and was unhit. This was a fight between neighbourhood kids (I used to do this myself as a teen) and without guns there might be broken noses, maybe some stab wounds at worst. It's just too easy to kill with a gun, IMHO. There's a tremendous psycholigical leap between killing somebody from a distance with a gun and getting in their face and killing them manually with a knife or club. Very few kids have the psyche for the latter, thousands have it for the former. BTW, in the October Compuserve magazine on page 19 it has a sidebar on the "top 10 subjects guaranteed to start a heated online discussion". One of them is gun control. How true. Also, before you label me as a bleeding heart-liberal, since I know you are a Rush Limbaugh fan, I want to say that I'm an English Conservative party supporter (although temporarily living in SoCal). The difference is _no_ major political party in England is in favour of private handgun ownership. Just had to clarify that.