Really nice read. Left out a major point for the uninformed though: AR-15 does not stand for Assault Rifle. It stands for Armalite.
No, it's thinking that giving people the option isn't always the best option. We don't need guns inside the classroom; it solves nothing.
Right, maybe that's how it should be but that isn't the reality right now. A quick search tells me that over 20 states make concealed carry records confidential to the public. So if some of those states allow concealed carry in schools, a parent doesn't have the information available to decide where they want their child if they don't want them in a school environment that allows teachers to carry guns.
That's pointless, because we already know what the school's policy in Utah is. Utah specifically prevents schools from preventing people with concealed carry to carry the gun in school. So if the school has a policy that prevents concealed carry in the school, then that school is breaking the law. The only way to find out for sure is to ask the specific teachers, and even then they are under no obligation to divulge that information.
In the case of Utah you are correct. That's the one exception from what I can tell based on how the law is written. The other schools you may be referring to outside of Utah, you could ask what their policy is.
Nothing you have posted in this thread, or probably your entire life, has ever been mistaken for enlightenment you spastic retard. I don't drink PBR, I don't own a gun, and today was the first football game I've watched in 4-5 years. Keep flailing around in the dark though, it certainly makes you look smart.
I'm not a big fan of the AWB because i think banning guns based on cosmetic features is idiotic, but I don't think it'd be political suicide as you claim. I can't find the source right now, but I do remember reading a report somewhere that states that the AWB is actually quite popular among the public, partly because of the high profile of the recent shootings.
"The public" meaning the 'random' crowd they decided to poll when and where?
I think the issue is that a possible AWB turns alot of gun owners into single-issue voters. 2 years from now no one outside of gun owners is even going to remember Newtown. Meanwhile everyone with or wanting an AR or a high cap mag will have a very different view about the politicians who voted for this.
You do realize what happened to the democrats right after the 94 AWB was passed, right? And that was before the advent of the internet or the massive surge in popularity of the AR-15 style rifles.
And what, you're going to attribute the republican revolution entirely to the AWB ? As if a stagnant economy, overwhelming distrust in government, Clinton tax hikes, proposal to let gays serve openly in the military, and Hilary's failed healthcare reform had nothing to do with it ? Add to the fact that midterms usually beat the shit out of the party in power, and your claim lose even more merit.
I think maybe his point was that it is absolutely silly to compare the level of security that the most powerful man on Earth receives with what your kids get. You're implying privilege when that is not the case.
I am not sure that the culture is going against guns. Before this most recent shooting, if anything the signs were going the other way. Concealed carry laws have been spreading and the current last few Supreme Court rulings have been in favor of gun rights. The most hardline state on concealed carry (IL) is now being forced to come up with a program for it.