Im sorry.. I just have to vent about people wanting guns!

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Since the whole tragedy has came about in CT, Ive been seeing posts on my FB page about defending people for owning guns. Saying things like... “There’s knives, hammers, baseball bats, all kinds of things have killed people, people get in cars and kill people. You don’t hear anything about restricting that.”

It makes me so angry and sad to think that people care more about guns being out there for people to get easier, and have these times comes about where innocent people are killed. Instead, they want to argue about this and keep guns out there. Not try to get these guns away from the people who can purchase them and god only knows what will happen once those guns are in their hands. :(

Im seriously thinking about blocking this person. This one person who is not a parent, who is always putting up images and sayings of what this person believes should be. But as I sit there with three children of my own, and can only imagine what these families are going through, it makes me angry to know people out there are angry over the fact that the president wants to change things and not make it so easy for people to get their hands on these weapons that kill.
 
They can't completely take away guns because of the constitution, but I definitely agree they should make it harder to get them. Make them go through mental evaluations and what not. Yes there are other weapons out there. But, guns have been most popular for shootings lately. I was so upset about what happened in Connecticut being a mother myself.
 
I agree. I dont expect them to take away guns. Just do something to make it harder for a person to walk into a store and purchase one. I can see a handgun... but a gun that holds a magazine of 30 bullets at a time? To me, that sounds like something that should be used for war. Not something that should be in the hands of the public.
 
I agree completely. Handguns with a small magazine should be ok and there should be a limit on how many bullets you can buy too.
 
Yes I agree with this 100%.

I have a friend who thinks every person has the right to own as many guns as they want and whatever guns they want. But again, I dont want to argue with him. He is a married man with no kids. I dont know if its the "motherly side" of me trying to point out to him why on earth would someone want to have that many guns, and so much bullets on hand... when anyone who has mental issues can snap and do this kind of thing. Why allow people to have these in their own home and risk having something bad happen to innocent people.
 
I agree, at least a mental health eval..for all occupants of the household. My friends brother has mental health issues..some being aggression. They've had to remove all the knives in the house out of fear. Imagine a parent who owns a gun and has a child like that. Unfortunately, it seems we don't have to..after what happened this weekend. Absolutely heart breaking.
 
I cried after I heard about it. Just imagining, what if that was my daughter in a few years?
 
I'm still crying about it, my kids are in 1st and 5th grades. It hurts not only to think about the children that were murdered.....but also to think about the children that will be forever traumatized by this.

Seeing their beloved (because I know my kids LOVE their teachers, ESPECIALLY my daughter....today she chose her Kindergarten teacher as her special buddy for Super Student day) teachers gunned down .... and their friends and class mates slaughtered. These children can never get back the innocence that was ripped from them that day.

Every.single.aspect of this violence has completely 'ruined' these babies.

THAT is what I see when I look into my children's eyes these last few days.
 
Yea, the kids that survived were so brave trying to help each other out. And the teacher who hid all her students was a real life hero. I think she will be forever thanked even though she is gone.
 
Ok.... I have a question for you all...

this person that I posted about earlier is really getting on my nerves... its to the point where he is posting images about how much guns are in need... how they save 650,000 people a year... posting signs about how gun control is fine...

Its just literally making me sick to think this person cant see where the hell Im coming from when I tell him about the 26 people who lost their lives in just this case, yet alone the people who lost their lives in the mall shootings, movie theaters...

Im about to hit the block button from him... it wouldnt bother me as much if he just let this go... but everytime I log onto FB he just continues to keep posting these thigns about how guns save people.

Would you block him?
 
Have you tried informing this person they are bothering you and being disrespectful? If you have then I would block him. If you haven't and he is the type of person who listens try that first.
 
I've had to do that to a few people on Facebook, but blocking/unfriending them would have caused some tension (FB drama..good grief), so I ended up changing the settings where I just blocked their posts from showing up on my news feed. I don't entirely remember how I did this though.
 
SoonToBeMommy said:
Have you tried informing this person they are bothering you and being disrespectful? If you have then I would block him. If you haven't and he is the type of person who listens try that first.
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Yeah Ive tried to tell him that this is coming from me being a parent. Im just voicing my concerns for others, the children, the adults that lost their lives in this horriable tragedy. It seems like he just wont let up on posting these kind of things. I would hate to block him, but as a parent, Im getting pretty frustrated seeing these type of things come from him.
 
Understandable I would feel the same way if someone was posting things like that and I was seeing them. If you can figure out how to block the posts instead do that.
 
Yeah I think Im going to try to do that first. The bad thing is that when I do post about something, he is always there posting about what I post about... then adds on a link about his point of view... so I get to see his opinions even if I post about something he does not agree with.
 
Well tell him not to post on what you post then. Tell him you are a parent and don't appreciate it.
 
Im going to have to bring something up to him along those lines. I did see he upset another person on a post, and his come back to that person was... " I didnt tell you to respond to my post... it was your choice". I havnt actually seen this "friend" for a couple of years now, but it sounds like he did some changin... :(
 
Sounds like it may be better to try to block him. I definitely would if he keeps being rude, for lack of better word.
 
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