Matt Damon on Australia's gun confiscation...I wish that could happen in my country

You called someone elses answer Whacko, that is Bromide, that is no answer.

 

Ok thanks

 

Answer ?
Gun Control is not an effective Crime prevention method.

 

I disagree

 

But he's right.

 

Yeah, if we had only armed those students at Sandy Hook Elementary school Ponder this one. I worked at a facility that was a bonded premise. No firearms allowed. They had to remain in one's vehicle. Never a problem. As a matter of fact, very few deaths by firearms occur on bonded premises. Remove the guns, stop the deaths.

 

I have no idea what a "bonded premise" is, but I've worked in all kinds of places.(including top secret federal type places) In order for a "gun free" place to be safe, it has to be guarded by people with guns and have controlled access. We can't afford to do this everywhere.

An armed teacher or principal would have made a difference in Sandy Hook. How was disarming everybody responsible for the protection of those children wise?

 

Not true, many bonded premises have unarmed security guards, like the Fortune 500 company plant where I worked.

Yeah, let's arm teachers and principals, then the mischievous students will get hold of their firearm. I always love the NRA rhetoric - more guns = less crime. Now get rid of this outdated Amendment 2, and now you have something!

 

I and many of my friends had guns when I was in secondary school. No shooter would have survived trying a massacre at our school, but then the thought would never had occurred. We didn't have guards... we had nuns... impervious to any weapon.

 

Your solution seems to be get rid of the 2A and then get rid of guns. How you got any ideas that could actually work?

 

Removing the guns will never be on the table.

 

If only someone in the front office had been armed.

Every public school is a gun free zone, no firearms allowed. How's that work there?

Every bonded premise I've been to had metal detectors for entry and exit.

 

When did self defense become outdated?

 

At last count there were eighteen states that allow for the legal concealed carry of firearms on school grounds.

Since you are positively convinced that students will steal firearms from school staff, show which of these eighteen states have experienced such developments, thus proving what you speak of is a matter of fact rather than hyperbole.

 

Ahh but it's coming grasshopper to yet more schools and I'm sure criminals just quake in their boots when they see bonded premises and unarmed security guards (whatever a bonded premise is)

 

exactly...it's sneaking up on the BM and they don't know it LOL

 

You want to put someone in a school with a gun they better be highly trained individuals. Not some moron who plinks cans on the weekend.

 

all that gun banners do is remove the guns from good people. Sandy Hook was a gun free zone meaning RESPONSIBLE adults could not have firearms. worked really well there didn't it? In fact it worked exactly as the BM intended.

 

the average CCW holder is a better shot than the average cop and less likely to miss a bad guy and less likely to hit an innocent.

 

There are many of us that conduct training that have offered to train teachers and school officials for free. That offer still stands for me. It's always been on open offer for rape and domestic violence victims for me. In a couple cases, I paid for the ammo for a couple such victims, several people at the range chipped in to buy her a LCR. When you are protecting kids it is amazing what people will do armed or unarmed.

 

Not my Fortune 500 company workplace of 30 years.

 

Where do they keep their firearms? Do the women keep them in their purse? What kind of guns do they carry - a handgun? Do the male teachers have semi-automatic weapons mounted above the chalkboard? So tell me how this works. The perpetrator illegally enters school grounds with a semi-automatic weapon, goes into the classroom, where the teacher with the handgun in her purse, is teaching class. If the guns are legal, guess who the first person to be shot will be, whether she has a gun or not.

You are all so sold on the NRA rhetoric, that you refuse to espouse common sense.

 

I guess I've never been to your singular place of employment.

 

How does the shooter know to shoot the only person on campus in possession of a firearm? What if there is a second staff member armed with a firearm?

What happens in your scenario if no one has a gun on campus? The shooter still shoots as many as he likes.

 

You claim common sense... put yourself in the role of a teacher and think it through.