As far as I know the curriculum is not so rigid that gym teachers can't decide whether to teach football or tennis.
Why isn't it?
Generally it's the school boards that make those decisions.
Too bad they have to hurt somebody before you want to do anything about it.
You are not forced to live in a free country.
It's your privilege.
Because it's a free country, we won't stop you from going to some asinine place like England, where they've even outlawed decent cutlery.
If somebody writes an editorial you don't like, all that happens is that you get angry for a while. When somebody does something stupid with a gun, an airplane or a car you die. See the difference?
Yes.
Both the editorial and the gun ownership are protected by the bill of rights. No difference at all. Libelous editorials cause harm and can be punished by law. No prior restraint is allowed. Improper gun use can cause harm and is punished by law...unless you're a Black Panther preventing white people from going to a polling place on Obama's election day....and can't be subject to prior restraint.
You don't have to live in a free country if you don't like it.
I understand why untrained people are not allowed to fly airplanes. What I don't understand is why untrained people are allowed to own lethal weapons.
Damn, some people can't figure out that their examples are just parrots of themselves.
Am I required to inform these ignorant types of people that their example of car driving (a privilege) already dismissed, covers their parallel example of aircraft piloting? Are we going to have to suffer some fool then bringing in train conducting? Truck driving, since trucks aren't cars? Hot air ballooning next? The Space Shuttle? When will this ignorant person figure out that we already dismissed all his parallel little flawed arguments?
Hmmm?
Come on. That isn't even an argument. Can't you come up with something better than that; something that actually gives a good reason why things should be as they are?
I'm clearly not required to generate new arguments when you're recycling old crap.
And, I'm explaining to you your options, since you seem to be densely unaware of what you can do when you don't like living in a free country.
Why don't you move to Mother Russia? They still have strict gun control over there.
Of course, the Russians have the highest per capita murder rate of any industrialized nations, but hell, if they're not killed with those evil guns, it's fine, right?
Something I've always known.
Being God is a good thing.
You can't outlaw idiocy and that is why we should make sure idiots are not allowed to have guns in the first place.
I think we just need to urge the people afraid of freedom towards the door.
Most of America's problems will be solved when the nervous nellies either leave or get laid.
The death penalty certainly did not prevent the inmates on death row from doing the crimes that got them there.
That's because it's not enforced.
Welcome to the real world. When criminals are convicted, then executed, rapidly and messily, others pondering similar crimes get queasy.
But we've got your ideal society now. Criminals do whatever they want, they go to jail, they get out, they commit more crimes, they go back to jail, and sometimes they get out again.
You people have a really effective system, if your goal is maintenance of prison guard unions and police force payrolls.
It's not very good if you want the citizens to be safe.
Why don't you try a little experiment.
Put a huge sign in front of your house advertising Handgun Control Inc. Get all your like feeling neighbors to do the same. Put an advertisement on TV touting your neighborhood as a gun-free zone, so that everyone knows how safe you people really are.
Maybe festoon your homes with the red international strike-circle over the image of a pistol, to make sure everyone knows what you mean and can be proud of your efforts, that should do it. Call yourselves the Gun Busters. Be creative, okay?
Do that and let us know how well it works.
Americans are virtually alone in thinking gun ownership for untrained idiots is a human right.
You think this is some kind of logical point?
Besides proving people who aren't Americans have their heads up their asses, what have you done?
Seriously, it's clear you do not live in the country you were intended to be in and you need to re-locate, soon, so you can be happy.
It is extremely rare that burglars become violent, whether it is in societies with guns everywhere or in societies with responsible gun laws.
It's even rarer when the burglars think the homeowner might have a gun.
Burglars burgle elsewhere when they get that notion.
And they don't care if the hand holding the gun is "trained" or not, if the gun is trained in their direction.
Naturally, your silly failed arguments aside, almost every adult who buys a gun willingly gets training on that instrument, since most adults aren't the idiots the gun control freaks are...er assume them to be.
That is a very callous way to think about human lives.
Callouses....come from hard work.
Thinking is hard work.
Try it some time. Never too late to start for you, you know.
Try to do it before you find yourself in the position of wishing that cop was there when you needed him.
Neither should Americans live in a society with a ready supply of guns for criminals, psychopaths and idiots. They deserve more safety.
They deserve the unrestricted freedom to arm themselves so the threats presented by psycopaths, idiots, criminals, and politicians can be mitigated readily.
Oh, gee, did you bother to mention that Virginia Tech was a gun free zone?
Did you notice the killer there didn't pay attention to the rules forbidding guns there?
Gee. A psychopath who didn't obey the law, massacring nearly two dozen men and women who were stupid enough to believe that idiot laws like that protected them.
Luby's Cafeteria in Killeen Texas....a dining room full of well trained law abiding Texans, killed by a lone psychopath gunman...becuase they obeyed the law forbidding them from bringing their own weapons into public places.
Glad to see they were protected by the law.
Columbine High School....two psychopaths went on an uninterrupted rampage shooting students in the school while the po-leece, you know, the guys who not only had the traing, who not only had the guns, but who were specifically hired to protect the innocent, waited patiently outside the school to see what was up.
ONE Virginia Tech Student, ONE Luby's Cafteria diner, to break the law forbidding access to self-defense or ONE cop with balls to screw departmental procedure to do his real job, could have turned each of those situations around.
Those situations are YOUR world at work, not mine.
Your world is a failure.