Protestantism

» paper_turtle - Kids and guns

In response to Should We Talk About It? posted by Migisi:

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Migisi wrote:
In fact, kids had unlimited access years ago, yet we never heard about school shootings.
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Yes, there are many, many factors which have caused violence to escalate in young people. Drugs is one of the worst.
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But I question your premise. When I was growing up NO ONE except hunters had guns, ever. And hunters kept their guns locked up except in hunting season. Only the children of hunters used guns. The rest of us weren't interested.
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I would venture to say that throughout most of New England, going back a *very* long way in its history, gun ownership was mostly confined to hunters. Possible exceptions might have been those living in very remote areas where their closest neighbor might have been a bear or a catamount rather than a person.
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peace and love,
Paper Turtle

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