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Are any of our kids at this school that had the shooting?
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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 569475" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>Janet, remember these are just opinions. I grew up without guns and am not part of the gun culture. I would have been shocked to see a gun in anyone's house. I didn't know anyone whose family went hunting. Guns are foreign to me...and weapons not to be messed with. To me, if you have a mentally ill kid, it just makes good common sense not to have a gun in your house and certainly not to teach him to shoot it. I am puzzled by what this mother did...it makes no sense to me. That doesn't mean I think everyone with a diagnosis should not be able to hunt or defend themselves.</p><p></p><p>I do live in a strong gun culture now. However, my main reminder of this is of my daughter Jumper's ex boyfriend, J. He was seriously depressed and mentally ill (and knew it) and was constantly telling her he was glad there were guns around his house because he was going to have to use them one day. His parents know he suffers from serious depression. It is puzzling to me that they hand him guns and take him hunting and that he has access to the guns in the house. In his case, he could get help for his mental illness, but he won't. To me, the parents are just giving him an easy way to kill himself that he talks about a lot. But, again, I wasn't raised with guns so they are foreign to me. Everyone is different. Cultures are different, even in the US.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 569475, member: 1550"] Janet, remember these are just opinions. I grew up without guns and am not part of the gun culture. I would have been shocked to see a gun in anyone's house. I didn't know anyone whose family went hunting. Guns are foreign to me...and weapons not to be messed with. To me, if you have a mentally ill kid, it just makes good common sense not to have a gun in your house and certainly not to teach him to shoot it. I am puzzled by what this mother did...it makes no sense to me. That doesn't mean I think everyone with a diagnosis should not be able to hunt or defend themselves. I do live in a strong gun culture now. However, my main reminder of this is of my daughter Jumper's ex boyfriend, J. He was seriously depressed and mentally ill (and knew it) and was constantly telling her he was glad there were guns around his house because he was going to have to use them one day. His parents know he suffers from serious depression. It is puzzling to me that they hand him guns and take him hunting and that he has access to the guns in the house. In his case, he could get help for his mental illness, but he won't. To me, the parents are just giving him an easy way to kill himself that he talks about a lot. But, again, I wasn't raised with guns so they are foreign to me. Everyone is different. Cultures are different, even in the US. [/QUOTE]
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