Re: [MBZ] Final gun comment

2013-01-25 Thread Randy Bennell
On 24/01/2013 6:22 PM, Brian Toscano wrote: Randy, I find it interesting that you voiced objection to the gun posts, but think we should read your OT posts about electrical work and local Canadian issues, such as Japanese senior citizens. ust like RLE, all of your messages now go straight to

Re: [MBZ] Final gun comment

2013-01-25 Thread Andrew Strasfogel
Well said, Randy. I would be just as upset if the forum were highjacked by a group of gun control advocates, even though this is the position I espouse privately, I do not feel this forum is the place to have such a controversial subject raised, and thrashed around, ad nauseum. ALS On Fri, Jan

Re: [MBZ] Final gun comment

2013-01-25 Thread dseretakis
Agreed! Can be finally be done with this! Sent from my iPhone On Jan 25, 2013, at 2:21 PM, Andrew Strasfogel astrasfo...@gmail.com wrote: Well said, Randy. I would be just as upset if the forum were highjacked by a group of gun control advocates, even though this is the position I espouse

Re: [MBZ] Final gun comment

2013-01-24 Thread Brian Toscano
Randy, I find it interesting that you voiced objection to the gun posts, but think we should read your OT posts about electrical work and local Canadian issues, such as Japanese senior citizens. ust like RLE, all of your messages now go straight to bit bucket. Thanks, Brian Toscano whose family

Re: [MBZ] Final gun comment

2013-01-21 Thread Randy Bennell
My wife was talking with a young woman this weekend, who has 2 young children. She was relating the fact that her son, who is 5 or 6 (I cannot recall which) is having nightmares because, every day at school, they are having drills on what to do if someone comes to the school with a gun. This

Re: [MBZ] Final gun comment

2013-01-21 Thread Randy Bennell
On 19/01/2013 7:24 AM, Dan Penoff wrote: We had an incident this week where an elementary student brought a toy gun to school in their backpack, and it was reported by a fellow student. No discipline was taken, just a Parent Link call made to all of the households about not allowing their

Re: [MBZ] Final gun comment

2013-01-21 Thread G Mann
Without going to any discussion about guns, period, let us look at the true source of this young mans fear, how it was installed, who taught it to him, where it came from. We have in our society today a culture that teaches children to be fearful. In an older society, we were taught by example

Re: [MBZ] Final gun comment

2013-01-21 Thread Andrew Strasfogel
What culture? I taught my son to be careful, but fearful? No. Are you talking about the culture in your home town or is this yet another straw man? On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 4:11 PM, G Mann g2ma...@gmail.com wrote: Without going to any discussion about guns, period, let us look at the true

Re: [MBZ] Final gun comment

2013-01-19 Thread Andrew Strasfogel
It's way easier picking on innocent 5 year olds than an adult who has real guns and is a serious threat to do real mayhem. On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 11:47 PM, Gerry Archer arche...@embarqmail.com wrote: After the following incident I'm convinced that gun possession is a serious risk, that all

Re: [MBZ] Final gun comment

2013-01-19 Thread Dan Penoff
We had an incident this week where an elementary student brought a toy gun to school in their backpack, and it was reported by a fellow student. No discipline was taken, just a Parent Link call made to all of the households about not allowing their children to bring any sort of weapon, toy or

Re: [MBZ] Final gun comment

2013-01-19 Thread Mitch Haley
Dan Penoff wrote: We had an incident this week where an elementary student brought a toy gun to school in their backpack, and it was reported by a fellow student. No discipline was taken, just a Parent Link call made to all of the households about not allowing their children to bring any sort