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I fall Diz on this issue:

-Slightly off-topic but the fact media/the government labels criminals as terrorists easily skews how we perceive these things. The people that commited these crimes are people at the end of the day and -something- caused them to do these things; something somewhere went horribly, horribly wrong for a person to even consider it's acceptable to perform actions at such a high disregard for others' lives.

Although it's horrible they did this, it doesn't make it better to call them glorified monsters in attempts to spark discussion (looking at you mass media and politics) about firearms to fuel your backing for supporters and wallet rather than spark debates on how we can try to help these people -before- they do these things and rather than save the lives they would have taken we would avoided the entire crisis.

-Having shot with black powder firearms before, I feel you can say you gain a new respect and if taught correctly you easily have an awareness they're not meant to be taken lightly. Like death, they can easily be considered one of the true "Great Equalizers."


Ultimately, I wouldn't say I'm Pro-Gun but I'm definitely Pro-Life. There's definitely a ==stigma== about these types of issues in our society and having clearly drunken (and fairly decent in terms of the public backing them) presidential candidate (assuming you live in the U.S.) appears at a vigil for those lost at the hands of a gunner and make comments about how if anyone would've pulled our their own 'piece' and served some frontier justice is the moment the world "would've been a much better place" I legitimately lose all faith in a legitimate resolution ever being made on this issue.

Edit: I made small edits, also. . . at the end of the day, having complained to hell-and-back over DevLogic and Game Mechanics and had 2,012 fights in OOC over the course of the day (2,011 being with Koonie - and having won Dofus of the Day Award- tied with Koonie) I legitimately care about this community. If you have issues, talk about them. If you have concerns, talk about them. If you like something in the game, talk about it. If you need someone to complain to, I'm usually free if I'm not complaining to no end myself. I realize this may be slightly out-of-place but felt needing to say it.