Posted by Native to the BAY
a resident of Old Palo Alto
on May 3, 2023 at 10:58 pm
Native to the BAY is a registered user.

Hello. These two buckets of gun butts look like 1950 22 rifles. Looks pathetic. Last year 35 guns stolen from a high end mid town resident home (because they “forgot to lock a garage”). Where are the Glocks, semi auto mastics, hand guns that mostly kill our babies. There are more guns in the USA than citizens reside here . A “buy” back yes. Yes where is the cultural shift. Guns kill, people w guns kill. Amazon and such sell deadly weapons from a click. Our love affair w guns and violence is but a result of a massive Military Industrial Complex at 8.5 billion yearly dollars. And that on books dollars .War is not the answer. Yet it appears the solution. unless guns are the the prayer of free reign terror,

Posted by Consider Your Options.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on May 4, 2023 at 12:19 pm
Consider Your Options. is a registered user.

It's a small start. Hard work still has to be done. We need serious gun legislation that controls the weapons people most frequently use to kill people, especially children. There need to be regulations on storage and serious repercussions for people who fail to properly control and lock the weapons and ammunition they own, leading to theft and accidents that could have been averted by proper personal control.

Freedom does not mean you get to do whatever you want. The Founding Fathers were clear on this. Rule of Law matters...and can and should evolve in response to societal change. Ubiquitous availability of automatic, high powered and other kinds of guns is clearly a problem that the law must address.