This is how we teach them to inadvertently kill the future for their grandchildren. Because of easy access to guns, killing for a living has become such an every day occurrence, we've come to accept it. Until we close the tremendous gap between the rich and the poor, crime will always be with us. The growing tolerance of killing takes hold in other frightening ways. In America, often referred to as an armed camp, the citizens arm themselves against intruders and street muggers.
Some states pass laws that allow people to obtain permits to carry concealed handguns.
Some states try to make these laws mandatory. Even police officers know that being armed doesn't always protect them if the assailant gets the jump on them, and the police go through extensive training in learning how to defend themselves. Children are killing children and children are killing their parents and children are killing their teachers with the guns their parents keep around for protection. These children must have learned that it is okay to kill from somewhere. Thou shalt not kill , the most profound of the Ten Commandments, is too often ignored by even most of the professed religious in our midst.