Comments by "Charles Eye" (@TheCharleseye) on "NewsNation" channel.

The number of people who happen to be around multiple mass shootings, when the vast majority of us have never even been near one. It's almost unbelievable...
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@steveb796 Your analogy ignores the stark differences between the two. School shootings happen randomly, in all different types of neighborhoods. Drive-by shootings tend to happen in the worst parts of large cities. Of course most people who have seen one drive-by will see multiple. They happen in the same places, over and over.
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@GuardianW1 What are you babbling about? These kids were going around with realistic looking water guns that didn't have an orange muzzle. It has been a law since the 90s that toy guns have to have an orange muzzle. Either they painted the guns to look more real or they bought them on the internet from an international shipper who doesn't care about US laws. How do I know? Because my son bought airsoft guns that weren't properly marked. The difference is, I took them, painted orange on them and told him if he repaints them black, I'll trash them and he'll be grounded for six months. He can be mad all he wants because being mad is a good indicator that you're not dead. Playing with toy guns that look real is a good way to find out which cops are fastest on the draw.
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@steveb796 No, I didn't. Learn how to read before engaging adults in conversation.
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What is Washington going to do? The sheer number of homicidal people in this Country is mind blowing. Even if there was some magical way to do away with the more than half a billion guns in the US, it wouldn't change how murderous our people hwve become. Washington can't legislate morality. It's something that has to be done through parenting. Next time you're at a school function, take a good, long look at the other parents and ask yourself if you really think the majotity of them are instilling good values in their children. Chances are fair that you'll be looking at at least one parent of a future mass shooter in that crowd. We used to have machine guns and very few mass shootings. Now we have proposed bans on semi-autos and unending mass shootings. I think I'd lime to go back to the times of more freedom and less carnage, thanks.
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I tried listening to my eyes but they couldn't hear a damn thing. I guess I'll go back to using my ears for that.
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@jimfinigan1681 Airsoft guns are supposed to have orange tips, as well, but my teenage son still managed to buy a set of two without. He was mad when I took them out to the garage and painted them with a can of safety orange spray paint. I told him he can go ahead and be mad for the rest of his very long life because now, he isn't going to get put down by the next cop who sees him.
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@steveb796 That's simply not true. Think harder before responding.
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@fmcm7715 There are 650 million guns and over 100 million people who believe it is their right to have them. How do you propose we get rid of them? Are you volunteering to go door to door?
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@steveb796 If you're not talking about taking all the funs then you're not talking about making any difference. Only people who don't know anything about guns think you need an AR15 to kill a bunch of people. Hell, the Columbine killers used a couple of handguns a pistol carbine and a couple of shotguns. None had larger than ten round magazines. If you're not talking about banning all the guns, you're just posturing for the sake of it. How sad.
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@richardmorgan1588 Who is talking about shooting someone by accident? It's not an accidental shooting if you shoot someone in a ski mask, waving a gun around, even if it turns out the gun was fake. It was still an intentional shooting and it was a clean shoot. If you rob a convenience store with a fake gun, they still prosecute you for armed robbery. Why? Because it's not up to the public to assume the seemingly viable deadly threat they're facing is actually a toy. You chose to present yourself as an armed robber, so you will be treated as such by both the people in the convenience store and by the courts. If you get shot by the clerk or a bystander, that's on you for tricking them into thinking you're a deadly threat.
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@Clever_Moniker Do yourself a favor and Google "white Glock." Now go ahead and search for "pink Glock." Now, "purple Glock." People are walking around with guns of any color they want. There is no "obviously fake" if your toy gun is a replica of a real gun. This is why they passed a law requiring them to have orange muzzles. The guns shown don't have that, so it's not up to a random person to assume they're toys. Especially when the person waving it around is wearing a ski mask.
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So much truth. We've gotten to a point where people are not just callous to murder, they're comfortable with it. Mass murder is commonplace. That's not a sentence that should ever be said, yet here we are. If we can't find common ground, we're doomed.
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@guyforlogos Society is the thing that elected these politicians, let these school boards exist, and doesn't shame these parents for their awful parenting. Society used to have standards. Those standards have slid way downhill.
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He tried to let the police and courts protect the children. They made the choice not to do that. This makes sense, since the police are under no obligation to protect us. A parent has to protect their child, even if it's at great cost to themselves. This man is a real father. Any court that convicts him is wrong.
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@steveb796 Thank you for reiterating exactly what I said. It's too bad you didn't re-read it while you were copy/pasting. Or maybe it's your own comment you should read again.
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@steveb796 Cool story...? Why are you talking about hats?
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@LEEx513 Yeah, no. You're wrong on this one. I had a whole collection of realistic water guns. My favorite were the Uzzi and the Mac-10. They were even battery powered so they had "auto-fire." They were all over the place back then. I feel like you must have had a very sheltered childhood not to have ever been in a Kay-Bee Toys or a Toys 'R' Us when you were a kid.
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@nunyabusiness3082 I know two guys who have white Glocks with black slides, like the one they showed. I've seen at least a dozen women at the range with pink, powder blue, etc guns. You can't just go by whether the gun is black or not. That's why the law exists about the orange muzzle.
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@nunyabusiness3082 Emphasis (bold) added by me. You're wrong. Any toy gun that looks like a real gun must be marked. Section 4 of the Federal Energy Management Improvement Act of 1988 made it unlawful for any person to manufacture, enter into commerce, ship, transport, or receive any toy, look-alike, or imitation firearm unless the firearm contains, or has affixed to it, a marking approved by the Secretary of Commerce. 15 U.S.C. 5001. In 1989, the Department of Commerce promulgated regulations implementing this law at 15 CFR part 1150. 54 FR 19356 (May 5, 1989). In 2013, the Department of Commerce moved those regulations to 15 CFR part 272. 78 FR 4764 (January 23, 2013).
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Cool. Let's say we go ahead and ban all guns tomorrow. There are currently about 650 million guns in the US. Not on store shelves or in warehouses. That's 650 million guns in homes and on the streets. Let's go ahead an pretend that you can get people to turn in 150 million of those guns (and believe me, I'm being generous). That's 500 million guns circulating and now everyone who has one is a felon. Overnight, you've created the exact conditions to start a civil war...AND you didn't even make a dent in the number of guns out there. Gun control in the US is a fantasy. The guns have been here since we were British colonies. Why, then, are mass shootings ramping up at this point in history? In the early 80s and prior, we had easy access to actual automatic weapons (not the pretender semi-autos we have now) and we didn't have this insane number of mass shootings. Weird, huh? It's almost as though the guns aren't the actual cause of the violence. As soon as people stop pretending they can do anything about the guns, we can start the real work. Once we start looking at the things that have caused so many people to get comfortable with mass murder, then we can start addressing those things and turn the tide. Until that happens, it will just be more pain, followed by more clamoring for asinine "solutions" that won't change anything.
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I think maybe you pray to a different God than I do. I can't see my God taking out his wrath in an area with a high concentration of devout people. That would be like an abortionist shooting up a Planned Parenthood. It doesn't make any sense.
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