Guns are ridiculous

It's ridiculous how crazy people go over guns. Even talking about it, or shapes of guns or hello kitty bubble guns. I can see how guns are dangerous, and can easily wound people and circulation of guns should be watched more carefully, but strict gun control and controlling thoughts on guns? But I can also see how people may need a gun or want a gun and all that. So what do I think about all this?

Guns are an intellectual tool created since the beginning of time. If we cannot talk about guns, can we talk about arrows and archery? Aiming? Will we go as far as darts? Essentially, we can draw this down to the very basics - we are afraid of guns because of how fast and efficiently they kill or wound others, even with minimal knowledge. Well, can't the same be said for darts, blow guns (which are just advance spit-ball guns, in case you were wondering), and anything that has a potential to hurt when thrown? Hell, you can count in knives if you want to go that far. I don't need to be trained at a circus to throw knives and aim it at a spinning wheel to know how to throw a knife and accidently hit someone. Darts are created so that it's easy enough to throw and hit someone, as long as you don't throw it backwards. I may aim for your shoulder, but I'll probably end of hitting your head, heart, throat, or other vital area. With archery, it's considered shooting. In fact, this is the primeval gun. This is where the idea of a Gun first came about, if you ever went to a history museum, went to history class, or watched TV. So why is it that we discriminate against guns and guns only being so damn dangerous? You need a licence to get it, we need to control gun circulation, we need to do this and that so guns don't end up in the wrong hands, but how about darts? you could carry a pocket full of those and start shooting people down. You can't trace these back to the owner if you didn't see them throw it, just as you can't trace a shot bullet.

Reason I even had this rant is because I was mentoring a 1st grader with reading and writing. We were working on long and short vowels. I showed him "-ame-" and he thought it was the same as aim and sure, why not? As long as he sounds it out right and doesn't start spelling "aim" instead of "ame", I could care less. Naturally, the first think anyone would think of is shooting if you talk about aim. He loves Mario, and I suppose there are some cannons (also another precursor to guns) or handheld cannon (called a gun) in mario. He started telling me about shooting in mario and guns and arrows and what not.

I could see the teacher at the printer next to me was glancing over trying to decide whether to interrupt on the subject.

My question is, should she have interrupted? The boy was doing so well pronouncing long and short "a." Should the teacher have stopped him and told him never talk about it? Or should she have just ignored it and not draw attention to it?