<p>Nobody would want the mentally deranged to have guns. But banning guns for the mental couldn’t possibly stop all of the shootings. If you want true security, you can’t go to a movie theater until all guns are banned from all people and all existing guns are seized from gun owners. </p>
<p>I don’t have enough time to do the research, but I believe most big shootings were carried out by non-diagnosed (for a mental disease) people. Exceptions are Tucson, Navy Yard (I believe), and Fort Hood.</p>
<p>As much as I’d like to agree with you BurnOut, 100%, its downright near impossible to ban and seize all guns, which is terribly unfortunate, because if people didn’t have guns, it’d be a lot more difficult to orchestrate mass murders with bare hands or a pocket knife.</p>
<p>I thought that the Aurora shooting and Sandy Hook shooting were both by men with diagnosed mental illnesses? I’m probably mistaken, though.</p>
<p>Difference between mentally ill and UNTREATED mentally ill. Someone who takes meds/has their problem(s) under control is completely different than someone who is undiagnosed/not taking meds/getting help/extremely on the other end of the spectrum.</p>
<p>Just throwing that out there before any more generalities are written.</p>
<p>My parents are really strict about everything, but I’m not an Asian girl, I’m a Moroccan-Irish girl with deeply religious Muslim and Catholic parents (my Dad is Muslim, my Mom is Catholic… they’re not both Muslim AND Catholic) - so I can sympathize with the whole parents-not-letting-you-do-things that everyone else has no issue doing.</p>
<p>My Dad basically forbade (is that a word?) me from going to Prom when I was in 8th grade. Like 5 years in advance, he said I couldn’t go to my senior prom… to him, Prom is just school sanctioned alcoholism and teenage recklessness. </p>
<p>I once had to lie to my parents about going to study with a few female friends so I could sneak out and see this guy I really liked… we had to hangout at the library because I didn’t have a means of successfully sneaking away to anywhere else. We eventually ended up screwing around on Google Images and studying for a test in AP English. (Romantic, right?)</p>
<p>Basically my life in a nutshell. </p>
<p>Explain to them that Catching Fire is a big deal amongst the youngsters and you’ll feel oh-so-left out if you don’t go. Do they go for pity? Tell them that sooner or later, you’re going to be independent and you’re going to need the tools necessary for doing things like going out places without parental supervision and having to interact with people in the outside world. Your parents cannot shelter you your entire life, feels me?</p>
<p>It always baffles me when people come so far to get to America for freedom (political, economic, religious (all or in part) and then deny their children such basic freedom. The big loser will be the child when he or she cannot function outside the family. In a sad way the parent has imported a bit of tyranny in order to control the child throughout adulthood. Of course the only way to control someone is to keep him/her weak. Keeping a child weak, timid and insecure is child abuse. Shame on such parents.</p>
<p>@CE527M - Thought you said thread-jackets. Had to read it twice. </p>
<p>@sosomenza - That’s a bit extreme, don’t you think? I feel as though plenty of first-generation kids who hailed from strict households turned out fine.</p>
<p>@preamble1776 My dad is a Muslim too. And I have done the whole sneaking out thing a couple of times as well. I talked to my mom and she pitied me for being the only one in my class not going so she’s going to talk to my dad. You don’t know how happy I am. </p>
<p>@sosomenza Wow, I think you’re going a bit overboard on this. Firstly, my parents did not come to America (actually the whole gun law thing is a big reason why they chose Canada instead). And secondly, I’m only 14, I think not letting me go to the movie theater is not nearly the same thing as denying me a basic freedom.</p>
<p>Yeah of course sosomenza is getting a bit too passionate there…</p>
<p>But to me, this situation isn’t about strictness, it’s about irrational paranoia. Movie theaters are not suddenly unsafe places just because a major shooting happened at one place. Just like schools (Newtown), colleges (Virginia Tech), etc. remain safe, so do theaters and marathons. It’s a cognitive error to be so easily influenced by the media that you develop an irrational fear of something entirely unlikely.</p>
<p>You can appeal to emotion, as previous posters suggested, but that’s about it. The entire premise of not letting you go to the movie theater is irrational, it’s based on emotion and paranoia and it cannot be countered with reason. Just stay sane for the next few years and then you can make your own decisions.</p>
<p>And there’s plenty who are afraid to leave their dorm rooms except for classes and meals. And there’s even more who can’t carry on a basic conversation with people of different races and genders.</p>
<p>may not be the optimal solution - but you could ask your parents to be one of the
chaperones. If not the movie trip, then the next museum trip or whatever. If they
get to know some of the students and teachers, they might be more comfortable.</p>
<p>I do not like green eggs and movies
It makes my child strong and choosy
I’m scared she’ll realize how weak I am
I’ll lock her in her room to study for exams</p>
<p>So, my parents ARE letting me go to the movie now after I stressed the fact that I’d be the only one not going. And I didn’t even have to tell them that most murders happen in the home.</p>