Originally Posted by ThePhanastasio

I'm a part of a Craigslist-type group that posts local 'classifieds' on Facebook. There are around 30k members, and this is not a huge area, so it's seriously very well-known around here.

My bitch is that people sell their ****ing guns on there, and we're not just talking hunting rifles, shotguns, that ****. I can't go five posts without seeing someone selling a goddamned AK47, and guess what? Police are FULLY aware of this page, and actually participate themselves and are apparently completely indifferent to this.

What in the **** is wrong with this world? Someone tries to sell drugs online, they're incarcerated immediately. Granted, that is stupid to try to do. Someone tries to sell a goddamned AK-47 with ammo, or trade it for a four wheeler, and cops are bidding on it. Hell, cops are probably selling some of the **** like that.

Someone was even selling essentially a sniper rifle a few weeks back.

This makes me very unhappy. Also, my sister's school was on lockdown a few days ago, because they found several shells in the hallway of the middle school. I live in a teeny town of about 2000 people, and crime is pretty much nonexistent...aside from a home invasion which ended in the robber nearly being decapitated with a machete, but I digress...

Something really needs to be done, but I don't even know where to start. One lady a year ago tried to show the risks of our school's current security by taking a handgun into a school board meeting (unloaded and no ammunition on her) just to prove a point. I mean, she was definitely arrested, but it doesn't seem like anyone got the point.

She had no ill intent whatsoever, and the local media only reported that some crazy bitch brought a gun into a school board meeting and was arrested...but the lady in question is very well-educated, and (although she definitely shouldn't have done things the way she did) was trying to make a point, which was completely lost in the way it was covered in the media.

I don't know. Just ranting, I guess.