Another mass shooting. 12 dead, 51 injured. The accused looks so goofy in court, the befuddled expression and red hair. Evidently quite a brilliant scholar at one point, now this. I wonder if he might have a brain problem like Charles Whitman, the U. Texas tower shooter, did. There is no point going after all these assault weapons, they are already out there and the NRA is 100 % right, if they were made illegal only honest, harmless citizens would turn them in, so don't waste anybody's time even considering a ban on them. This kind of mass shooting, mass murder, is just something we will have to put up with, its the price we pay for letting those weapons get out in the first place, kind of like getting a hangover after you drink too much. But quite a bit worse. I am deeply touched by the tales of the young men who so heroically threw their bodies over their beloved companions to save their lives. Greater love hath no man...
As a kid I thought there would be serious gun control after President Kennedy was murdered, but it didn't happen. It didn't happen after Martin Luther King, Robert Kennedy, or John Lennon, or Columbine or Virginia Tech. It is not going to happen. Our political system will not respond. But where to draw the line? If you have a constitutional right to bear an Uzi, why not a nuke or a surface to air missile or nerve gas. Whats the difference? Seriously. A weapon is a weapon, if you have the right to bear one, why not the others?
Nobody of any political weight is saying a word about banning these weapons. They express the sorrow, the sympathy, but we all know its too late to do anything real about the situation. Each of us, as we enter a theater or a church or send our kids off to school just accepts mass slaughter as a possibility. To be sure its not a high probability, a very low probability, but as Aurora shows, it does happen from time to time. The only question is when and where next.
As a kid I thought there would be serious gun control after President Kennedy was murdered, but it didn't happen. It didn't happen after Martin Luther King, Robert Kennedy, or John Lennon, or Columbine or Virginia Tech. It is not going to happen. Our political system will not respond. But where to draw the line? If you have a constitutional right to bear an Uzi, why not a nuke or a surface to air missile or nerve gas. Whats the difference? Seriously. A weapon is a weapon, if you have the right to bear one, why not the others?
Nobody of any political weight is saying a word about banning these weapons. They express the sorrow, the sympathy, but we all know its too late to do anything real about the situation. Each of us, as we enter a theater or a church or send our kids off to school just accepts mass slaughter as a possibility. To be sure its not a high probability, a very low probability, but as Aurora shows, it does happen from time to time. The only question is when and where next.
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