I've never been a fan of guns. I've never allowed one in my house (I said my house: Daddy had some, and Howie had a couple rifles, but as long as I've been in charge of a house, there have been no guns in it). And I'll never understand why ordinary citizens should have access to guns at all.
And don't throw that 2nd Amendment bullshit at me either, because the Founding Fathers would never have protected activity like today's as being within someone's Constitutional rights, and also, the words "well-regulated" are in the Amendment. I can't see where any guns are being well-regulated outside of the police and military (which also is up for debate, but let's stick to "John Citizen" going out and buying an automatic rifle or handgun).
I can't imagine any parent hearing news like today's, where 20 children were killed in their school, even any gun-toting parent, would think, "Oh, well, he just didn't know how to handle a gun. Or know what he was doing." Rather than thinking, "Holy shit, why does that guy have access to a gun at all?" No parent heard that news and didn't immediately wonder how safe their own child was at that moment. And no parent considered, at that moment, that just any citizen having access to buying a gun or getting a gun is a good idea.
What the fuck are these people thinking? WHY ARE THERE GUNS? We're talking about a device created and maintained for the sole purpose of killing another human being. That's not good in any way, but the sheer number of guns in the hands of ordinary citizens for the purpose of "protection" is ridiculous. I've got a news flash for those people: There will be no zombie apocalypse. The English will not attack again. The populace will not rise up against the government. There will be no coup. There is no reason for anyone other than police or military to have a weapon.
I'm down with banning guns.
It amazes me how the United States (as an entity) likes to think it's so far above the countries of the rest of the world, but how in reality, this country is so backwards about so many common sense things. How can we call ourselves a First World country when such horrors await our children at their schools? How can we sit back and let one, two or six people, in one, two or six incidents, decide that their cause is so strong that they should kill innocent people, and then give them the access to a gun to carry out their whim? How can we justify this country's thirst for blood and carnage, but at the same time look down our noses at other countries with human rights issues we describe as inhumane? Is it less inhumane to give killers access to guns and let them take our children? Is it less humane to choose one man's 2nd Amendment "right" over a child's right to go to school in safety? Over a parent's right to watch their baby grow up? Over society's right to not have its people murdering each other?
I'm disgusted. Guns are the problem. If people didn't have access to them, these things wouldn't happen. Name me one other weapon that can kill 26 people in three minutes. Nothing but a gun can do that. If guns were banned, we'd be safer. Our kids would be safer.
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