This week we had another shooting at a school and once again it is time for me to turn off the news, and stop reading Twitter and Facebook to avoid the idiotic gun control talk.
So many people, including many friends, just cannot think for themselves anymore. They want to ban AR-15's. Why? Because they look scary, you do not need that gun to hunt, it shoots to many rounds, blah blah blah. What you wont hear is a single one, of what I know are well meaning people, offer an actual solution that will work. The ONLY way to stop gun violence would be to create a magic button to make ALL firearms just disappear, and if we have that kind of power we could just use it to make evil people go away and throw in cancer while we are at it.
Use your common sense people, murder is already illegal everywhere yet murder happens. Gun laws are very strict in Chicago, and yet they kill each other daily with them there. Fix that place with these "fantasy gun control laws" and we can talk about doing it to the nation. It wont happen, that is just fact.
The lack of common sense goes even further when we do not let security carry guns at businesses or teachers protect our students in schools. We even advertise it! No gun zone, do your worst, no one will stop you. I just cannot believe the stupidity of the masses in America, the inability to see both sides of a problem and work for a solution instead of tearing each other down. I mean I get it, it breaks your heart to know what those kids went through, and you just don't want it to happen again. Guess what, gun owners don't either. But ask yourselves. Have you been spitting hate at them? Are you not part of the problem when you fail to recognize the difference between good and evil, and lump those that do not want to lose the right to bear arms into the evil category?
Let me give you an example of the absolute hypocrisy that happens each and every day, and please, tell me I am wrong on this.
Drunk driving kills people daily, mothers, fathers and and children. Every day there should be outrage that alcohol is available to just walk in a store and buy. There should be calls to abolish it! Start talking about that to one of your outraged liberal or conservative friends and you will get a whole lot of back peddling. They blame the individual, not the drink. You see it is easy to want to take away something you don't care about, it makes you feel better because you are sick about what happened, and everyone else is crying for action so you do to, and because you cannot think for yourself, you fall into the echo chamber of calling for a ban on assault rifles. So why don't we do do the same for alcohol? Because we know the vast majority of people that drink do not kill people, and we know prohibition will not work.
Do you understand that a 9mm pistol can hold multiple rounds in a clip, and clips can be changed in seconds? The effective difference in that and an AR-15 is accuracy at distance and they way it looks. So why is that important? Because when people say you have no need for a particular firearm they look at it from the point of view that it is over the top. Let society break down from a natural disaster or pandemic and see how much you enjoy being unarmed, and yes I know that is extreme and unlikely but it is always a possibility. Also, remember the only way to protect yourself from a corrupt or evil government is by being armed. It is why it is in the constitution, and it is a bit ironic that many of the people that hate the current president, would like to be disarmed so that if things were to ever get worse, they cannot fight back.
So what can we do? We can make crimes with guns not worth it, a topic for another day. We can increase public awareness when we see people that are a danger and most of all we can do away with gun free zones and as others have suggested, we can put our military men and women, who are home, and having a tough go at finding a job, back to work, guarding our children in school.
Evil is not going away but common sense is.
Even though my thoughts and prayers are ridiculed. They are still with America, and they are still with those that suffer tragic loss, each and every day.