How much blood do we need to get the gun law graph high enough for action? This is probably much like our success in accepting homosexuality. We won’t come to terms with it until we all know someone who was shot by these gun enthusiasts. But not to worry, at the rate we are going, that may not be too long a wait.
This one we are blaming on video games. What can be done about that? What about all that freedom and liberty the GOP constantly screams about? If we put a R rating on such games we may be able to keep some preteens away from them, but it is young adult men who are the problem, and anyone can get them off Torrent anyway.
What about mental health? What can we do about that when we are presently having a fit about the NSA just having our phone number, yet alone our health records? We refuse to even address the mentally ill and lock them up in jail for a few months when the act up. More importantly, even if we can get them in a database, gun enthusiasts refuse to allow background checks. And to top it off, any certified nut can go to just about any gun show anywhere and buy whatever the want cash and carry. Thank you NRA and GOP. Yer da man!
No, the issue is our gun culture. It is not even so much the laws as it is the glory of the gun in our culture. How about we Just say no to guns? It is time to equate guns with what is wrong with us rather than what is right with us.
How about a War on Guns? After all, guns kill twice as many people each year than all illicit drugs combined and we have had a war on that for 43 years costing us over a trillion dollars and quad quadrupling our prison population.
Don’t kid yourself, Aaron Alexis is little different than any American gun enthusiast. Which again brings to mind the point.
Those who really really want a gun are the very ones who really really should not be able to get a gun.