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Given the tragic and horrific events of yesterday, I felt I had to write something. First and foremost my heart and deepest
sympathies go out to the friends and family whose lives have
been crushed by this act of pure evil. I am so deeply, deeply sorry.
P.S. Dear God in Heaven! Have just visited the Spectator's Coffee House forum on this topic, because one of the contributors has written some bloody twaddle asking what J.G. Ballard would make of all this......WHO THE F**K CARES, you stupid MUPPET!!!!!!!!
Added to which, on the replies to this truly pathetic piece of writing, there are several other muppets who claim that the only way to stop a mad man like this would have been for the teachers to be carrying concealed firearms themselves. God give me strength!!!!!!! Sorry, but you know the world really is f**ked when idiots think the only way to deal with a situation like this is to arm teachers in a school. Then for other people to agree with that suggestion and call it rational. Oh my God! We are f**ked.
However, amid all my sadness there is a part of me that
feels real anger, anger at a culture and a constitution which allows its people
to bare arms. Anger that because of such a foolish ‘right’ that was drawn up
centuries ago when the world and America was a very different place, so many
innocent children have been cruelly taken. Their young lives wasted, homes and
hearts shattered, a community destroyed, a whole country shocked and numb.
As always a bunch of sorrowful politicians and the president
dole out heartfelt sympathies and promise to tighten gun laws. They ask the
country to come together as one and pray for forgiveness and to do all they can
to help those grieving and broken. Yet, this has happened before: Columbine
High School and Virginia Tech are just two such examples. They promise to learn
lessons, they promise to bring in more legislation. It will never work.
I know that there are rigorous procedures which a person
must go through before you can own a gun in America. However, as in the case
yesterday, even if the person who passes the criteria is of sound mind, what about
other people in the home, or wherever, who aren’t right in the head? In a
country where it is relatively easy to get your hands on guns, massacres like
this, I’m afraid, are inevitability.
Guns only have one purpose.
Yesterday, that purpose found its way into the hands of another
mad man and today too many innocent little angels have been sent back to
Heaven. Surely, now is the time to abolish the 2nd amendment and
make it illegal to own a gun, right?
I know that wouldn’t stop all gun crime, nothing ever can,
but if access to guns is drastically reduced and made illegal the chances of
this kind of horror happening again would be significantly lessened. That can
only ever be a good thing.
This speaks volumes:
P.S. Dear God in Heaven! Have just visited the Spectator's Coffee House forum on this topic, because one of the contributors has written some bloody twaddle asking what J.G. Ballard would make of all this......WHO THE F**K CARES, you stupid MUPPET!!!!!!!!
Added to which, on the replies to this truly pathetic piece of writing, there are several other muppets who claim that the only way to stop a mad man like this would have been for the teachers to be carrying concealed firearms themselves. God give me strength!!!!!!! Sorry, but you know the world really is f**ked when idiots think the only way to deal with a situation like this is to arm teachers in a school. Then for other people to agree with that suggestion and call it rational. Oh my God! We are f**ked.
3 comments:
Hi CC!
Hope you are well.
This is yet another gun tragedy. Only in America could this lunacy happen. Apparently both guns used were held illegally. Neither were held securely.
Obviously the Loonies of 'Arm A Toddler' the NRA, will come out with the usual tripe; 'guns don't kill people.. etc.' Yes, true until you put into the equation such things as; a complete lack of training, no control over thousands of illegal weapons and ammunition, the fact that the many lackwits that have guns have absolutely no idea what the weapon will do to a human being. Perhaps the worst thing is that, to quote "is the feeling of invulnerability and power a gun gives".
We were trained to use the old SLR. They makes a bloody mess of a person. We were shown films and images of this mess. We were made to understand all the responsibilities of weapon handling. This took a lot of time, and therefore, money.
Obviously if you can just go into a shop, buy a gun, and walk out with no training, a disaster is certain to happen. I cannot see the NRA or anyone in America enforcing training, it's not really in their political interest. I cannot see how arming everyone would improve things either, imagine having to train all those teachers to handle weapons that they do not want to handle?
Ok, I think our gun laws went too far the wrong way. I actually almost liked target shooting (I was a good shot though) and our laws have done nothing to reduce illegally held arms. But to be honest I would prefer no one to have weapons who didn't need them to do their job. Farmers/gamekeepers to remove vermin etc... Not sure about those that shoot game though.
Hi, Tony.
I'm quite well at the moment my friend and I hope you are too. As always you make some incredibly valid points (many I hadn't even considered).
I think the best example of the 'lunacy' that you talk about was demonstrated in the Michael Moore documentary 'Bowling for Columbine', where he goes into a bank that is offering people a free gun (and I think ammunition - though I could be wrong on that) if you took out an account with them.
The other thing that bothers me is the way that Americans cling to the constitution (and the 2nd amendment) like it was written for them by God himself, it wasn't. Also the second amendment was written for a time when people were using single shot rifles and still carrying pouches of shot. It was never designed to cope with the birth of fully automatic weapons.
As always, Tony it is lovely to hear from you and I'm amazed you responded to my post so quickly. Thank you, my friend.
I look in most days to see if you have posted.
There was an early American politician (sadly I cannot remember which one. I could 'google' it, but I should remember who it was) who reckoned that the constitution should be torn up and re written every 17 years. I think that would be a fairly good idea too.
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