The babies and other victims haven’t even left the morgue yet, and numerous liberals are screaming for more gun control as they bash the right and blame guns. Politics at its best. Never waste a crisis. Play on people’s emotions, rather than their reason. And, of course, what is more emotional than innocent children being slaughtered?
Guns are not the cause of these massacres. They have merely been the means. Take the guns away and those bent on mass murder, will simply utilize another means. What part of this can’t the rabid gun control supporters comprehend? The gun is not the “cause”, something else is and that is what we should be dealing with. That’s how one can attempt to stop the senseless slaughter of the innocent.
I remember a case where a mother desperately tried to get her son help. The system blocked her every attempt. There was always a reason this agency or that agency couldn’t help. Always a reason why she couldn’t get him admitted for evaluation. And then… what she feared… what she had been desperately fighting to prevent happened — he killed himself.
Though it is sad the young man killed himself, luckily he didn’t take others with him. But he could have. He could have wiped out a room full of people before ending his own life. What if he had? Would one then be blaming the weapon of his choice, or the fact that he needed help and the system blocked him obtaining it?
Rather than decide gun control laws based on the emotional reaction to this vicious slaughter of little ones and their protectors, it should be based upon reason. Details should be obtained and reviewed. The “cause”… the real thing that “caused” this young man to do one of the most hideous things imaginable, should be determined and studied, so as to prevent that “cause” from developing in others or make it identifiable so as to have chance to stop the person before he or she “acts out”.
Guns are not the “cause”. That’s a fact, no matter what the rabid gun control supporters try to argue. And, until people comprehend that fact and focus on what sets these people off and sends them into a killing frenzy — another frenzy is just waiting to happen. Next time though, it might be a bomb or a fire or knives. It could even be a car. One never knows, because these events are the result of the “cause”, not the weapon of choice.
What happened in Newtown, Connecticut is a hideous nightmare that no child, parent, family or community should have to live through. May no other community be faced with such devastation. God Bless the Children and the heroes, who fought to save them. Likewise, may God Bless and keep those left behind to remember the day Newtown lost its innocence!
Aboslutely it is the cause of these violent attacks on innocent people not the weapon.
Of course, Bloomberg is too busy trying to push his agenda through. That’s the “cause” he is focusing on, while blowing off the real issues.
I am someone who leans to the left and can see that guns aren’t the issue at hand here. In some ways, it is sad that I even have to explain myself in that way, given how we like to categorize one another these days. (another talk for another day I suppose)
I think in a lot of ways, as a society, we can only blame ourselves for allowing a problem to exasperate. We feed into political/media frenzys, choose our camps, and use their propaganda as weapons against one another. This website is a clear indicator of such. Whether it be economically, politically, culturally, etc, we willingly isolate ourselves from one another and ignore a whole slew of problems that comes from that. If anything, this calls for us to really examine the problems and push away our petty political differences and self absorbed private interests.
People need to start asking what sort of emphasis do we place on education, mental health, police/ems, food production, etc instead of having a fallacious battle over guns. This is our responsibility to do something about it and we can only blame ourselves if we return to doing what we have been doing to each other the past few years.
Indeed! We need to say that enough is enough and demand that politicians & the main stream media straighten their acts up immediately. They’ve already done far too much damage. Time to get back to thinking for ourselves and not accepting their propaganda and wrongful agendas.
Absolutely, perhaps then we can steer the mainstream issues back into actual issues that Americans are interested in solving. Unfortunately, we are being made to fight one another in such a highly polarized political atmosphere. The amount of interest groups, lobbies, etc are unreal. While tragedies like this are horrific in every sense of the word, I think it also gives us a reality check in that we have a common ground that we can all start from.
Compromise is a lose-lose situation. I would rather see collaboration where both sides can take a win. It starts with us :).
Good article by the way!
If enough people would stop watching the propaganda portions at least, the management might re-think their program scheduling and re-think putting their political views out there. Drop in advertisement revenue speaks loudly.
Yes, collaboration is definitely the way to go! 🙂
Thank you very much for your kind words and for taking the time to read and discuss my article! Much appreciated! 🙂