It hadn’t even been a full 24 hours before debates about gun control popped up all over the internet. The inclusion of poor mental health care followed soon after. The shooter obtained his weapons from a family member’s home. The only reason he didn’t purchase his own was because he had the wrong paperwork.
After the sick son of a bitch used an assault rifle to mow down teachers and children, people flocked to gun stores to arm themselves. This is absolutely part of the damn problem!
Having a gun in either situation wouldn’t have saved lives. It would have gotten more innocent bystanders killed by untrained individuals who wanted to play hero. Unless you’ve got a 100% accuracy rate with a concealed and carry (which most law enforcement can’t tout) you are no match for an assault rifle. You’ll just get more people killed.
Australia had a horrific gun massacre in the 1990s and immediately enacted stricter gun laws. It hasn’t happened since.
Americans didn’t do much of anything after Columbine to regulate and control gun sales. Since then we’ve had Virginia Tech, the Aurora Movie Theater, the Oregon mall, and now Sandy Hook. And that’s just off the top of my head. Feel free to add ones that I missed.
I have said this to gun owning friends of mine and they all agree with me. Guns should be as regulated as driver’s licenses. You must take and pass a mandatory gun owner’s education class before you can legally own a firearm. Different guns would require different permits and assault rifles (which no civilian can ever justify) would require a special security clearance. In order to sell from owner to owner, you must present your firearms license. All guns owned must be registered and registration must be kept up to date every X years. Failure to do so will result in a fine.
If you own firearms and don’t keep them in a safe, lockbox, or locked display cabinet, you deserve to be shot by your own weapon. If you can’t store them properly, you shouldn’t have them at all. If you don’t properly clean and care for them, you deserve a painful misfire.
I have no respect or tolerance for irresponsible gun owners. NRA members who know what they’re doing and know their limits are better than the guy who knows nothing but buys a .22 for ‘home protection.’ Most of my gun owning friends knows that starting a firefight with an armed maniac is a Darwin Award level of stupid. Whether everyone remembers that in an emergency is another disaster waiting to happen.
I find killing people with guns cowardly. It’s distant and it’s easy. If you think you’re ‘bad’ enough to murder somebody, you should do it so you can see the consequences of your actions up close and personal. I find nothing heroic about murdering someone with a knife or sword but it’s less cowardly than doing it from 100 feet away.
The NRA nutbags have already started to come out of the woodwork insisting that any and all gun control is unconstitutional. How deep in denial do you have to be not to see the statistics, the devastated families, and the river of blood running through this country? If you say “You can pry me gun from my cold dead hands” I say snack on a bullet because being deaf, dumb, and blind to what’s happening is getting more and more people killed every day.
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