This blog comes in light of the recent shooting massacre in Newton, Connecticut. Let me just say what I want to say right out of the gate here:
SHUT THE FUCK UP ABOUT IT ALREADY.
Everyone, from your single mom, to the stay-at-home dad with seven kids, teens, friends, family, and more have made some kind of comment, meme, tacky image, talk show, news-cast, argument, debate, radio-cast, etc about the shooting. It's been twisted, turned, flipped, and warped to promote every kind of view from gun laws, school safety, parenting, mental health, home-schooling, private schooling, household life, politics, religion, video games, hunting, etc. JUST SHUT THE FUCK UP.
Things like loss of life, especially the lives of nearly twenty innocent children, should never, ever be used to promote personal views. They should not be used as leverage to promote stricter gun laws, heavier weapon taxing, less violence in video games, etc. Horrific crimes like the Connecticut shooting happen randomly all the time, in every country, all around the world. Most of them we don't hear about in the states, and even fewer care to give a damn. So why turn one of the shootings here into the means to promote personal agendas? It's just fucked up beyond reason. They have happened for decades beyond count and to this day, there is no one who can pinpoint as to why a sick fucker would want to kill a mass of innocent people, in this case, school children.
There will never be a foolproof was to prevent such tragedies like these from happening. So you want to take away peoples' right to own and bear firearms. That's not going to stop people from using a knife or machete to go on a stabbing spree, or someone who wants to use a pipe bomb made from feed-store chemicals from blowing up a church on Sunday. Face it, there are sick and twisted people all over the world. No one knows what they are thinking/feeling mentally or when they will be triggered and snap, doing whatever they may to take as many innocent lives before ending their own. No one will ever know. That's reality.
The media needs to back the fuck off, let the parents/families of the victims grieve in peace. They need to have memorials and cope the best they know how. After which, public memorials and remembrances for the victims should be held where each innocent life might be reflected on, NOT THE SHOOTERS. That, right there, is probably the number one reason that people go on these rampages, kill many people, and then kill themselves, because they know that their name, NOT the names the loved ones they killed, will be the one to live on throughout history.
Think about it. The names of the killers from the Columbine shooting, the Virginia Tech shooting, the Timothy McVeigh massacre, the Jeffrey Dahmer murders, all live in in history because people remember them. Hell, most of them are household names. Most people know the names of the Columbine killers by heart. Timothy McVeigh, Jeffrey Dahmer, Charles Manson, Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, Ed Gein... All household names. Most have had movies, shows, songs, games, and so on made about the crimes they committed. Do you think anyone remembers the names of their victims off the top of their head? Fuck no they don't. People remember carnage, not the loss of innocent life. The human mind thrives on chaos, fear, pain, and bloodshed. That is why they are remembered. And that is why people continue to commit sick killing spree crimes. Because they know it will immortalize them.
There are many viewpoints since this happened. Some say "Arm the teachers!" and are, of course, met with strict, fierce, and even violent opposition with statements like "More murders! Blood in the classroom! Overemotional reasoning!"And of course then the people behind it defend their own views by insisting that teachers would be better able to protect their students. The truth is, people with legal concealed firearms have stopped many rampage killings by causing the would-be killers to either surrender or, in the other case, take their own life, therefore effectively eliminating the threat. Concealed weapons are a good thing because again, face it, most people carrying a little pocket or holster side handgun are not going to go open fire in a crowded place just because. It takes a special kind of twisted mother-fucker to do that.
Here are some numbers for you. The average number of people shot in a mass shooting where the shooter is stopped by law enforcement: Fourteen. The average number of people shot in a mass shooting event when the shooter is stopped by a civilian with a gun or concealed weapon: Two-Three. The reason is simple. The armed civilians are there when it started. Reaction time is set in seconds or even fractions or seconds, not in minutes. Long before the police can even be notified the killer could have already taken dozens of innocent lives.
Think about the places that say "NO GUNS ALLOWED"... Trolley Square, Utah (No-Gun Zone). The Batman movie theater shooting (No-Gun Zone). Columbine High School (No-Gun Zone) Think about. People go into places like these to commit these crimes because they know that no one there will have a gun to stop them, which buys them an insane amount of time to commit their heinous acts.
There were four mass killing attempts this in the past two weeks. Only one made the news, because it made the media narrative/viewpoint look better. Oregon. NOT a gun free zone. Shooter confronted by concealed holder, took their own life. Few casualties.Texas. NOT a gun free zone. Shooter killed immediately by off duty cop. Few casualties. Connecticut. GUN FREE ZONE. Elementary school. Shooter kills until the police arrive. Suicide. 28 dead. China. GUN FREE COUNTRY. A guy with a KNIFE stabs 22 children. Over the last fifty years, with only one single exception, every single mass shooting event with more than four casualties has taken place in a place where guns are expressly NOT allowed.
Taking away guns is not going to stop this. Nor will stricter gun laws.
Gun laws exist for law-abiding legal gun-owning citizens. Let's be real here. Shooters are not law-abiding legal gun-owning citizens. Truth be told, over 90% of the guns used in crimes are illegally owned or stolen. Revoking gun ownership would just mean that psychopaths would find other means to carry out their mass killings and even fewer would be able to stop it.
1 comment:
You go Raven!!
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