After the horrific and tragic shootings in Tucson, Arizona, before we, as a nation, could even grieve or pray for the families involved in this horrible tragedy, we started hearing all the political jibber jabber between the left and the right.
We don’t even take time to care for the people who were hurt by this tragedy. What’s our first thought? How did this psychopath get to this point of taking innocent lives?
We have to find something or someone to blame. For Columbine, we blamed Marilyn Manson. For the REAL Manson, himself, he blamed The Beatles’ song, “Helter Skelter”. John Lennon’s assassin, Mark David Chapman, blamed J.D. Salinger’s: The Catcher in the Rye.
But where does it stop? Do we always need an excuse for our wrong doing? I think there needs to be some accountability here. Each individual must be responsible for his or her actions. I sound like I'm a kindergarten teacher, but it seems people need to be led by the hand today.
Do we blame ourselves, or society, in general, because we couldn’t “get help” for this “poor, troubled soul, who clearly has mental issues”.
Society, at large, must be blamed? It takes a village to make a murderer?
I’m sorry, mental issues notwithstanding (except if you have severe mental retardation—which clearly, Jared Loughner, a pre-meditating killer, does not), but if you have an IQ over 70, at least, and you don’t know where to get help these days—then you shouldn’t be out in public. Is that too harsh? Ok, well explain to me, how could you NOT get help, these days! Join a church, get a psychiatrist, go on the internet and blog about it, write a journal, do volunteer work, call 911 and tell them you need psychological help, go to a library, read a book, have a TLC reality TV show, go for a walk, watch Oprah!!! Do something, for God sakes!!! Stop making excuses that something or someone else is to blame.
Is the media to blame? Are guns to blame? Again, we are blaming "things", and not looking within ourselves to find the answers.
Of course, guns don't help stop violence. Gun worshippers say, well if someone in that crowd had a gun, this would have never happened. But, then, they had to change their stance on the issue, because someone did have a gun in the crowd, but almost shot the wrong person. Does that logic still stand?
When the brave passengers on United 93 took back the plane from terrorists, they tackled them with sheer muscle, and not with guns. On the other hand, 19 hijackers took over those four planes initially, not with guns, but using plastic knives, and convincing the passengers that they had real bombs attached to their chests.
Should we now ban sporks from planes too? The fact is, you don't need a gun to cause terror, but, on the other hand, should we use guns to inspire safety?
I am all for anyone's amendment rights, but are there some things in the Constitution that are mildly outdated. Obviously, freedom of speech, the press, religion, etc, are rights we should always possess as a nation and free people. But, contrary to what Glen Beck might tell you, the Constitution, as great as it is, it is NOT Holy Writ. That's the whole reason there are AMENDMENTS! Thank God, we had forbearers who put a government in place which can be flexible to change according to the consent of the governed. Not to change at a whim, but to look at one issue at a time, and see if it's valid any longer in a free government. For example, anyone remember the Three-Fifths compromise? Yeah, that was in the Constitution.
I'm not saying we should make an amendment to make our second amendment rights defunct, but, the system now is out of control, and we have to talk about it, seriously.
And, yes, we know that if we ban guns, someone, somewhere will always find access to guns, or make their own guns. But, of course, to make them stop from being "bad people" they need to find religion or Dr. Phil.
But, let's face it people, do we really need semi-automatic weapons to hunt dear? You need an AK-47 for Bambi? Really? Thumper needs to get an Uzi to the head? What are we, hunting in a Looney Tunes cartoon? And we get our nuts in a bunch over dog-fighting?
I'm tired of militia-madmen going off the deep end, and we twiddle our thumbs and try to uphold outmoded systems. Real, concerned citizens need to start talking openly about the issue. Let's start again.
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