Gun rants
Two totally different rants as I'm watching (technically listening, as my Mom is watching Dateline downstairs, and I can't see the television) another news show about the massacre.
The host of the show is going on and on about how easy it is to get a gun in Virginia, and that's the reason this massacre happened. Okay, look. I'm in favor of strict gun control. You'll never be able to convince me that it's your God given right to own 100 guns and an arsenal of semi automatic weapons. One gun, sure. Two guns cause you love hunting, all right, but no one needs an Uzi, especially if the closest you've ever been to hunting is a pair of camo pants.
*However* the argument that if there was stricter gun control this horrible thing never would have happened is bullshit. If it was illegal to own guns, there would never be any gun violence? Just like drugs are illegal now, and the U.S. has no drug problem, you mean? Riiiight. People who want to do something like this, will do it. Whether they can walk into a gun shop and buy one or whether they're buying one out of someone's trunk. I understand the need to hold someone or something accountable for this, but blaming something large like the gun industry or all immigrants accountable for the actions of one very disturbed and twisted individual just isn't right.
My other rant was the statement made by members of the VTech NRA Group about how if they were allowed to have guns on campus, this massacre never would have happened, because they would have tried to shoot the killer. The level of stupid in that statement amazes me. I can't imagine what the body count would have been had a bunch of twenty somethings had a shoot out in a heavily populated building.
The host of the show is going on and on about how easy it is to get a gun in Virginia, and that's the reason this massacre happened. Okay, look. I'm in favor of strict gun control. You'll never be able to convince me that it's your God given right to own 100 guns and an arsenal of semi automatic weapons. One gun, sure. Two guns cause you love hunting, all right, but no one needs an Uzi, especially if the closest you've ever been to hunting is a pair of camo pants.
*However* the argument that if there was stricter gun control this horrible thing never would have happened is bullshit. If it was illegal to own guns, there would never be any gun violence? Just like drugs are illegal now, and the U.S. has no drug problem, you mean? Riiiight. People who want to do something like this, will do it. Whether they can walk into a gun shop and buy one or whether they're buying one out of someone's trunk. I understand the need to hold someone or something accountable for this, but blaming something large like the gun industry or all immigrants accountable for the actions of one very disturbed and twisted individual just isn't right.
My other rant was the statement made by members of the VTech NRA Group about how if they were allowed to have guns on campus, this massacre never would have happened, because they would have tried to shoot the killer. The level of stupid in that statement amazes me. I can't imagine what the body count would have been had a bunch of twenty somethings had a shoot out in a heavily populated building.