Cumbria Fall-Out, Day 4
My, how convenient: BBC's "The Big Questions" - a religion-oriented discussion programme on Sunday mornings covering various topical matters has a technical outage halfway through, cutting the live show short. Their first, and most interrupted subject? The Cumbria shootings, and the "need" for tightening up the gun laws in the UK. Most vocal on the show, a woman almost rabid in her desire to see all guns banned - or was that "all men emasculated"?
There was no logic to her "cause", just the good old "bulldozer to drive in a single nail" approach, which conveniently ignores, COMPLETELY, a fundamental issue that is NEVER addressed. If this was a woman shooting twelve people dead, we'd be all over her mental state, the pressures of society, finance... all that jazz. But the perpetrator was A MAN, and that is, apparently, all we need to know - man + gun = slaughter. According to her and her allies, that's how simnple it is.
Bollocks.
I refer readers back to my previous article - four days on, and still the matter of men's mental issues and "unmetabolised anger" has not been addressed. You don't need a "Flash Forward" to know such an incident will happen again - it's guaranteed as long as we treat men as mindless automatons, switched to "Kill" mode the moment a gun is placed in their hands. Any time a man shows any emotion - just remember several disappointed soccer players at recent competitions - they're lampooned, told to "get a grip" and "stop being such a girl"...
If the World Cup is going to be good for anything, it'll be to remind us that that's just how it is. England will fail, the players will cry, and they will be condemned for it. It will happen, but the denial of men's emotions has to stop. Save men from despair, you save lives by averting "massacres" - all it takes is a listening ear, and the support of someone else who cares.
It's not too late to stop the next outrage, and we can't do that if we waste any more time trying to "ban all guns". Hungerford, Dunblane... and still teenagers are shooting each other every weekend. According to the "anti-gun nuts", those crimes should already be impossible, because of the laws already in place.
Guess again, ladies.
/ rant
Meanwhile... It's time. In a couple of days, i-Resist 2010 will be set in motion, should we receive no adequate response from the Council about the lack of residents' consultation about the CLAN Gathering. An e-mail is being prepared, I will be working on flyers this week - very soon, everyone in the neighbourhood will know about what's coming at the end of July. And there will be protests...
There was no logic to her "cause", just the good old "bulldozer to drive in a single nail" approach, which conveniently ignores, COMPLETELY, a fundamental issue that is NEVER addressed. If this was a woman shooting twelve people dead, we'd be all over her mental state, the pressures of society, finance... all that jazz. But the perpetrator was A MAN, and that is, apparently, all we need to know - man + gun = slaughter. According to her and her allies, that's how simnple it is.
Bollocks.
I refer readers back to my previous article - four days on, and still the matter of men's mental issues and "unmetabolised anger" has not been addressed. You don't need a "Flash Forward" to know such an incident will happen again - it's guaranteed as long as we treat men as mindless automatons, switched to "Kill" mode the moment a gun is placed in their hands. Any time a man shows any emotion - just remember several disappointed soccer players at recent competitions - they're lampooned, told to "get a grip" and "stop being such a girl"...
If the World Cup is going to be good for anything, it'll be to remind us that that's just how it is. England will fail, the players will cry, and they will be condemned for it. It will happen, but the denial of men's emotions has to stop. Save men from despair, you save lives by averting "massacres" - all it takes is a listening ear, and the support of someone else who cares.
It's not too late to stop the next outrage, and we can't do that if we waste any more time trying to "ban all guns". Hungerford, Dunblane... and still teenagers are shooting each other every weekend. According to the "anti-gun nuts", those crimes should already be impossible, because of the laws already in place.
Guess again, ladies.
/ rant
Meanwhile... It's time. In a couple of days, i-Resist 2010 will be set in motion, should we receive no adequate response from the Council about the lack of residents' consultation about the CLAN Gathering. An e-mail is being prepared, I will be working on flyers this week - very soon, everyone in the neighbourhood will know about what's coming at the end of July. And there will be protests...