Heaven is not a Place on Earth, You got it Wrong Belinda Carlisle
Not really a music post, but I needed to write about it.
While I think the recent school shooting in VA is atrocious, I do not think that stricter gun control would have prevented it. When someone has become mentally unhinged as clearly this young man had, lack of a gun would not have prevented his angry and violent actions. Homemade explosives would have sufficed and perhaps satiated his anger, and still killing many if not more. I'm not pro-gun, actually quite the opposite; I do not see the necessity for so many people to own guns. I'm not a big fan of hunting for sport either, seems to foster violent behaviour in my eyes. Killing a living creature for sport just seems sadistic to me. But what do I know? I've never shot a gun or killed a buck in my entire life, and on some statistical level I could end up doing the exact same thing the student did. Unlikely, but still a possibility.
I would like to see the statisitics on how many families in the U.S. that say own guns for "Self-defense" have ever fired a gun for that purpose. They clearly are not doing their job protecting people.
If you want to deal with this issue properly, you need to make the ability to intervene in the early stages much more viable. The professor who noticed he had bizarre writing? Report it. If he were handing something that bizarre in, he was clearly on some level trying to reach out and be noticed. I'm not placing blame on the faculty of the school, but merely pointing out an area of influence that needs to be addressed. I do not want to start sounding all after-school specialish and all, but seriously folks this is not rocket science . One ounce of prevention, yadda yadda.
And for the love of Zeus, please do not let this end with another Bowling For Columbine documentary, one was clearly enough. You hear me Michael Moore? That's right you hypocritical bastard.
While I think the recent school shooting in VA is atrocious, I do not think that stricter gun control would have prevented it. When someone has become mentally unhinged as clearly this young man had, lack of a gun would not have prevented his angry and violent actions. Homemade explosives would have sufficed and perhaps satiated his anger, and still killing many if not more. I'm not pro-gun, actually quite the opposite; I do not see the necessity for so many people to own guns. I'm not a big fan of hunting for sport either, seems to foster violent behaviour in my eyes. Killing a living creature for sport just seems sadistic to me. But what do I know? I've never shot a gun or killed a buck in my entire life, and on some statistical level I could end up doing the exact same thing the student did. Unlikely, but still a possibility.
I would like to see the statisitics on how many families in the U.S. that say own guns for "Self-defense" have ever fired a gun for that purpose. They clearly are not doing their job protecting people.
If you want to deal with this issue properly, you need to make the ability to intervene in the early stages much more viable. The professor who noticed he had bizarre writing? Report it. If he were handing something that bizarre in, he was clearly on some level trying to reach out and be noticed. I'm not placing blame on the faculty of the school, but merely pointing out an area of influence that needs to be addressed. I do not want to start sounding all after-school specialish and all, but seriously folks this is not rocket science . One ounce of prevention, yadda yadda.
And for the love of Zeus, please do not let this end with another Bowling For Columbine documentary, one was clearly enough. You hear me Michael Moore? That's right you hypocritical bastard.
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