You know, I've spent the last hour thinking about if I was going to post a blog about the shootings in Newton today. I've thought a thousand times about what I was going to say.
I want to start off by offering my condolences to everyone in Newton today. As I write this, I feel completely sick to my stomach. This feels like something out of a TV drama, but alas, its all too real.
I want to add that I watched the coverage today, and we all know that Fox News is pure trash that tried to steer the issue away from gun control, and place 100% of the blame for what happened today at the feet of makers of "violent" video games. But then again, why would Fox News put any of the blame at the NRA, because we all know that the GOP and the NRA are spooning each other.
I would also like to add that I'm disgusted with CNN. Whereas the anchors at MSNBC actually showed emotion, Wolf Blitzer and the walking dead at CNN did not. In fact, Wolf Blitzer said the words "Children dead." with the same emotion you or I would have reading our shopping list. I switched the channel to MSNBC after growing weary of the cold, heartless reporting from CNN.
President Obama gave one of the most human speeches I've ever seen. Never before had I witnessed a president actually get choked up, and wipe away tears during a live press conference. This is not a knock on presidents of the past. They are supposed to be Stoic, they are supposed to have an aire of confidence. That's been an unwritten rule, rule that was broken when President Obama had a human moment.
I watched one of the anchors actually break down into near tears as she interviewed a doctor about the psychological damage that events today could do to a child. Something those zombies and robots over at CNN could never do.
I've been on twitter for the past few hours, and continue to be as I pen this blog, wondering what thoughts are going to come next. I can just hear the NRA supporters crying foul over the call for greater gun control. Even though gun control is needed in this country, and some guns, like some of the semi automatics out there serve no purpose. Some of them are complaining that even mentioning gun control is to make a "Political" issue out of this.
I think back to a confrontation between Cenk Uyger of the Young Turks and member of the NRA brain trust. Whereas the NRA representative kept saying that guns make people feel safe, etc, you know the rhetoric. Cenk was on him like Charlie Sheen on an 8 ball. And Cenk put him rightfully in his place.
When its all said and done, 20 children are dead. 20 sets of parents will remember this holiday season with a heavy heart. 20 children who did nothing, nothing to warrant being shot while they sat in a classroom. It takes a special kind of monster to do this, harm little children. Also today, a man walked into a school in china, armed with a knife. No one dead, just a deranged man who got his ass kicked.
More guns don't make people safer, it never has, and never will. There was a time, in which it was common place for everyone to carry a gun. It happened here in America, and we got one of the most violent times in our history. I'm talking of course of the Old West. A time in where outlaws like Billy the Kid, and Jesse James carried guns, as did every day folks. All this did was lead to high body counts. Maybe some folks just haven't gotten over romanticizing that era of US history.
I can't understand why people would want us to remain stunted in that logic. that the only way to be safe is to carry a gun. I guess I'll never understand the logic of these people. Guns, for the most part, are used as weapons of fear. They are a modern day bogeyman, with the notion that every bad guy out there has a gun, and willingly use it on anyone. That's just not the truth.
The truth is that showing a gun to someone that already has a gun is just going to bring a causation of the other person using their weapon. They are doing it out of survival mode. There blows the "its safer if everyone has a gun" logic.
As I sit here, thinking of how to bring this blog to a close, I harken back to the thought that there are scores of children who may very well forever link school and death. There are parents who, instead of celebrating this holiday with their children, will be mourning their loss. And there will be another school that will now join the sad fraternity of schools marred by shootings. Though it feels of wishful thinking, one can only hope that finally, there will be no new members, and this school will be the last admitted.
As for the shooters motives, I really don't give a shit. They mean nothing to me. Nothing can justify walking into a school, an elementary school, and shooting young children. Shooting teachers and others who dedicated their lives to educating young lives. The motives don't out weight the loss of life. Those who don't learn from history, are doomed to repeat it. I hope we've finally learned our lesson.
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