I slept through most of last night for a change. Imagine my surprise when I went to the supermarket to get my food for the weekend, and saw the cover of our local rag. With a foto of teachers briskly escorting munchkins away from the scene of yet another mass shooting in the US.
Well, I quickly went home and turned on the internets... and was fairly well ... gobsmacked. Killing kindergartners... that's a new low even for the US.
And, let's see, there was the mall shooting in Oregon just a week ago, and a heart-breaking interview with the parents of a young african-american kid who got shot dead because his radio was on too loud while he was at a gas station, and some mouf-breeder didn't like it... what the hell is wrong with these people?
Next we'll probably hear they got shot because they weren't coloring within the lines, for cripes sake.
The trouble is that they all have easy acess to guns. As a kid, I remember seeing cowboy movies, and you always knew the guns had six bullets, so when there was a shoot-out, you'd count,knowing how many were left, you know? It was part of the history and culture, and that's why they were called six shooters, right?
Nowadays sociopathic freaks can arm themselves to the teeth with 32 bullet clips, re-load in seconds and create immense heart-break, destruction, and havoc. Using weaponry that was designed for war... not hunting. And wow, 40 percent don't even have to have back-up checks, they just buy them.
Some people need to get a grip and start restricting unlimited access to weapons... of any sort.
America has always been a violent country, but if I were living there and had children, I would seriously consider going elsewhere if only just for their safety.
The sad thing is, for the people who profit, they thinks it's collateral damage.
I wonder when something will happen to make people stand up and say enough is enough. And am not holding my breath.
Well, I quickly went home and turned on the internets... and was fairly well ... gobsmacked. Killing kindergartners... that's a new low even for the US.
And, let's see, there was the mall shooting in Oregon just a week ago, and a heart-breaking interview with the parents of a young african-american kid who got shot dead because his radio was on too loud while he was at a gas station, and some mouf-breeder didn't like it... what the hell is wrong with these people?
Next we'll probably hear they got shot because they weren't coloring within the lines, for cripes sake.
The trouble is that they all have easy acess to guns. As a kid, I remember seeing cowboy movies, and you always knew the guns had six bullets, so when there was a shoot-out, you'd count,knowing how many were left, you know? It was part of the history and culture, and that's why they were called six shooters, right?
Nowadays sociopathic freaks can arm themselves to the teeth with 32 bullet clips, re-load in seconds and create immense heart-break, destruction, and havoc. Using weaponry that was designed for war... not hunting. And wow, 40 percent don't even have to have back-up checks, they just buy them.
Some people need to get a grip and start restricting unlimited access to weapons... of any sort.
America has always been a violent country, but if I were living there and had children, I would seriously consider going elsewhere if only just for their safety.
The sad thing is, for the people who profit, they thinks it's collateral damage.
I wonder when something will happen to make people stand up and say enough is enough. And am not holding my breath.
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