Gun Violence

By kiki

We've just had another tragic mass shooting, this time at an Oregon State community college (10-1-2015). These shootings at theaters, schools, churches etc. are becoming so routine that we have become numb to them, they have become the everyday norm. Some on the right argue that that’s the price we must be willing to pay to be able to keep our guns. Really?? I say, BULLSHIT!!. Are the lives of 20+ innocent kids at Sandy Hook worth less than gun rights? I say no!! But having said that I don’t propose disarming law abiding citizens, what I do propose is that we close all the loopholes on gun show and private gun sales.  Have every gun buyer go through a mental health evaluation, especially the anti-government conspiracy theorist, we must find a way to keep guns away from the haters and the mentally ill. That along with common sense NATIONAL gun control laws will go a long way in keeping us safer as we go through our daily lives.

 I also think that handguns and rifles should be registered to its owners, but the paranoid Right cries the same old song of death that they do after every mass shooting “no way, that’s the first step of the government taking our guns away” Again I say BULLSHIT!! And for the good of the masses the paranoid should get mental help. But don’t hold your breath because nothing will be done as long as our politicians are in the back pocket of the National Rifle Association (NRA) The NRA that used to be a great organization for hunters, et al. has become nothing more than a political hack for the crazy right. The NRA now has the blood of the innocent on its hands.

Some of us, not all, will again grief for the dead and shed a tear or two for the ones that lost loved ones, but within a few weeks this massacre will be forgotten, that is until the next one happens, and believe me, they will keep happening as long as nothing is done to control the flow of guns that are so easy to get.