RE: School shooting in CT, 18 kids 8 adults dead.
December 15, 2012 at 4:46 am
(This post was last modified: December 15, 2012 at 4:48 am by Creed of Heresy.)
It's time for Creed of Middle Ground to speak.
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Ok. If you're against gun ownership because you think making them illegal will do a damn thing, I will be more than happy to take you on a tour of each and every last street in Washington, D.C. (as the nation's capital is the 5th worst city in the entire nation for violent crime, and yet gun ownership is illegal for anyone who isn't serving in law enforcement or the military) where you can easily purchase a standard 9mm handgun in decent-to-excellent condition for the bargain price of $20, and where you can also purchase five 13-round magazines for an additional $20.
Why am I so familiar with this? Because I used to live on those streets, and I purchased one of these guns and this amount of ammunition. This was 10 years ago. However, gun control laws have not changed there [certainly have not relaxed], the city's ranking has remained steady in crime, and I have no reason to believe anything has changed...especially since I was there a few years ago and, well...nothing had changed.
People who want to kill someone else, or many other people, are always going to be able to procure a firearm with ridiculous ease.
But let's say I was there, at the school, when the shooting occurred. I am very proficient with firearms; I have scored higher in marksmanship proficiency than Marines, army personnel, some of whom [all the marines] were certified marksmen, and a couple of whom were certified sharpshooters. Let us say I had a carry-conceal permit, and my .45-caliber M1911.
I cannot PROMISE that I could have stopped him from killing anyone. But I CAN promise he wouldn't have killed nearly so many before I drew a bead on his head. And he might've shot me to death when he saw me draw the firearm. But I could have stopped him all the same.
All it takes for the victory of evil is for good men to do nothing...or for good men to be incapable of doing anything. If the school had armed security guards, maybe this wouldn't have happened at all.
Maybe. Maybe maybe maybe. Lots of maybes.
Fat lot of good those maybes do now.
Creed of Heresy mode: GO
Nothing changes the fact that these teachers and these children are dead. You can point the finger of blame at guns if you REALLY feel the need...but given that in place of guns people can wield knives or, worse, explosives [which can be crafted by anyone with access to the internet and a hundred dollars of cleaning chemicals], you guys are going to have to forgive me when I point the unshaking finger of blame with the sadistic piece of shit psychopathic dickhead that just ended 26 fucking lives way, WAY the fuck before their time! ._.
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Ok. If you're against gun ownership because you think making them illegal will do a damn thing, I will be more than happy to take you on a tour of each and every last street in Washington, D.C. (as the nation's capital is the 5th worst city in the entire nation for violent crime, and yet gun ownership is illegal for anyone who isn't serving in law enforcement or the military) where you can easily purchase a standard 9mm handgun in decent-to-excellent condition for the bargain price of $20, and where you can also purchase five 13-round magazines for an additional $20.
Why am I so familiar with this? Because I used to live on those streets, and I purchased one of these guns and this amount of ammunition. This was 10 years ago. However, gun control laws have not changed there [certainly have not relaxed], the city's ranking has remained steady in crime, and I have no reason to believe anything has changed...especially since I was there a few years ago and, well...nothing had changed.
People who want to kill someone else, or many other people, are always going to be able to procure a firearm with ridiculous ease.
But let's say I was there, at the school, when the shooting occurred. I am very proficient with firearms; I have scored higher in marksmanship proficiency than Marines, army personnel, some of whom [all the marines] were certified marksmen, and a couple of whom were certified sharpshooters. Let us say I had a carry-conceal permit, and my .45-caliber M1911.
I cannot PROMISE that I could have stopped him from killing anyone. But I CAN promise he wouldn't have killed nearly so many before I drew a bead on his head. And he might've shot me to death when he saw me draw the firearm. But I could have stopped him all the same.
All it takes for the victory of evil is for good men to do nothing...or for good men to be incapable of doing anything. If the school had armed security guards, maybe this wouldn't have happened at all.
Maybe. Maybe maybe maybe. Lots of maybes.
Fat lot of good those maybes do now.
Creed of Heresy mode: GO
Nothing changes the fact that these teachers and these children are dead. You can point the finger of blame at guns if you REALLY feel the need...but given that in place of guns people can wield knives or, worse, explosives [which can be crafted by anyone with access to the internet and a hundred dollars of cleaning chemicals], you guys are going to have to forgive me when I point the unshaking finger of blame with the sadistic piece of shit psychopathic dickhead that just ended 26 fucking lives way, WAY the fuck before their time! ._.
