Correction: I did not intend to really call anyone's morality or empathy into question. It's just something that's driving me nuts, not on just this forum but all around where these instances, where indeed they DO become horrible tragedies in which lives are cut short far before their time and rather than devoting time and energy trying to extend some sympathy and understanding to the families of affected, the focus starts going immediately on gun control politics. Let the gun control topic come up afterwards. I'm tired of people immediately pointing the finger at the guns and bitching about them and NOT THE GUY WHO JUST MURDERED A BUNCH OF CHILDREN. It doesn't matter how the psychopath ended the lives; the fact of the matter is that the person just ended the lives of innocents. I don't care if it was by a machete or pipe bombs or assault rifles or home-made chemical-bombs; killing is killing. The means don't change a damn thing and focusing on the means and not the incident itself is just a whacked-out set of priorities. Let that discussion come later, you know? And save your anger and ire for the shithead who committed the atrocity, and on the cause of it. Gun use in these kinds of crimes is a symptom, not a cause.
Something in our society is fundamentally broken where this kind of thing can happen. Let's focus on that shit first, and then once we tackle that problem effectively, THEN we can worry about guns if they're really still a problem.
Something in our society is fundamentally broken where this kind of thing can happen. Let's focus on that shit first, and then once we tackle that problem effectively, THEN we can worry about guns if they're really still a problem.
