Ah, Morgan...is there anything you don't know?
Seriously, I f*ckin' HATE when tragedies like this turn into yet another debate about guns.
Now before I get started on my tangent, let me just say I am not trying to mock anyone's belief system, nor do I think any one side is in the wrong for feeling the way they do. This is just the way I see it...
Whenever a tragedy like this happens, people immediately go to their respective side of the gun control issue and start spouting off, as if these tragedies give them an excuse to jump on a soapbox. I understand discussions like these are necessary in times like this, but like Morgan said, I think it's more for the attention factor and less that these people actually want to do something about the problem.
I'm sorry, but I think it's disrespectful when a tragedy like this happens, and people start in on "by God, you ain't takin' my guns!" Like anyone is thinking about taking your f*cking guns right now, when little children are dead. Yeah, I'm sure the first thing the parents who have just lost their innocent little children are thinking about is, "gee, how can I take Jim-Bob's gun away from him?" I hardly think so. I just think it is a slap in the face to everyone going through this tragedy right now.
News flash to the soapbox ranters: it's not all about you. These people are facing the most horrific thing that will probably ever happen to them (God willing) in their entire lives: losing a child. Isn't it enough that news cameras are camped outside their homes? Isn't it enough that the little school friends of their children have microphones shoved in their faces, asking to recant the memories that will no doubt have them on a shrink's couch for the rest of their adult lives? And somehow, through all that, these people think they have the right to whine and b*tch about the possibility that someone is gonna take their precious little penis replacement—I mean, guns—away from them. How f*cking selfish can people be?
And don't think I'm only focusing on the pro-gun people; they just seem to scream the loudest. I think it's just as bad when the anti-gun folks start in on their, "see? If we abolished all guns this never would have happened!" Do you think that makes the parents feel better about this? Do you think that your I-told-you-sos is really going to help in the healing process? Yeah, right. As if these people aren't going to live enough with the regret of "what if I'd left my child out of school that day?" or "what if I lived on the other side of town and my kid went to an entirely different school?" Do you really think all of your "what if?" scenarios are going to help in the grieving process? News flash to you guys too: it doesn't.
Whatever your take is about guns, they were legal as of yesterday, and they are still legal here today. I think as a society, people need to focus more on the victims and what we can do on our part as a society to help keep these things from hapepning again. I don't think we can ever fully avoid it, no matter what we do, but working together as a society might help, rather than pointing fingers at each other and blaming those who think differently than us for being part of the problem. Because as soon as someone starts in on the blaming, they're no longer part of the solution either.
For the record, I voted none of the options in the poll due to the fact that each option has their own set of said consequences, and in the end, it does mean whatever solution that is decided comes out of the taxpayers' dollars; and due to other reasons I'd rather get into at some other time, I am sick and tired of putting money into a public school system that has shown time and time again to be a failure.
End rant. Carry on.
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