Shocking and sad news today about a massacre at a University in the United States. I sometimes wonder where it all ends.
There is no doubt that massacres such as this one, and many far worse in numbers, occur around the world. However this was not an act of war. It was not a terrorist (in the common accepted definition). It was simply one angry human being with a gun.
Somebody please remind me why we need guns outside of the armed security forces? I’m often told to temper down my blogs for fear of upsetting potential customers. In this case, frankly speaking, you will get my complete mind and nothing short:
There is no possible explanation nor justification of “freedom” to permit the carrying of guns by anyone other than a law enforcement officer or a hunter. So you want to kill deer as they are frolicking near dear-feeders…fine (we supply solar cells to deer-feeder makers and we never stop to think about the deer). However can someone please illuminate me as to why, in this modern day and age, we find excuses to justify the bearing of arms by anyone who gets a license to do so? What is it about guns that enriches our lives?
On Saturday of this past weekend, my son Ethan asked the actress who played the daughter of the store owner in the movie Crash “did you buy blanks on purpose?” She replied “why of course”, as if to say “what right-minded person would buy real bullets to use on another human being?”.
I do not have many answers tonight as I write this blog entry, saddened by the events which occured on Monday. It simply continues to bring perspective to my own life and that of my family and friends. Cherish the day you will spend with them, for you just don’t know when it may be the last. We had such an incident in Montreal a few months ago and it hit close to home when a friend was inside the school which was attacked by a madman. I pray that we are able, as a society, to rethink policies which make such outbursts possible in the first place.
Sass