Welcome to Friday! Welcome to Insanity. The U.S. is once again showing the world just how Free We Are to run amok with weapons to shoot a hoard of innocent people. This time the lives of elementary school children and 6-7 adults (including The Shooter) in Newtown CT, were taken by someone who, as of the current news, walked into the Sandy Hook Elementary School and killed at least 26 people, reportedly 20 of whom were children.
The motive must rest in family discord which triggered a deep emotional, mental illness, as the shooter's mother taught at Sandy Hook and in whose KINDERGARTEN classroom most of the fatalities occurred. She was not in the room, or at the school, however, as he had already killed her at her/their home in Newtown before moving on to the school, ready for combat dressed what the media loves to repeat as "Black clothing..." Almost Combat-Like.
Media pundits are now running at the mouth over the political implications of this latest gun-related mass shooting at a school, asking how Prez Obama is going to handle this latest atrocity in relation to Gun Control. Once again, as I wrote in "A Dark Night" when mentally unbalanced James Holmes blasted a movie theatre audience, the hand-wringing and questions abound over "Gun Control" after these incidents, ultimately to no avail as it now stands.
I'm questioning why several guests on MSNBC, for example, are saying that "politics shouldn't be a part of the discussion today" yet bring politics right into the center of their answers and questions. What does Obama have to do with this tragedy? Enforce stronger laws on Gun Control when we all know that if someone wants a specific Killing Toy they can find it within a click of an Internet Finger or in the open at a Gun Show as well as in the Proverbial Clichéd Back Alley? What can be done? Sorry, but I sincerely doubt that we can "turn back time." We may someday be able to contain the purchase of guns by people who, technically, "shouldn't" have them, but we've gone too long, too far, in allowing access to weapons by almost anyone that it would be The Height Of Naiveté to expect change in that area that would make a difference.
I'm not being "Negative." I'm realistic on this issue. Crazy is as crazy does and a Crazed Person is going to Act Out. Period. If the person was considered at one time to be "sane" enough to buy a weapon or three hundred, but suddenly has a Major Meltdown, how can the violence be stopped?
It's The Wild West again, my friends. The difference now is that there is no one-on-one Main Street Showdown between The Good Guy And Bad Guy. It's as if Buffalo Bill/Jesse James and Other Gunslingers are riding into any town and, for reasons only they know, decide to shoot-up every building on Main Street during a drunken rampage. Yee-Haw!
The weapons used in today's shooting were reportedly "typical" handguns – nothing Super-Duper-Heavy-Metal, just at least two 9 mm's handguns that anyone can legally procure. At least one rifle and another firearm was found either/or in his car or at the scene, if not both, although not used in the assault. As far as "we" know at this time.
In addition, it is also reported that the Now Dead Gunman killed his father in New Jersey prior to his trek into Connecticut to make his dramatic deadly impact on his mother and her students at the neighbourhood elementary school. (This particular info is not confirmed at the moment of this post and could be erroneous.) Clearly, The Shooter had issues. Don't they all or else why would they carry out their deadly fantasies?
Who can stop this madness? No one. That is the truth. We can write and talk and write and talk and posture and so on over "Gun Control" - but it seems to me that the underlying Cause of these horrific mass shootings is a Mental Health Issue and not Gun Control. All a gun does is make it easier for a disturbed person to kill their targets. I'm sure without a gun another means of expressing rage and continuing the Killing Spree In Their Mind would have a similar ending…
But then, that's just my opinion. We will soon learn more about this mess as the day unfolds.
RIP all victims of another "Senseless Shooting."
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