So, I have been thinking about the gun violence in our country and how I feel about the current state of things. It is such a complicated issue, it is very difficult for me to pick a side. Then I wonder, do I really need to pick a side? I am very conflicted on it, I am pretty damn sure that gun control is not the answer but I recognize, as does the President and MANY others, that we need to do something. Douglas County Sheriff's Office identified the nine people killed as Lucero Alcaraz, 19; Quinn Glen Cooper, 18; Kim Saltmarsh Dietz, 59; Lucas Eibel, 18; Jason Dale Johnson, 33; Lawrence Levine, 67; Sarena Dawn Moore, 44; Treven Taylor Anspach, 20; and Rebecka Ann Carnes, 18. This is madness!
I know people kill people, guns don't kill people. My primary issue with gun control is this, and it has nothing to do with my feelings on it. My issue is when we (the current crop of elected political dipshitoids) start putting stipulations on the Constitution we jeopardize the sanctity of the rule of law. We will have created the ability of politicians who happen to be in office at that moment to determine a list of approved or disapproved list of sorts. It is a slope that seems the start of something we do not want, as free Americans. What happens next, another group places some addition limitations and so on until what, we ain't allowed to have any?
On the other hand, I have to ask - why is it ok for our country to allow these killings to continue? We can even predict the exact flurry of activity by the minority speaking about how it is not the guns and how we should argue for more people to carry and even carry guns in the open. It is a well rehearsed media blitz, fine tuned through many iterations of the same story. They know which strings to pull and the automatons line up to say there piece, be it in he news, the office or on Facebook.
Funny thing is, the other side has the same tired assed media blitz strategies as well. I am sick of the bullshit that comes out of both sides. I am sick of the bullshit that comes from it and I am sick of the two sides ineptitude on providing any freaking solutions to the actual problem. Why don't they, they are too wrapped up in their own bullshit and their own political side of the story.
Ya know who they are, we talk about them all - they are the right wing and the left wing. Problem is, both have forgotten and are not even able to understand that the two wings, both right and left, are still equally important parts of the same damn bird! They bicker at each other, like freaking children, and never really solve any problems. In a world without problems their importance is diminished, they feed on the self aggrandizing bullshit they spew out of their heads when bad things happen. They don't care about getting victims of these senseless shootings justice, they fill us with platitudes while moving on to the next thing that gets them back in the publics eye - something that contributes to getting them elected.
We as the masses move on, numb to the facts that we are all complicit in it, regardless I which side you take. Desensitized to violence of this stupendously heinous nature. Our elected officials have not been able to solve this problem! Taking away our rights to bear any arms is not the answer. Doing nothing is not the answer - they have failed us! I do not pretend to know how to solve these, one of the reasons I am not running for office. But shouldn't we demand the ones we do send into represent us be able to solve problems? Or are we too worried about the party line, which ever one you happen to tow?
I want to say I am sorry to the families and friends of Lucero Alcaraz, Quinn Glen Cooper, Kim Saltmarsh Dietz, Lucas Eibel, Jason Dale Johnson, Lawrence Levine, Sarena Dawn Moore, Treven Taylor Anspach, and Rebecka Ann Carnes. I am sorry, for what ever reasons, that our government has not even tried to solve the problem that ended up taking your family member or friend in a violent death. It makes me mad as hell, I am going to be looking for some group that is working on this and support that anyway I can.
My heart goes out to all the folks in Roseburg Oregon. We were at Crater Lake, a short distance away, enjoying some vacation time with a Brotehr in law and his wife when this happened. We went past Roseburg on the I-5 and saw the media trucks lining up, they will invade that small town with the ruthlessness of a bull in a china shop and take over the town. Asking stupid questions to people who may or may not have any real involvement. They will have to fill days of news with non stop coverage, there will be crisis mongering and folks spewing righteous indignation. But at the end of day it will fade in to the past with little fane fair, little to nothing will change and we will have diminished just a little more the importance and absolute preciousness of life.
What say you about this madness?
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