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My sister and I were actually just talking about gun control yesterday because there was a small shooting in Dallas which is just the city right next to us.
Again, part of the problem is the general misconception about gun control: so many people automatically assume gun control equals, "the gumment takin r gunz away!" Not the case at all. What it is is making gun laws stricter to try and avoid situations like this from happening, where guns easily fall into the wrong hands; it's bad enough that gun violence is this country is so bad that you might as well wear a bullet-proof vest everytime you go outside. I mean, heck, one of our local parks recently made it legal to carry guns into the park (if you have a permit to own and use one), and when regular park goers were interviewed about it, they all pretty much said, "I come here with my kids so they'll have a safe place to play, but now we can't come here anymore, because what if someone pulls out a gun and starts shooting at everybody?" That's just sad. And while I don't know or have read all the details yet, it makes me wonder just what kind of security measures were taken at this concert? Was the guy not searched? I mean, heck, you can't go to the movies now without getting searched (makes it harder for my mom to smuggle in cheaper snacks). Like so many other tragic shootings, I'm positive this could have been avoided.
I'm only going to say this once. I try very very very VERY hard not to say "such and such a Right Wing organization is evil," but there's no other way to describe the NRA. It's been pretty much common knowledge for years that they speak not for the gun owners, but rather the gun manufacturers who don't give a quantum singularity about safety. Who cares who gets killed? They make their money. And they make even more money when a tragedy happens because they sell the paranoia that "gumment gonna tayke der gawwwwns!!!" And as the NRA is a lobbyist group, well...you know the drill. Either shill for us, or we'll spend the same borderline sexual favor worth of money on someone else. Even the staunchest Second Amendment, give 'em to your kids like in countries we don't like, types are smart enough to know regulation is the best way for them to keep their guns. But we have the same loudmouth paid opinionheads spreading more paranoia and victimization and that riles up the vocal minority. The very same vocal minority that NRA and gun manufacturers cater to.
I also agree to that. Obviously, she wasn't a huge star and wasn't surrounded by hundreds of giant bodyguards, but they could have made a better effort. Like when there was that Dark Knight Rises shooting. Sure, mental health, how was he able to get a gun...blah blah blah. How the heck come the theater didn't have anyone standing by the exit door or even so much as a surveillance system. While a shooting tragedy there was unthinkable, know what is? Someone sneaking into a darn movie without paying. Essentially rule number one of movie theaters. Really.
And it turns out it's an act of "terrorism" (or in real terms pathetic loser who got angry at the wrong people and went to the internet for other pathetic losers to indoctrinate him). Which makes my point all the more valid. The government is doing almost everything to try and crack down on terrorism (not buggering with the Middle East and blocking websites not withstanding), except for these gun loopholes. And frankly, that's where we need protection the most. That seems the best strategy for terrorism, since no one's stopping backdoor, straw purchases of war weapons that shouldn't be sold to civilians at any cost...but, you know...NRA and the gun manufacturers again. I had a hunch that after last year's Californian shooting, this would be what lone wolf wastes of human life would do next. Straw purchasing to build up stockpiles of weapons no civilian should ever have.
Exactly. I mean, heck, this is becoming a ridiculous as alllllll the way back in the days of the Old Testament, when the Israelites kept turning to their pagan idols, God would start smiting them, they'd come running back to Him crying, so he'd let them off the hook, and this kept going on and on and on in a vicious cycle, till finally, God got fed up and was like, "Nah, you know what? I'm done with this routine. You want help? Get it from your golden cows and goats, I'm outta here." Every time something like this happens, Obama tries to open people's eyes to what stricter gun laws would do to prevent things like this from happening (like you say, closing up all the backdoor loopholes and such), but the other side is always, "NO! Obummer's gunna tak r gunz away! He da wurst prez we eva had! y u stoopit peepul vot 4 him?!" So, seeing as he's getting nowhere, he's finally stopped trying to address the issue because he knows nobody is going to listen to him, so then, those exact same people are like, "Obummer aint dressin da shoosting! Obummer dont care about us! He da wurst prez eva!" So, it's like, if Obama tries to do something, he's met with resistence . . . so when he doesn't even bother trying, he's still met with resistence.