By now, everyone has heard of the horrific shootings in Aurora, Colorado. I couldn’t get it out of my head today at work, it just filled my thoughts. The more I learned about this, the angrier I got about how many unhinged, dangerous psychos have access to deadly weapons. Not a SINGLE responsible gun owner had the nuts to stand up and denounce this horror. They are too gutless and too cowed by the psychos of the NRA and other assorted gun freaks to do so.
The guy who perpetrated this crime was loaded. He had law-enforcement grade body armor, law-enforcement grade weaponry that he used on the theater patrons. I’m sure the ammunition was to their scale as well. I have to wonder how a civilian gets his hands on that much firepower and NOT set off any alarm bells? Seriously, I don’t get it. Oh, that’s right, everyone has the right to be loaded down with guns like a military armory thanks to the Second Amendment. I wonder how all those bloody gun freaks are feeling about this right now. I hope they’re feeling bad. I hope they’re feeling damned ashamed of themselves because of this horrible incident.
Of course, there is going to be some monumental horse’s arse who will say that if people had concealed carry permits, they could’ve killed the shooter. I KNOW there are morons who think this, who have said it already in response. So instead of Bruce Wayne, some yahoo with a gun wants to be John Wayne and blow holes in the shooter. In a DARK, smoke-filled theater full of frantic people. And they’d be able to aim perfectly to take down the madman, saving the day through more gunfire. Sure. Go ahead, try it, hotshot. Unless you have the pinpoint accuracy of Hawkeye, I wouldn’t bet on it. We’d end up with even more innocent people lying dead and wounded because some mental midget wants to play shoot ‘em up cowboy and play hero. That’s LAW ENFORCEMENT’S job, not some jack-off wannabe hero with a gun.
12 people are now dead, at least 71 wounded from what I heard on the news. I don’t know if more will succumb from their injuries. I am PRAYING that no more die. I’m not saying that people should not have gun ownership, I am saying people need to be gods-damned responsible when they own such a thing as a gun. I would love to have people be required to undergo a mental evaluation to prove they are stable enough to own and use a gun. How many more times is this going to happen before people wake up and demand something be done? I’m tired of this. I am so sick to death of hearing about these kinds of things happening. Gods help us all.
Hey Weaselgal,
“I’m not saying that people should not have gun ownership, I am saying people need to be gods-damned responsible when they own such a thing as a gun. I would love to have people be required to undergo a mental evaluation to prove they are stable enough to own and use a gun.”
Not a bad idea. I am a supporter of the right to bear arms. I support it as I do the right to speak freely or the right o peacably assemble.
I am of course; appalled by the behavior of the shooter in Colorado and others elsewhere.
These weapons that this man was carrying are not to be used lightly.
They are intended for defence against armed assailants; not as tools of a madman or a maladjusted sociopath.
Perhaps the mental evaluation is a good idea.
I would also support firearms training for every citizen at a young age.
Not that everyone must own a gun or shoot one if do not wish but so many senseless deaths could be avoided if people understood and knew how to handle a gun; even if they only ever use it to disable or disarm one.
I know many would consider my idea a bit radical but I still think it would help. In a society where gun ownership is normal; no one should be afraid to touch a gun if necessary and familiarity would reduce the fear.
This is always a hot subject and I don’t want to seen like a “psycho of the NRA”; (I’m not a member)
but in the end if taking away my right to own a weapon (pick-one) would stop the killing; it might be worth it. But saddly it won’t.
I know you’ve heard this before but at the risk of sounding like “some monumental horse’s arse” I must say that but if you take away the legal guns; only the criminals will have guns and our ability as citizens to protect ourselves and our families from foreign invasion or internal militarism will be gone.
yes it may seem unreasonable to think you could have a chance against armed soldiers or professional criminals but in the end; before I give up to tyrany; I want to be able to go down fighting.
So; responsible ownership? Yes; Yes; a thousand times but unrestricted ownership for those who are not unstable or otherwise restricted.
I have provided a link to an article I wrote that goes into this subject a bit more. https://angrymanspeaks.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=450&action=edit (what is this guy crazy?) Reading is totally voluntary but highly reccomended by nine out of ten angrymen.
Angryman, I DO understand you perspective on this. What has bothered me so much is that some gun people are more obsessed with losing their right to bear arms than the victims of this shooting. They give insincere lip service about the massacre, but they are really not interested in who died and was injured. These people are more interested in taking control of this country and establishing their kind of sovereign citizenship doctrine in place of the laws of the land.
I’m not saying people should have their guns taken away, but there are people in this country who are just TOO dangerous to be allowed them. They have proven time and time again they are a public menace and to let them have an arsenal at their disposal is like opening a Pandora’s Box of atrocites on the populace.
If people want guns, they better know exactly what they’re going to be handling. THAT’S what I want.
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This commentary is right on point. This nut job and others like him are literally today’s Menace2Society. As long as these lobotomized pond scum dregs of humanity are allowed access to weapons that can kill masses of innocent people, this nonsense will escalate. There is no such thing as proper “Gun Control” in today’s heavily medicated and messed up society.
I am glad to have read this and I agree completely. Since we mainstreamed the mentally ill and hatred and anger grows in our country, we must take guns out of the hands of everyday citizens.