No Guns Please

The other day I was watching the local news on television. The first five articles were about shootings. They were shootings of young people: Shootings of old people: Multiple shootings: School shootings and other articles where guns were used aggressively. All the while I'm sitting on my family room couch wondering why we can't do anything about it.

Wayne LaPierre on the NRA's web site is warning that its just a matter of time before guns are outlawed by the Obama administration even though they have never mentioned anything about doing so. At gun stores the news tells us that the pin heads that own guns are buying ammo at a record pace because they are afraid that guns or ammo will be banned. Again Wayne LaPierre is arguing that there should be no laws limiting or banning any kind of gun or rifle. While he's making this argument our American citizens are being shot at a record pace. We are losing more young people to gun violence on out own shores that were are in Iraq or Afghanistan.

People what we're doing about this kind of crime is not working. I consider myself intelligent and as an intelligent person I know that if something doesn't work you should do something different. Why don't we put a real limit on the ownership of guns so that maybe the streets will be a little safer than they are now.

Guns anybody

On “This Week” George Will made a very typical right wing statement that showed the basic difference between the left and the right. The said there is no community of nations, and that we don’t get along. He said that harmony is not natural and that we could never get along. He said conflict is natural. Its here where the right wing stops they’re thinking. They refuse to go to the next step. It’s the next step that the leader of their religion introduced to the world. Wasn’t it Christ who was called the King of peace? So as far as I can tell one of the major differences between left and right is that the right always think some one is out to get them. The left on the other hand always feel that there is hope that we all can get along. The truth probably lies somewhere between the two extremes.

Well if that’s the case it explains Shawn Hannity, Bill O, Rush, Beck and all the other Right wing nuts that they love listening to and following without stopping to ask them selves why? It also explains why those wing nuts are out buying guns at a record pace. They believe that the Obama administration will put a stop to owning guns even though nobody in the administration has suggested such a move.

The truth is something does need to be done about the availability of guns. The US has more gun deaths than the rest of the world combined and strangely enough we also have the easiest gun ownership in the world. With the recent rash of mass murders by guns it would seem like we have to do something different. We are supposed to be a smart country and I always believe that smart people take responsibility for what they are doing wrong and then do something different to make it better.

We are the most dangerous and violent country in the world. People are shot to death for just riding on the freeways and just sitting in class in school. Our neighbors blame us for their rise in violence they say that the guns being used by the drug cartels are coming directly from the U.S. We have a need to limit the use of guns and the ready access to guns that we have now. That way we can all be a little safer.