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From http://billmoyers.com/2012/07/23/mapping-gun-ownership-and-homicides-by-country/
Personally, I can't wait for the day that people stop killing people. But taking away the instruments of death isn't the answer..because the tools aren't killing people, people are killing people.
We spend so much money on law enforcement and law enforcement technologies..very little on figuring out why innocent little babies are growing with a desire to kill.
Perhaps it's violence in the media? Perhaps it's lack of parental guidance? Perhaps it's our relentless attacks on each others' self esteems? Perhaps it's a product of our "alpha" obsessed culture and the powerlessness, worthlessness and feelings of failure it evokes in society's chosen "omegas"?
It seems that not too many people are REALLY trying to solve the complex problems that result in senseless killing. Instead it seems, as when we take miracle diets or play the lottery, that we are looking for a "quick fix" to our dilemmas.
Taking the guns away isn't going to solve anything.
Ask the soldier in London who was hacked to death with a meat cleaver and a kitchen knife.
Ask the 97 people who died in the Happy Land fire in the Bronx back in 1990.
Ask the victims of the various "stranglers" who used: rope, silk stockings, garrotes, Windex and their bare hands to dispatch their twisted ends.
Ask James Bulger, the innocent 2 year old who was brutally tortured and killed by two 10 year olds who used, among other items: bricks, rocks, boots, batteries, railway steel and gravity.
Shall we regulate EVERYTHING then? Shall all tools be off limits, (including gravity and our hands) because we are so dedicated to this way of life that makes monsters of innocent babies?
Because in the end, if we continue to blame the tools, we will do nothing to fix a society that has gone horribly awry..and the killing will go on.
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