Gun Control: Means Use Two Hands

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In the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, the all too predictable all out assault on the right to bear arms has taken center stage just as we knew it would.
Unfortunately this tragedy is only compounded by the fool's rush to false judgment regarding the cause of this unspeakable crime.

When we all stand back, and take a cold hard look at the facts surrounding the majority of mass shootings, one truism stands above the rest; every one of these perps is nuts.
Certifiable. Straight jacket wearing, rubber room living people; who for the safety of the vast majority must be identified, institutionalized.

In short, a tiny minuscule percentage of our population who own guns, also match the above description.

Guns, like all machines requiring human interface have no capacity for evil or insanity of their own.
Those traits are strictly under the purview of man.
We as humans must recognize that we have a duty to our fellow citizens; that duty is to not allow familial love to cloud our judgments.
We have to be willing to acknowledge reality when it smacks us upside the head like a round from a AR-15. By then it's usually too late.
Mentally unstable members of our families must never be allowed to own, operate, or possess for any reason or period of time any fire arm. Period. Isn't that logical?

If the irrepressible urge to murder innocents arises, and "Box of Rocks Billy" doesn't know how to use, or have access to a gun, the chances for successfully stopping a slaughter have greatly increased. Right?

But then, what if "Box of Rocks Billy" finds, (yes he reads!) the recipe for a fertilizer bomb online like Timmy McVeigh did.
Decides that a truck bomb, even in that deranged dysfunctional brain of his, is a far more efficient way to take down a school.
Will banning assault weapons, ammo clips, hell even slingshots for that matter save a single life in that school?
Do you think it would have stopped Timmy?
Will we outlaw U-Haul's next?

Know this people, as did Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto Commander in Chief of Japan's combined fleet during WWII, the only reason this nation will never be invaded is because every other nation on Earth, knows that behind every blade of grass lies a gun waiting for the opportunity to defend the freedom hard won over nearly 250 years of nation hood.

American Tragedy: What Was Mom Thinking

As more facts come to light regarding the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School, the story becomes more tragic at every turn. One such crucial piece of information is something we should all take to heart, and act upon vigilantly.

Just revealed today, Mrs. Lanza mother of Adam who murdered 26 people, not only collected guns in a  home she housed her nut case son in, she actively pursued his education in handling firearms.
Normally I would applaud such a parental move; if any of us is to have guns in our home we should train our able minded family members in their safe legitimate use.

However when your child is troubled mentally; training that child to use a gun, or even keeping a gun where it can be obtained by that child is straight up fucking nuts.
That, as Mrs. Lanza had the extreme misfortune of discovering, was just as effective as placing the barrel of the gun at her own temple. The only difference being that twenty five other people had to die before that epiphany entered and left her dying mind.

Note to all of you who suspect you've got a family member ready to go over the deep end, it is incumbent upon you to actively participate in that individuals disarming.
If you're placing, or allowing guns to remain in the hands of the unstable, you are every bit as guilty of the crimes that person commits. Fortunately for Mrs. Lanza she doesn't have to be haunted by her sons deadly rampage, nor does she live with the consequences. That wreckage was left behind for the devastated families and community of Newtown to sift through.

American Tragedy

This last Friday December 14 2012, the world bore witness to yet another psychotic atrocity.
A young man loaded with weapons, ammo, and untreated delusions; destroyed the lives of every man woman and child in Newtown, Connecticut. After he killed his mother, and just before he terminated his own sorry excuse for existence, his actions took the lives of twenty kids in the first grade, and six adults valiantly attempting to stop the carnage.

In the aftermath of this inexplicable rampage, our society's knee jerk reaction is to regurgitate tired, old, and thoroughly disproven ideas of gun control, and prohibition of ownership of certain types of firearms.
Am I the only one looking at this from the standpoint of other failed prohibition attempts?
Why can't we as a nation face the fact that there are a very small number of us who must be institutionalized to protect the vast majority from these behaviors.

America has very little to offer it's citizens in the way of pre-emptive protection from the insane; 'twas not always the case dear reader, but due to the legal actions of certain civil liberty organizations, society's safety net of asylums for the insane has been largely dismantled. Thus we have the tragedy we had Friday; a mother out of her depth trying to homeschool a son who should have had professional help in a secure residential facility. Far from other children, weapons, and his mother who would no doubt still be alive were the option open to her.

People, we can all agree when children are senselessly massacred as they were December 14th, change must occur. But that change must not promulgate an entirely new set of problems for our society to confront. People kill people, the gun only operates at the behest of the human. If we go forward with any type of gun prohibition we blindly cast aside the lessons of our history, hard fought and often times futile.

Just a few short weeks ago,we witnessed the first strategic blow against another exercise in prohibition futility when Washington state citizens voted for the legalization of marijuana. With weed having been illegal for like 80 years, and evermore people imbibing, the reality of the situation for most forward thinkers has set in. Prohibition does not work. The genie has been out of the bottle for so long now, his descendants are intermarried with all of our clans.

The same is also true of guns in America, the reality is there are more guns floating around legally and illegally in our country now than at anytime in the history of man, that controlling them in any way is farcical in the extreme.
Ask yourselves, with all of the money and resources dedicated to the interdiction of drugs, the fact that drugs of greater variety and power are available in ever increasing quantities; what is the likelihood that a gun ban will work? Like drugs, they will only arrive in greater volume, be more powerful, and available to anyone with cash. No regulatory oversight, no taxes to pay, just one more chance for corrupt overpaid bureaucrats to look the other way while they take the gold rather than the lead.

Barry, you need to seize this opportunity to step up Barry Care to include mental health facilities that have been sorely lacking in our nation for decades. Your chief chip on the table to Boehner is the promise not to go after gun legislation. This episode should have lifted the veil from all of our eyes, it is imperative to pro-actively treat those in need rather than incarcerating or burying them and a whole bunch of others later.