Where will the daily shooting be located today?

Apr 12, 2023, 9:06 AM

Now, don't get me wrong, I think there probably HAS been an increase in shootings overall. But, the media is fixated on it now, so if a gun is used anywhere in the country, it will be front page news, to the detriment of all else.

Unfortunately, seems to me all this reporting about gun violence, and the urgent "need" for stricter gun control laws is having a very unfortunate unintended consequence. That is, the sprouting of local "militias", which at least to outward appearances, amount to no more than drunk rednecks with a death wish in a lot of cases. A couple of these organized groups were part of the Jan 6th Capitol takeover, if news reports were accurate. Even if you try to leave politics out of it, I don't know how you could see that as anything other than an Insurrection against the government.

I think that is when the press really got on the gun control bandwagon again, which is why I included it in this message about the daily gun related violence. Our church pastor prays every Sunday about "senseless violence", and prays for another great religious revival in our country. Unfortunately, it appears that we are a lot further down the road to "H.ell in a Handbasket" than we are down the road to a religious revival.

I just pray for a drop in what just appears to any rational person as the totally insane random acts of violence, like the Louisville bank shootings of yesterday. Gun Control Advocates feast on that kind of story. They focus on the guns involved. The focus should have been on the mentally unstable person who pulled the trigger on the gun.

The gun culture in this country is such that there will NEVER be gun control laws enacted that will totally remove certain types of guns being legally purchased, nor should there be. But, contrary to a lot of my gun toting contemporaries, I have no problem with waiting periods, or gun registration, or restrictions on purchase based on past behavior. Those things seem to me to be a good, common sense approach to at least cutting down on any kind of "spur of the moment, or revenge" type of scenario. Of course, the Pro-gun lobby will never stand still for any of that, which is one reason they get a bad rap.

Maybe Chris Rock had it right in a comedy bit years ago. He said, make guns cheap. Make bullets cost $5000 apiece. That would certainly put a damper on purchases, for shore.

Gun control and abortion. Two burning questions, neither of which will ever have a definitive answer, because there isn't one.

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Re: Where will the daily shooting be located today?

And politicians don't want tough answers. They want easy answers. They want to pass a law and then brag about what they did. But it's not that easy with this. Some thoughts:

(1) The problem isn't guns. This country was founded on guns. We've had millions of guns in this country for decades, but the school and workplace shootings are just in the last 30-40 years or so. So something has changed during that time, and it's not guns. They were here before and none of that was happening. There's something else going on.

(2) Pass all the laws you want - mentally unstable people and criminals don't care. There are some that MAY help, and I'm not opposed to many of them, but laws don't PREVENT anything. They only provide a means of prosecuting them AFTER the fact.

(3) There are no easy fixes. There is no fix that any one congressman or president will be able to lay claim to. It's a deep, societal issue that needs a complex, multi-faceted approach. And that's way above my pay-grade.

(4, last) So in the meantime, we need to lock down our schools as much as possible. Schools and other businesses or institutions need to be free to have armed security on site, if they see fit. A little picture of a handgun with a circle and slash through it won't stop a shooter. A good guy in the school or business - that might.

Just my 2 cents. God help us.