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| Guns kill when triggers are pulled by people. |
Are we headed for an uptick in bullet proof vest and helmet sales instead of an increase in firearm receipts?
Some people have guns around the house because they like to brag about deadly firearms they possess. Others are ex-military or hunters who spend time cleaning, loading, and hiding guns under beds or in locked cases.
Some little old widows go to the firing range and get their permits. They keep loaded twenty twos under their pillows or in nightstand drawers. They have never been known to shoot people on a massive scale.
Some kids who are bullied hide guns in their backpacks, while others sneak them into lunchrooms in boxes. College students plan attacks and rain down death on other students they don't even know.
Haven't heard of anyone getting hacked to death by a Samurai sword lately, like in Kill Bill and Kill Bill 2, but I have heard too much on the news about men, women, and children being slaughtered in small U.S. towns for no apparent reason - assaulted with handguns, shotguns, and military-style munitions.
These frenzied killings have been committed by people who are either out of their minds or possess uncontrollable anger, hate, or disregard for human life.
Yes, this needs to stop.
Who will stand up to secure our country from gun abuse?
Article: ©2012 Tomi Johnson. All rights reserved.
Photo: Wiki Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Generic license. Smith & Wession M&P Victory model revolver photo by Oleg Volk
Eric Broadwell says: You know I am a concealed weapon person. In my junior high days in the 70s kid made zip guns, basically a pipe with a way to hit the bullet and fire it. Kids also took TCH and yellow jacket pills and smoked dope in the bathrooms. If we take the right to arm away from our citizens then we make ourselves vulnerable to attack.
ReplyDeleteNo one is killing innocents more than they are killing people in cars with their car. Maybe you can tell me if we shoot over 40,000 people a year? We kill over 40,000 a year in cars and call them accidents. This number doesn’t include cyclists nor pedestrians.
Most car fatalities ARE accidents...maybe we need better driver education...what we are seeing now is an uptick in cold blooded murder using GUNS fueled by hate, not gasoline! Face it and stop it.
ReplyDeleteEric Broadwell responded: Yes stop the hate not the choice. We are free because we have choice and that there are consequences for those choices. Pulling the trigger is a choice. If that theatre in Aurora CO was in AZ that person would have been dead. In AZ you can take your gun in a holster everywhere. The grocery store can’t require but does have a sign that requests you leave your firearm in the car. So when criminals stop carrying guns so will I.
ReplyDeleteYes, GOD gave us free will..hope you will always remain calm and sober so when you see me breaking line in the grocery checkout lane you don't go off and cause an accident! You are different, of course; however, we are all human, therefore, what another human can do is not alien to us when we're packing heat.
ReplyDeleteG. Calhoun says: That's a tough argument in this country Tomi. I was raised in the country with guns and own them to this day but, i don't feel the need to carry one on my person every day, furthermore, I would not want to be in a movie theater or any other public venue with folks strapped to the teeth...could you imagine the cross fire you could be caught in if something did happen?! I'm not exactly sure what the solution is, but everyone walking around strapped to the teeth sounds like a recipe for disaster to me...just my opinion
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