Well it has happened again. Some school in Finland and some school in Western Canada has had some kind of gunman walk in and either threaten or actually use a firearm against the students. Before the smell of the gunpowder dissipated and before the interrogation of one of the gunmen was even started, the Gun Control advocates yelled their cries of doom.
Without getting into the details of who the gunmen were or why they would do such a thing or how they managed to go undetected in our society for so long and other IRRELEVANT questions which are supposed to prevent future tragedies like this; I would like to know from these Gun Control advocates, just how do they expect someone who is willing to disregard a law like "You shall not murder" to actually respect a gun control legislation?
I don't recall hearing about students grabbing some musket and going to their local school to threaten or shoot anyone in any history books. I don't recall seeing any mention in any historical newspapers of the early 20th century of kids who grabbed one of their daddy's military weapon from the war and deciding to do what we have had since the late 20th century. Laws were much more relaxed, we did not assume that everyone was some ticking time bomb waiting to happen so we did not legislate in that fashion. Nor did we have such weird psychotic episodes on a regular basis.
Perhaps we should look at that and see what has changed in our society between yesterday and today. Now there is where you will find the reasons of why this has happened, why it will continue to happen and how we can really stop it. Making some law that only the respectable citizen will follow is only tying up the hands of the proper upstanding citizen. The ones wanting to do this law are very naive and seem to think that a band-aid solution will stop the artery from bleeding out. You put a band-aid on a small cut. A gashed artery needs something different and we never seem to want to deal with the artery that has been gashed.
Planes go in buildings and we create a terror watch list that has included sons of senators who happen to be unlucky enough to have a similar name to a suspect. An opera critic is placed on this list because 20 years ago he commented how the opera building should blow up because the show is so terrible. We discover that if the traditional police procedures had been followed as they were supposed to, the planes would not have gone into any buildings..... yet we made a law to restrict more freedoms for the law-abiding citizen.
Some maniac stabs someone in a bus, making this the second incident of its kind in Canada in matter of months. I hear someone say to the media :"Why haven't they done anything to protect us?" Did this lady actually think that the bus company should now strip search every passenger and verify each baggage going on the bus? Assume that they do this, then what? Each honest citizen will submit to such procedures and the maniac will find some ingenious way to circumvent it.... back to square one. Problem unsolved, illusion of "everything is great" maintained.
All three of the above problems can be solved simply. Solutions have already been posited but ignored. Generations ago prophetically warned of these things if we went down the road that we actually took.... Did we take notice of these warnings then? We scoffed at them.... now the warnings come true and we have forgotten what was stated by the quacks. We continue down some road that was chosen by a charlatan we thought to be wise and wonder where the smell of the sulfur is coming from. Instead of turning back and taking another road, we create gasmasks and force everyone to wear one to hide the growing stench.... Wait, who's that guy up ahead dressed up in the red suit with a pitchfork? Is he welcoming us with a mocking smile?
Try this as solution: it is not the police officer's job to discipline your child, it is not the teacher's job to discipline your child; it is the parent's job to discipline the child. The undisciplined child grows up to become an undisciplined adult and he has kids, then grandkids..... inevitably-> Poof! The bubble we have created for ourselves of how we wish reality to work explodes in our faces and instead of admitting that we lied to ourselves, we proudly create a new lie to cover the old yet exposed lie.
Another gunman in our school? Quick! Bring out the gun control law and wave it in his face so that his gun can magically transform itself into handcuffs that attach him to a rehabilitating center where he can discuss how his dad beat him out of cruelty. A chef is travelling to another city on a bus and brings with him some of his cutlery because he will demonstrate his latest dish? Quick, he must be guilty of some crime because he has large cutting knives with him.... lets refuse him passage on the bus and waste more of the police's time in questioning him instead of allowing them the time to catch real culprits. We have national enemies? Quick, lets assume that our fellow citizens are all in on the plot.... just that they don't quite know it themselves, meanwhile the real enemy carries on with whatever it is that they are trying to achieve.
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