OK< thought long and hard about this tragedy over the weekend.
Really hard to get my thoughts around insanity but here is what I
think: HEARTBREAKING. The american media are more propagandists than
investigative journalists...at least what I remember from being a
very young boy in line with Woodward & Bernstein, ie Deep Throat.
But I remember...here is the most informative, fact based recap I
have found... http://bit.ly/V1Ohiu
Again, has to come from overseas, sadly.
As is always the case with the insane, there is MUCH more to it than
the inanimate object, the gun, in this case handguns. sad, sad. sad.
God Bless these innocent souls. Turns out (why I said Friday let us
not comment until the facts are clear) the Mom, well, she was a
wacker too!! A loon, survivalist....and he (son) was too, they knew.
Daddy, too busy being corporate for GE (I worked for them, it's is
all consuming, but no excuse, you should have been more involved, you
would have seen your son was NOT NORMAL), mom a survivalist with a
dysfunctional "brilliant" kid...where have we heard this
before? Hmm?
I believe this administration will have a knee jerk reaction with bad
policy, (why change) but let me offer contrary view. No-one is happy
there has been a spat of these loons of late. But, we "outlawed"
illegal drugs how many years ago? Well, under Pres Nixon in 1972.
How's that working? Any improvement? At a cost of how much? For what
result? Money well spent? .....the crazy, the criminal, the insane,
those with no morals, no values, no sense of right or wrong will
always find a way.
I think the real question is, ....Remember the good old days when
little kids played cowboys and indians with cap guns then grew up to
be law abiding, non-violent citizens? What has changed in our
society? That is something to look at, no??? That is the core issue
IMO.
As to the comments on Germany under the
Nazi regime, sorry, factually wrong. The laws adopted by the Weimar
Republic intended to disarm Nazis and Communists were sufficiently
discretionary that the Nazis managed to use them against their
enemies once they were in power. In other words, they didn't need to
pass additional laws. Hitler didn't need to impose gun control
because gun laws were already in effect (ironically, those original
laws were in part designed to disarm the Nazis). Gun control helped
the Nazis keep weapons out of the hands of their enemies, but it
wasn't a major factor in Hitler's success. BUT, the fact the enimies
of the state had no weapons can not be discussed.
Correlation does not imply causation is a phrase used in science and
statistics to emphasize that a correlation between two variables does
not necessarily imply that one causes the other. (insanity vs guns)
just saying.
I think back of the words of the great
German Lutheran Pastor, and disodent, Dietrich Bonhoeffer :
“We have been silent witnesses of evil deeds; we have been drenched
by many storms; we have learnt the arts of equivocation and pretence;
experience has made us suspicious of others and kept us from being
truthful and open; intolerable conflicts have worn us down and even
made us cynical. Are we still of any use? What we shall need is not
geniuses, or cynics, or misanthropes, or clever tacticians, but
plain, honest, and straightforward men. Will our inward power of
resistance be strong enough, and our honesty with ourselves
remorseless enough, for us to find our way back to simplicity and
straightforwardness?” ― Dietrich
Bonhoeffer, Letters
and Papers from Priso
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