Posted: Sat Dec 15, 2012 6:24 pm
You don't need to do anything other than accept the consequences.
People have guns, other people are going to get shot.
Forget the rhetoric, it is just a question of accepting the consequences. You can lie to yourself that more guns equals fewer shootings of law abiding folks (!?), but the data doesn't support your hypothesis. Don't hide behind the fact that he was "depressed/crazy/evil" he had access to guns, and he shot innocent children because of that. Nobody is going to say it isn't a heart breaking tragedy, including advocates of easier access to firearms for the masses. They are presumably either comfortable that their ability to buy a Sig and protect themselves is worth the heinous acts that will occur because of that right. Or they are able to lie so convincingly to themselves, that they can fabricate a disconnect between gun ownership and shooting people.
Every decision has a consequence. Life $#@!ed up because you had three or four beers and chose to drive home instead of calling a cab? Sorry, your choice, man up and accept the consequences of your actions.
Someone else ended up dead because of your @#(!ty choice to drive home? Then they get the sympathy, and you get to live with what you did. Welcome to real life. Hard isn't it?
America doesn't need stricter gun control, you just need to accept that abject tragedies like this are going to occur more frequently because you choose to let them. Not government, just you: "The People".
If you are happy that it is a fair trade, then you don't need to do anything and you will sleep soundly tonight. My heart truly goes out to those who lost precious people in this horrible shooting. Their grief must be unbearable.
People have guns, other people are going to get shot.
Forget the rhetoric, it is just a question of accepting the consequences. You can lie to yourself that more guns equals fewer shootings of law abiding folks (!?), but the data doesn't support your hypothesis. Don't hide behind the fact that he was "depressed/crazy/evil" he had access to guns, and he shot innocent children because of that. Nobody is going to say it isn't a heart breaking tragedy, including advocates of easier access to firearms for the masses. They are presumably either comfortable that their ability to buy a Sig and protect themselves is worth the heinous acts that will occur because of that right. Or they are able to lie so convincingly to themselves, that they can fabricate a disconnect between gun ownership and shooting people.
Every decision has a consequence. Life $#@!ed up because you had three or four beers and chose to drive home instead of calling a cab? Sorry, your choice, man up and accept the consequences of your actions.
Someone else ended up dead because of your @#(!ty choice to drive home? Then they get the sympathy, and you get to live with what you did. Welcome to real life. Hard isn't it?
America doesn't need stricter gun control, you just need to accept that abject tragedies like this are going to occur more frequently because you choose to let them. Not government, just you: "The People".
If you are happy that it is a fair trade, then you don't need to do anything and you will sleep soundly tonight. My heart truly goes out to those who lost precious people in this horrible shooting. Their grief must be unbearable.