At what point does one rationally decide that
it’s acceptable to murder a child?
What drives a person to do this?
On Saturday morning, whilst I was heading down
to The Nong, the news broke, and the world caught it’s breath as they came to
terms with a twenty year old had shot dead 27 people (as well as himself), and
that twenty of those victims were children.
What. The. Fuck?
Twenty children.
Primary school aged children.
Elementary school, as they say in America .
Twenty babies that will never see
Christmas. Twenty babies that will never
graduate from high school, college, university, start a job, meet the love of
their life, get married, have babies and start a family of their own.
Twenty children that were robbed of life.
Twenty families that have lost their babies.
Forty parents, eighty grandparents, countless
siblings, cousins, friends, aunts, uncles and fuck knows who else.
Twenty families destroyed because one man
decided that it was okay to shoot them all.
I’ve had a busy few days since this tragedy, and
haven’t really paid a great deal of attention to the continually unfolding news
reports about this horror. All I know is
that this kid shot his mother, and proceeded to the school where she worked,
and claimed another twenty-six lives.
For what, I don’t know. You may, but I still don’t. No doubt they’ll comb his house, his
computer, his history, his life and dig up just about everything they can to
explain why the fuck he did this.
Whatever they find will be cold comfort to the
victims families, though. It won’t get
their babies back.
You know what I wonder? How many of the victims were only
children? How many of those parents lost
their only child? Not that it makes a difference, but you know
what I mean.
How many of those victims were IVF babies, or
adopted or hard to conceive? Again, not
that it makes a difference; a life is a life, but you can imagine the impact on
a couple that has struggled to have a baby, and only has one, and now it’s been
ripped away from them so horrendously.
How would a parent ever recover? Would
they ever recover?
I wish the shooter had survived. I wish they’d taken him into custody, then
accidentally threw him to the mob of waiting parents. He would have been ripped apart, and that
still wouldn’t have been good enough.
Fucken dog.
Two six year old babies were laid to rest
yesterday; the funeral procession begins.
Only eighteen more to go. Dear
God…
I cried when I heard the news. I cried when I stood in front of my bffls big
screen telly on Saturday afternoon, watching a news report. I watched as my bffl’s two year old niece
played quietly at my feet, and wondered what kind of mind it takes to hurt
something as innocent as that.
I can believe they filed the surviving children
out past the bodies; telling them to keep heir eyes closed. Did you see the images? Poor babies were hysterical.
I don’t care what you say; those babies will be
fucked up for the rest of their lives. Nothing
will heal this horror. Time may dim it a
little bit, but it will never be forgotten.
You know what pisses me off the most,
though? The fucken coward took his own
life in the end. Fucking coward. Brave enough to kill innocent children, but
not brave enough to face society’s wrath afterward, you fucken lunatic.
At least you saved the American tax payers
millions of dollars by not rotting in prison or a padded cell, you dog.
And so opens the debate about America ’s
red-neck mentality, and their self-righteous need to ‘bare arms’.
Since Martin Bryant opened fire on the innocent
people of Port Arthur
all those years ago, and the government at the time (Liberal I think it was),
introduced a gun amnesty and massive changes to the constitution relating to
gun ownership in this country, we’ve seen nothing like it since.
Sure, it hasn’t eliminated gun-related crimes,
but it’s certainly eliminated the fuckwit-nutters unloading on the unsuspecting
public.
It’s clearly a safer country, post legislative
changes. However, we don’t have the
relationship to weaponry that the American populous has, do we?
Have you seen the documentary (if you’d call it
that) Bowling for Columbine? If you haven’t, do yourself a favour. It’s…. enlightening. Gives great insight into the American
gun-culture. Pack of gun crazy lunatics.
Two things from this movie stand out in my
mind. Firstly, when you opened a bank
account at a certain bank, you got a free gun.
A free-fucken-gun. For the love of God! ‘Here… open a bank account, and take this gun
and rob us with it. We won’t mind!’
Seriously.
What the fuck are you thinking? Why? Why would you give a completely random person
that you know nothing about, a gun? Why?
Secondly, on one side of a river (I can’t
remember what it was called) is Detroit . On the other side, is Canada . Detroit has
one of the highest gun-related crime rates in America (apparently). You’ve heard all the shit about Detroit from movies and
television and stuff. The place is a
violent shithole.
Across the pond is Canada , where Mike Moore (the
producer of the documentary), randomly walked up to the front door of many
houses, only to find them unlocked. When
he walked in, he was welcomed by the inhabitants.
Wouldn’t see that in Detroit .
Fucken place is locked up like Fort Knox ,
but still doesn’t stop the crime and violence.
One extreme to another, and there are only three
things that separate these patches of earth.
A river, constitutional legislation, and their mindset.
In Canada, gun-related crimes are nearly
non-existent, when in America, thousands of acts of violence are committed with
guns on daily basis.
In Canada , you can safely leave your
house unlocked, and know that people won’t come and rob it. In America , if you leave your house
unlocked, you’d be lucky if the fucken building was still there when you got
back.
In Canada , things are peacefully and
simply resolved. In America ,
aggression and violence rule the day.
Two completely different approaches to life.
A patch of water, laws and a completely
different mindset separate these countries, yet you can actually see the shore
of one if you’re standing on the other.
Fucken ridiculous.
No one on the planet should be surprised that
this horrible crime occurred, simply because of America ’s attitude toward gun
ownership.
I have visions of Charlton Heston (is he still
alive?) being wheeled out to a podium, waving a rifle around, and screaming
‘It’s our constitutional right!’ before a big banner emblazoned with the AGA
(American Gun Association – or something like that. *rolls eyes*
Gun ownership is justified in America ,
because their fucken constitution says they can do it. Forget out putting weapons into the hands of
idiots and the mentally unstable. Forget
out the thousands of lives that are wasted each year because people don’t
respect the weaponry, or more importantly; the value of another person’s life.
It’s their right. So typically, selfishly, aggressively and
arrogantly, they exercise their rights.
God forbid they miss out.
It’s just too easy.
Too easy to own a gun, and too easy to use it.
Clearly, the judicial system in America is not
scary enough to dissuade these idiots from carrying and using these
weapons. Overloaded prisons, constant
re-offences… their rehabilitation and incarceration systems clearly don’t work. The majority of people that leave prison (if
they actually get sent there), re-offend.
So from gun ownership to crime and punishment;
nothing deters the public from exercising their God-given, constitutional
rights.
There have been many tragedies in America
like this. The massacre at Columbine University is a perfect example of
it. A couple of kids took the lives of
so many; all in the name of their own form of social justice.
Today, an eleven year old child was arrested in America for
taking a gun to school. He said he took
it to protect himself. Eleven. Apparently, a family member had given the gun
to the family. What the fuck are they
teaching their children?
High schools in America have metal detectors at
their entrances in an attempt to stop any weaponry entering the school. WTF?
How do you change the mindset of a nation that
has the mentality that ‘violence is the solution’ ingrained into their
DNA? How?
In years gone by, as things like Columbine have
hit the headlines, the call for changes to gun legislation has fallen of deaf
ears.
I wonder now, considering that twenty babies
have been murdered, will they finally see the light? Will the government have the balls to do
something that the families of victims have been crying out for?
Will they finally do something to change the
nation’s mindset?
Many countries around the world have strict
legislation in place surrounding the use and ownership of weaponry. Their crime statistics are nothing compared
to that of America ’s. It’s clear that things need to change.
Will these twenty babies deaths be enough to
force this change?
Or will it all be for nothing.
Again.
May those poor little angels rest in peace, may
their families eventually find some comfort, and may their deaths not be in
vain.
Peace out.
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