Cost of Insanity
With every horrendous massacre, while Americans are still digging graves and weeping, one faction says this proves we need tighter gun control, another side rises up in arms about constitutional rights, there’s political posturing, shouting and name-calling while losing sight of the threat, then it dies down until the next time children are murdered.
With yet another horrendous massacre, while Americans are still digging graves and weeping, one faction says this proves we need tighter gun control, another side rises up in arms about constitutional rights, there’s political posturing, shouting and name-calling while losing sight of the threat, then it dies down until the next time children are murdered.
How stupid can we get? And who are the insane?
Gun control isn’t the answer, it isn’t even the question, it’s too late for gun control in the world. Everbody has guns and nobody will permit government to collect them. Gun control is a red herring that doesn't even identify the threat. The shooters are not gun enthusiasts, not gun collectors, not hunters, not even the para-quasi-military lunatic fringe crazies. The shooters are loners, shy, angry, quiet social outsiders feeling abused, bullied; raging, resenting, seething, biding. Profiled, they are mentally ill. Unseen, unnoticable, to some extent invisible, difficult to identify; impossible, unthinkable in America to round up, concentrate and eliminate. They will get whatever they want to murder insanely: guns, ammunition, explosives. Gun control? A shooter doesn’t need a license to own a gun, a shooter can grab his parent’s guns, which in an insane world can include military firearms.
Calls for “meaningful action” need realism not stupidity or temporary political posturing. The threat is mental illness, personal and public insanity. It can be countered at least two ways. Individual treatment and public defenses. Individual treatment may help some. Public defenses would help not only against shooters but against the growing threat of terrorists. Every school, mall, theater, church, office and industrial complex, and public gathering place will have to become an armed fortress of security. It won't be the America that our forefathers envisioned, or the America that we older generation knew. Want to live there? Seem insane? It's the cost of tolerating insanity.
With yet another horrendous massacre, while Americans are still digging graves and weeping, one faction says this proves we need tighter gun control, another side rises up in arms about constitutional rights, there’s political posturing, shouting and name-calling while losing sight of the threat, then it dies down until the next time children are murdered.
How stupid can we get? And who are the insane?
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