I read a tweet today, that really got my blood boiling. #Taft it was said "How dare they say that more guns = less violence?" my response to that is as follows:
Well I think its been proven that less guns = more violence. how many guns were in Sandy Hook? Taft HS? or any other school shooting, other than what the "criminal" had? Do I hear ZERO? That’s right ZERO. Had there been even one person trained on how to use a gun, and carrying a gun in any of the shootings, there may have been a different story. Look at our schools as a small microcosm of a disarmed America, the population disarmed, and they get shot like sitting ducks when someone comes in who doesn't follow the rules. They just end up being sheep waiting to be slaughtered.
The problem lies not with guns, but with the people using them. I had a gun when I was 9 years old, I never took it to school and shot anybody. In High School I even took an old shotgun, flintlock pistol, and flintlock rifle to school one day for a presentation. I stored them in my locker, until class and them carried them down the hall to the class room, did my presentation, then took them out to my car after class. Did they kill anyone? Nope. I Imagine about half the boys in my school had a gun in their car or truck on school property during the day, either going hunting before or after school, and most of us....allot of girls included, carried pocket knives from first grade all the way through High School.
The problem lies not with guns, but our culture. We live in a society were everyone takes the position, it's not my fault, or the government will take care of me. We no longer have any personal responsibility. You spank your child, the child says something to somebody, and then CPS is knocking on your door, and taking your child away, and then its up to you to prove you did nothing wrong. Or the schools try to discipline a kid and the parent is knocking down the door yelling at the "offender" for disciplining their brat. and then, you have video games that promote war and the killing of Innocent people.
When I was in school, we had corporal punishment available to our teachers, and I got spanked a couple of times, but for the most part I kept it pretty straight because of the threat of getting a "Hack". The couple of times I did get a hack, did I tell my parents? Hell no. Because I knew I would get paddled twice as hard as the teacher did.
Now I'm not saying video games kill people, just as I don't believe that guns kill people. Both require the help of a human. But if you take a twisted person and let them play killing video games in their spare time, and they get ahold of a gun, there is a greater chance something bad is going to happen.
In my opinion, what needs to happen is parents need to start being parents again. Kids don't sit in their rooms for hours on end playing video games/watching TV. They need to get outside, do something, get a job, do chores around the house, get some exercise. When they get out of line, they need to be spanked, either by the parent, passerby, teacher, whoever needs to do it. Kids are too coddled today. When they graduate they are either enrolled in college, or they go into government service/military for for 4 years where they get some discipline, and maturity. When the ones that went to college get out they do 2 years service.
Also there needs to be more mental health services available, and we need to realize as a nation, that unfortunately not everyone is capable of being in the public sector. Get rid of the main stream guidelines, put kids where they get the help they need. If it's a mental institution, then that's where they need to be not in our schools. If their I/Q is low maybe they need to be in a special school where they specialize in those issues.
In closing, we need to do something, but gun control is not the issue. This is a societal issue and until something is done in our society to correct that, it will just continue to happen, with more and more regularity.
