Americans and their guns
America is a great country, I’ve lived there and I may live there again one day. Today 28 people were shot dead including 20 children, babies in fact at an elementary school in a prosperous town in Connecticut. Elsewhere in that great country today 84 people were killed by a gun, and more than twice that number have been injured. That is the daily average.
In Chicago, a place close to my heart, the number of homicide victims this year has outnumbered the fatalities among US troops serving in Kabul.
In American homes around the country families will be devastated by today’s tragic news. Mum’s and Dad’s will hold their own children extra tight before they put them in bed tonight. Yet in the majority of those homes there will be a gun, no doubt legally purchased.
Private citizens in the US own some 300 million pistols, revolvers, rifles, and shotguns. And the manufacturers and distributors that pay dues to the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) and make contributions to the National Rifle Association (NRA) are selling more every day. This will not change.
Americans are killing each other, and they don’t understand why. Sleep tight little children.
CA – never understood “the right to bear arms?” Surely the North Koreans have a case for nuclear weapons?
One cant comprehend what those parents are feeling right now, such a waste of young innocent lives, like you CA, I have worked In America for many years, in Texas, I love the country, and the people, but Americans are so protective of their right to own firearms, some of which an army would be proud of having.
What I can never fathom, is the American slant of themselves as being the best and most modern country in the world, yet always having to use the constitution – that was drawn up back in the later part of the 1700’s, as the excuse to bare fire arms, at some point in the future, they are going to have to face the fact ( before they Kill themselves completely), that they need to bring that Constitution into line with this modern day living in the 21st century.
I really do wonder at times what has more rights…..the person(s) to have fire arms, or the person(s) right to live..
Well said TA.
I’m sure you’re right that nothing will really change. I guess at most there’ll be some tightening up of who can buy guns, but with so many guns around, anyone determined or deranged enough will still be able to get hold of one. So depressing.
Just another thought….. A Bloke puts a bomb in his shoe and 11 years later I am still taking my shoes off at the airport. 13 years ago Columbine happened yet little children are still being shot dead in their schools.