Posted by
J Hamilton on Wednesday, February 27, 2008 5:28:36 PM
There was a shooting at the University of Arkansas coming over the wire as I sit here. Now let the knee jerk reaction commence.
I know the kids need to be kept safe, we should send them to school armed with an array of concealed weapons, a bullet proof snowsuit, a helmet, goggles and a panic button but god forbid you pass out condoms. Don’t get me wrong I am not for kids banging around all day long but let’s think about the percentages for just a moment.
I am no statistician but if I was to consider the amount of people that go to class each day and the amount of people killed in school shootings I suspect that there is probably a better chance of getting bit by a shark or dying in a plane wreck, now I am not sure about that but I bet I am close on this one.
Ask yourself; where is this fear coming from? Is it just mortal danger or is it something deeper. You know what I fear; I fear that we will start to seriously consider allowing students to carry guns in school. While you may think this is a good idea and have this view that some responsible young man or woman will gun down a potential crazy, saving their own and by extensions their peer’s very lives. That might happen, then again there is another scenario, several kids start firing in a classroom and it turns into a little blood bath or maybe some normally reasonable kid finds out his college sweetheart got drunk at in a dorm room and nailed some degenerate and flies in seeking vengeance because now they have a gun and an inflated sense of self to go with his surrogate unit decides to exact his revenge OK corral style, where before we might have just had a bar fight. I don’t think this sounds too unreasonable a stretch. Think about how many people you know that at times had the capability to snap in those years.
I would be all for carrying guns if we lived in a society that did not promote and encourage gun violence. If some one breaks into your house kill em, if some one gets in your way squash em, we are a society that is salivating to eliminate the competition, from voting you off the island to nuclear bomb. I wish we could be responsible with fire arms but it doesn’t appear we can be.
Don’t start yelling about your first amendment rights, you can have your guns, just keep them in the closet until the one world government tries to take you land.
So here we are I have complained enough and now I am going to offer you the solution.
Deal with it.
Crazy people do crazy things and the more we press our society into being paranoid the more you are going to squeeze the crazy out of people.