We have become a re-active and very emotional society. witness how long and extensive coverage continues with celebrity deaths mass shootings, a celebrity's bad behavior. this extensive coverage is bad because it marginalizes the event and actually creates more apathy than empathy. Hollywood types will cry out for gun control and then continue to make movies like Ä natural born Killer."
Worse yet all of this attention getting will cause politicians to look for an easy answer and of course that easy answer is gun control. Forgive me but i was not one to fall for Obama's alligator's tears. He was posing for his push on gun control.
The direct cause of this latest mass killing was again a young person in desperate need of mental health care. One cannot judge the family. There is little help either from private or public sources for families. Some families abondon mentally unstable members, while some mentally unstable leave on their own accord. Even for famiies willing to help the mental health community is either inept or not provided suffiecient funds in which to operate successfully. Mental health professionals often misdiagnose their patients, some abuse them or simply show little compassion in the same manner they would a cancer patient.
The direct cause of this and many such tragedies is our nation's inability to deal effectively with this problem but this long drawn out emotional display by the mass media will bury this fact.. We seem not to have a problem with tackling other issues, some more complex and life threatening.
In past generations our american ancestors dealt with massacre, those killed in wars, etc by paying proper respects and then moving on with the determination that they would deal with the root cause and eliminate it. Now we mourn and mourn and mourn and then deflate
To be sure my heart cries out for those killed in Connecticut but if we really want to honor them do it by writing to your represenatives to pass laws that help mental health professionals and families deal effectively with loved ones needing care.
Remember several school children were attacked not with a gun but a knife in China. finally let me end with this disclosure. I do not own a gun nor do i have the motivation to want one. However, I do believe strongly that the
2nd Amendment has as much relevance today as it did when it was originally passed. finally to those who believe that the orginators had flint locks and could not imagine today's weapons must remember that in today's world flint locks woud be ineffective. Ergo to suggest that semi-automatic don't fit the 2nd amendment must remeber we are looking at today's world not 1776.
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