*Unfinished piece. Stupid short attention span*
Yesterday, 20 small children and 6 adults were killed because some unbelievable fucking asshole felt that the only way to make himself feel better/get his point across was to to end the lives of 26 other human beings who apparently had nothing to do with UFA's personal problems.
Now, in this country, there is virtually NOTHING that can possibly happen that won't start some pricks from injecting their political and/or religious beliefs into the situation. And some will even do immediately (like hours) after the event.
And Newton, Connecticut is no difference.
Initially, it was the gun control proponents that started getting in little jabs here and there. Although in all fairness, most were in the "we REALLY need to have a discussion about gun policy" camp, but the idea was basically the same: w3e need to ban some/most/all guns. This happens after every mass shooting in the United States, but usually doesn't really go anywhere. The major difference here was that most of the victims were kids around 5 and 6 years old. Now it's going to snowball.
I've already heard the yack about needing less guns and banning this and banning that and how we have more gun incidents that other places, blah blah, blah. I'm not going to go into a big statistical discussion because ultimately, when you compare social issues between countries, there really is no base to start from. Countries all have different foundations made up of different sizes and mixes of people that have differing concentrations of population and environmental surroundings. What works in Berlin doesn't necessarily worth in Beijing. Different people, different cultures, different histories, different attitudes, different philosophies, and different needs.
You can truthfully only talk about one country, i.e. one place subject to the same laws, because that's going to be the only place where differing opinions are remotely valid. I don't care what Mexico or Norway thinks or how they do things.
So, really, you can only talk about how Americans do things. But there's a huge catch there: see, the US is fairly unique in that due to its history as a "melting pot", the country itself is almost like its own little planet due to the extremes of population types. Californians have little in common with folks from Montana. Florida people have different needs and beliefs than people from Michigan. And this is the major problem when talking about any sort of law at a Federal level, which is what is meant when "gun control" is brought up.
Now, let me be very clear. I am conflicted in regards to gun control. On the one hand, the Libertarian in me wants the Feds to stay out of people's lives. On the other hand, I can see no reason why any private citizen, at this particular time, has a need to own an Uzi or AK-47.
