This shit with the latest school shooting is pissing me off.
After everything spree shooting there's talk about gun control.
This time however the right is taking the moral high ground and claiming that's it's just wrong to bring it up so soon. While I can understand where they're coming from, I call bullshit.
If the perpetrator was brown these same people would be up in arms over border control.
So no. You don't get to play the moral high ground card here.
Absolutely agree that there is room for discussion. And you may not believe this, but military grade weapons have always been available. And an AR-15, for instance, the big villain here, is nothing more than a semi-automatic rifle that has been publicly marketed for well over one hundred years. You could take every AR-15 tomorrow, but you've done nothing. There are hundreds of military or civilian rifles or shotguns that are identical in characteristics, many far more powerful.
Now I'm not smart enough to know what really needs to change, but I know for sure that nothing the government can pass as far as legislation is much in the way of an answer. As I said, it's problem with society, and how we've evolved from the days of my youth until today. Is is violent TV and film, video games, social media, who knows, but somewhere along the line society has devalued life in general. The problem is, we can never go back, that's for certain ... but arguing that it's all one thing or another ... or one political viewpoint or another ... just further divides us, it does nothing to find a solution. That's a big part of the problem right there. We've divided ourselves into armed camps right and left, and there is no middle ground. That's a big thing that's changed over my lifetime ... people no longer listen to one another, it's their way or the highway. There no longer is compromise for the better good. Sorry I have nothing more of value ... but to me, it's society itself that needs to change.