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Comments by Alex Blaine...Alex Blaine

Fun With Guns
 

  • A 12 year old with a gun held his class hostage briefly thursday,
  • A jilted creep took a gun and shot four people in a church the same day.
  • In Monroeville PA, a couple was shot to death and then their home was set on fire to try and conceal the deed.
  • Every year dozens of people all over the country are killed by falling bullets...including Los Angeles, San Diego, Fresno, Tampa, Fort Wayne, Fort Worth, Houston, Denver, and Phoenix. 
Yeah, it's obvious as hell where I'm going with this.  If it's so obvious, why do we continue to shoot each other?  The answer is simple.  We just don't care.

Who cares if some guy on the bad side of town shoots his wife, or that some poor misguided kid would point a gun a a roomful of kids?  One of those kids could've been yours.  

The boy took his father's gun to school with the intention of being caught and sent to jail.  That way, he figured, he'd be able to see his mom.  She's in prison on drug charges.  It was obvious to everyone there that he didn't really want to hurt anyone.  But the possibility of a mini-Columbine was very real.

In Pasadena, 18 year old Esly Contreras was talking with her  mother and pastor about a man that had been stalking her for weeks, when Oscar Castillo burst into the church's office and opened fire,  wounding the four people before shooting himself in the head.  

Two of the victims are in critical condition.  

Guns are killing more than our children, our poor, and our drug addicted.  Guns are killing our humanity.  It's the ugly truth about America we try to ignore.  It's the disfunction that makes us seem much less than civilized to the rest of the world.  

Smith and Wesson, the premier American gun vampire has agreed to a few simple steps to "help alleviate the situation"...translation:  if we slap a triggerlock on every gun, and promise to explore new 'safegun' technology, we will be shielded from future prosecution.  

The lawyers ate it up.  The get to limit their client's liability, and get lots of hours to bill as well!  Life is good.  Unless you've been shot to death.  


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