The announcement that Vice President Joe Biden is heading a task force of officials from Justice, Homeland Security, Health and Human Services, and Education to prepare a response to the nation’s epidemic of mass killings hints at the scope of the problem: No single answer, even expanded gun controls, is going to prevent deranged individuals from attempting massacres.
But the Obama administration’s approach of combining measures from different departments seems by far the wisest course — especially compared to the inertia that usually comes after the grieving for victims has ended. To develop a comprehensive plan in short order, Biden’s task force should draw on proposals that are already in place:
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How about making the possesion of military grade weapons illegal. Remove the millions that are on the street and make the penalty for possesion a stiff one. Yeah, I know that's a pipe dream.
Almost a good editorial, but one major area to examine and to address is lacking. That is, the role of the Media in the promotion of and profit from violent movies, TV programming, and video games. Let's add this point to the discussion and then we can begin to move forward.
The central issue in the gun debate always seems to me to be misplaced. There are plenty of who hunt, who own guns, I own them, but we never think about owning an AR-15 or any other military type weapon. Why? Because those weapons are for killing people not game. As an old Nam vet I have no desire no gut feeling of machismo that requires more killing or the sense of killing. It is one of the things about myself that I dislike that I learned in Nam, I'm capable of it. I do not understand this infatuation, this idea of, "in danger, I can blow his brains out!" That's the purpose, the reason, the thinking. There will always be bad guys, always be danger, but there is something twisted about the need to say, "I have the weapon that can blow his brains out!" As if the object who's brains your blowing out has no meaning. We don't need assault weapons, M-79 grenade launchers to defend ourselves. Most folks and I was raised in the big city of Boston, most folks don't have to shoot anyone or walk around town with an AR-15. How about a little thinking and less emoting.
Studies have shown you're more likely to be shot with your own weapon or see someone in your household shot, rather than an intruder. The second amendment argument doesn't hold water either, unless you're interested in flintlocks. Limit guns. As for the guns already out there, limit ammo.
nothing is ever his fault
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Nothing is ever who's fault?
We as a people have made an unholy bargain. We accept a certain amount of carnage as the cost of our unrestricted freedom to keep our toys.
We close our ears and eyes to the daily roll call of victims from gun violence, and do nothing, some of us using the Second Amendment to the US Constitution as a smokescreen.
As these atrocities such as Newtown continue, they seem to get progressively worse, and sooner or later there will come a time when to cost is to high.
Maybe that time has come.
And this is not about the Second Amendment, which guarantees certain freedoms.
It is about the choices we make, with those freedoms.
It's time to get real with guns folks. Guns should be declared "potential weapons for mass murder" just as nuclear weapons are weapons of mass destruction. Private ownership of guns should be outlawed now! If anyone wants to target practice, buy a BB gun. Hunting? Forget it. Go to the local market to purchase beef and poultry. Militia? We have the National Guard. Wanna shoot? Join the Guard. Guns are toys for the serious user and are tools for mass murder for the mentally ill.
We could also declare people as "potential weapons for mass murder". You just never know when one of them will bash your brains out with frying pan. Should we add frying pans to the list? Maybe we could issue concealed carry permits for baseball bats to defend ourselves?