Gun Control

I don't post on here very often, but every now and then I just need somewhere to vent. I have spoken on this topic once before about 6-7 months ago, and here I go again, because its all over in the media.

First off, everyone in the world is in favor of gun control. It's such a generic term and its annoying to associate it with what going on by the current White House administration. Nobody thinks that a known criminal should have weapons. So "gun control" is taking weapons out of the hands of known criminals. Like I said everyone is in favor of that.

Yesterday, as I heard Barack Obama speaking about how we needed to protect the kids in Newtown, (which unfortunately is too late), and protect kids in other places, I took a deep look into what he was proposing. Lets assume that every single measure that he wants is passed. Let's assume there are universal background checks. Lets assume there is a limit of 10 bullets per clip. Let's assume that assault rifles are banned and that you cant have armor piercing ammo, and everything else Mr. Obama wants to do.

All these new laws are now in effect in my pretend world. Now, lets take Adam Lanza getting ready to shot up Sandy Hook in our new world with all the news laws put in place by Obama. Let's even assume that the AR-15 and the 30 ammo clips that he used were taken away from his mother by the government. Instead Adam has a simple .22 gun with 10 clips that hold 10 bullets each. Adam takes the weapon from his mothers gun safe, goes to the school, and shoots and kills 20 students in this pretend world.

NOT A SINGLE THING THAT OBAMA IS PROPOSING WOULD HAVE CHANGED WHAT HAPPENED THERE. EVEN IF HE WERE TO GET EVERY SINGLE PROPOSAL HE SUGGESTS.

Now it doesn't bother me so much that he wants to make it so you can only get a 10 ammo clip, or that you can't have the grip on the front of the AR. But none of these will change anything. It's been proven time and again that the 1994 ban on Assault Rifles made no difference on gun violence in this country.

Just stating some facts today. Please feel free to comment.

Update to my post about gun control

Today I am reading in the San Francisco Gate about how neither Romney nor Obama will address gun control. The author of the article state, "A reasonable country would have taken steps to curb these tragedies years ago. Strong federal gun-control laws wouldn't stop every murder in the United States, but they surely would make it far more difficult to have a world in which a 24-year-old easily can purchase assault-style rifles and shotguns and walk into a dark, crowded theater." http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/editorials/article/Tragedy-shows-need-for-gun-control-3723694.php

First off, you can't pass gun laws that will take away simple shotguns and pistols as used in this awful tragedy. Secondly, you should take a look into what an AR-15 is. Just because you call something an assault rifle, you automatically assume that its something very dangerous. It's a rifle that is fired semi-automatically. This means in order to shoot it you must pull the trigger each time you want it to fire. As opposed to a fully-automatic weapon, where you pull the trigger and the gun fires on its own as many times as it can until you let go of the trigger or it runs out of bullets.

These weapons are standard weapons in most peoples gun safe's. Trying to take away these guns would never work because so many people own them and would not allow the government to do this.

Remember the awful assailant also used a chemical weapon as well. Should we ban all plastics from being sold? Should we ban all chemicals from being sold? Where do you draw the line? Next time if someone goes on a rampage with a knife, should we ban knives? Are we going to take the steak knife out of your kitchen so that you don't use it?

Gun laws will not be changed, and should not be changed after this tragic event. What we need to discover is what caused this guy to go nuts, and how we can solve that problem in the future.

"The Dark Knight Rises" will endure a dark night.

Today, I read the sad news about a shooting in Colorado during the first showing of, "The Dark Knight Rises." Unfortunately for me, I am busy and will be seeing this movie sometime next week. But my inability to see the movie is nothing as to the pain that the families must be going through. I wish the best to those families that are affected by this incident.

My gripe today is somewhat of a serious one in nature. It's about gun control. Immediately after this awful event, I read about Mayor Bloomberg, of New York complaining that this wouldn't have occurred if Obama would do something about the gun problem. The gun is not what killed those people. It was the man behind the gun pulling the trigger. Making laws that make it more difficult for people to get guns would not have prevented this from happening.

Many people in America are Christian. I am sure that most Christian recognize that Jesus died on the cross. Is there a single Christian out there that blames crosses and says we should not allow people to buy crosses? No, in fact, for some strange reason, (one I don't understand) Christians have crosses on top of their churches, around their necks, etc.

Gun's don't kill people. Taking guns away from people will not stop people from killing. We need to find out what made this guy go crazy and kill people and try and help people behaviors.