The killing of 20 innocent little kids at
Sandy Hook Elementary School, Newton, Connecticut on Friday the 14th
December, 2012 is truly heinous. The US
has form for these type of massacres.
Some deranged bastard walks into a building and fires up innocent
people. Each time one such pointless
rampage happens, the issue of gun ownership gets another airing.
The second amendment of the US
Constitution states:
A well regulated Militia, being necessary
to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms,
shall not be infringed.
Americans seem to be paranoid about the
possibility of invasion and if they were required to surrender their right to
bear arms, then the population would be unable to defend if such a hostile
takeover were to take place.
On the other hand, they have a
fundamental belief they have the right to protect themselves, their loved ones
and their property from assault. There
is not much I can disagree with there.
Prime Minister, John Howard made sure
Australians were mightily disarmed after Martin Bryant went berserk at Port
Arthur in April of 1996. Most firearms
were probably handed in but heaps were not.
I well remember the PVC pipe and small trench caper. We know you cannot remove every single
firearm from the control of an individual.
It’s impossible.
Will disarming a nation solve the problem
of mass murders? No, it won’t. The murder gene in humans will simply
activate more creative methods. Bombs
and baseball bats work just as well.
Sickos have walked the streets of society
since we came out of the trees. They
will continue unabated. That’s the
price we must pay for civilization.
Forceful disarming of a population is not
the way to go. Guns are readily
available within communities and that will always be the case. It’s not the gun that goes on a rampage,
it’s the person behind the gun.
Meanwhile in quiet Tasmania, two people have died today as a result of a moron brandishing a gun. Somewhere, every day, this type of event is a news story.
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