Yes it's true that people kill people (gun owners justification: guns don't kill people, people do), but guns make it a heck of a lot easier to accomplish.
Guns have been a part of the American culture from the very beginning. They played a large part in the founding of the country, i. e. during the Revolutionary War, and have been an intricate part of American life ever since.
And I believe they were a necessary tool in the birth of this nation, and they are still necessary today, but in a much more limited sense.
Guns are too easy to get, and too many people have access to them. As long as that continues to be true, there will always be bloody massacres like what took place this early morning in Aurora, Colorado. The shooter was on no one's radar. From what I heard on the news, his only criminal violation before today was a traffic ticket. And yet, he walked into a movie theater and shot and killed at least 12 people, and wounded at least 38 others, including women and children.
These type of mass shootings have actually become a part of our culture, it would seem. And that, my friends, is a sorrowful and horrifying fact.
I don't believe there are more than a small percentage of people who have the maturity to handle firearms with the necessary responsibility, and level headedness. I'm not sure I can believe there's enough intelligence or maturity in the entire human race, for people to be allowed to have weapons of any kind. We really haven't evolved much beyond our kin, the monkeys.
So mourn the deaths and injuries in Aurora. And pray we can learn how to stop it from happening again.
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