My not so original thoughts…
This latest school shooting has really hit me hard. I don’t know if it is because of their age, or the time of the year it’s happening. It’s probably a combination of both. This is my third attempt to blog about it, and really, I don’t have much to say that hasn’t been said before, so I’m going to keep it short.
To the people that say now isn’t the time to talk about gun control, you are right. That time has passed long ago. How many more people are going to die before we do something? Everyday that goes by more people are dieing from gun deaths that could’ve been prevented. I’m not talking about a total ban, but some guns just shouldn’t be available to the public. There is just no reason for people to own automatic and semi-automatic guns. Would it really be the end of the world for gun owners to have to have some sort of training, and education on proper storage of their guns? I like my friend Mikey’s suggestion on treating owning guns like driving a car. Both are dangerous, so both should require proper training and education.
We need to invest more into mental health care. This is a harder topic in my opinion. People often don’t know that they need help, and people around people don’t realize they need help until often times it’s to late. It always seems obvious after the fact, but never is really that obvious.
It makes me sick to my stomach when people use tragedies like this to push their agendas. Forcing kids to pry to your god would in no way prevented this. Also, preying is not banded in school. Anybody can prey any time they want in school. Forcing everybody to prey to a certain god is not allowed. Religion is a private thing, because believe it or not, people have different believes.
I wish events like this would bring us together to sit down and rationally think it over to try and find solutions. Sadly it seems to divide our nation even more. I highly doubt anything will be done, and I can almost guarantee you there will be another school shooting this spring.
There, I got that off my chest.