Columbine, Virginia Tech, Sandy Hook, Ft. Hood, the Amish School Shooting, the Aurora Theater Shooting; Kurt Vonnegut's classic and satirical WWII novel Slaughterhouse Five seems to be increasing in number, as we encounter more and more stories about madmen taking guns into gun-free zones and unleashing a reign of bullets. Slaughterhouse Five is becoming Slaughterhouse Six, or Seven, or Eight, as the occasions and numbers continue to stack up.
But that's not the case everywhere. Take the recent Arapaho school shooting.
Student Claire Davis clung to life for a few days in the hospital before
expiring, yet as tragic as that is, what is even more tragic is how liberal
Democrats and leftist progressives are using this tragedy, and others like it,
to push through more gun laws. Hmm. Don't we already have restrictive gun laws? Why didn't they prevent the shooter, Carl Pierson, from entering that school?
I have
several thoughts about this whole thing.
First, are more gun laws really the answer, considering that the shooter
Carl Pierson broke the gun laws that already exist to carry his guns and Molotov
cocktails into the school? These
shooters plan, it seems to me, on emulating Klebold and Harris of Columbine High
School infamy in gun-free zones with bunches of innocent, defenseless
victims. Thanks liberals! But you might want to ask yourself one
question: Although it’s still tragic
that Claire Davis lost her life, if Columbine, Virginia Tech, Sandy Hook, Ft.
Hood, the Amish school shooting, and the Aurora theater shooting had so many victims, how come there was
only one this time? You won’t find the
answer in the official reports on most news channels, newspapers, or on
the main websites for news organizations, which mostly all state that the
shooter made his way to the library and took his own life with his gun,
prompting nearby guards to the library. I
had to find and corroborate the real story, which the Washington Post confirms,
that the shooter committed suicide only after an armed deputy cornered him in
the library. If you’re wondering why the
regular news media isn’t reporting that, ask yourself if they support more gun
laws or not. If word leaked out to their
regular viewers that this guy was stopped by another guy with a gun, well, that
doesn’t sit well with their usual politics.
Another
interesting piece of news from this story is how the gunman – or “gunchild”
actually - was supposedly liberal, just like the psycho in the Aurora theater
shooting, and how the parents of the victim forgave Pierson for killing their
beautiful daughter, saying he didn’t know what he was doing, and asking for
donations in Claire’s name for mental health and anti-bullying programs. Because, in a way, these “monsters” are
victims too. Here’s yet another case of
a killer and his victim forever linked because of his horrible crime, yet one
has to wonder, as the victim’s parents have indicated, if the killer is really
just another victim. It shows how
tragedy can come from anywhere, and now two families and a community are
suffering because, once again, nobody saw the warning signs, or acted on
them.
It’s just so sad all over again.
That's the fault of the system. How can a mentally retarded person own a gun and nobody did anything to confiscate the license and the gun? He killed that girl because he was ill. So he should never have allowed to buy the gun in the first place.
ReplyDeleteWhere did you get this information. I have not read anywhere that this guy was mentally retarded. For one thing, that term is not politically correct. For another thing, are you telling me that if he was mentally retarded, that we don't have any existing gun laws that prevent such people from owning guns? Third, as I understand it, he didn't own that gun. His mother did.
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