Friday, December 07, 2007

What's with our love affair with guns?

Yeah, yeah, I know. Second Ammendment and all that. But read the thing, all right? It's all about having a militia. It's not about an individual having an AK-47 that their 19 year-old stepchild can steal and then shoot up a mall:

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Once again there has been a mass shooting in the United States, this time in a Nebraska shopping mall. Once again there is no national outcry for gun control.

A 19-year-old man shot and killed eight people and then himself in Omaha, Nebraska, on Wednesday with a semi-automatic AK-47 that police say he stole from
his stepfather.

Leading presidential candidates for the November 2008 U.S. election issued statements expressing sorrow and support for the victims. None called for tighter gun laws, which are traditionally left to state and local authorities.

The crime revived memories of a massacre in April at Virginia Tech university, where a student killed 32 people.

Why we make high powered weapons so easy to obtain is byond me.

1 comment:

  1. Anonymous7:01 AM

    I don't blame the guns nor their availability, particularly. I'd wonder what was wrong with the chap's (19 is barely a man!) upbringing as to want to commit the crimes of theft and homicide.

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