I still struggle to come to terms with the mentality of gun culture. Shootings in the states are common yet Americans generally love the fact that their constitution protects their right to own guns. This latest shooting in Germany did come as a shock but still, not entirely unusual.
What is it about people who argue the old saying "guns don't kill people, people kill people"?
We as a species are fearful, irrational, vengeful, violent, unstable and bias in many a different way. Nothing is going to stop that. Even the most 'normal' law abiding citizen will get divorced, dumped, fired, bullied or have other issues that might even only for a few hours cause him or her to become irrational or violent. Normally the person can calm down and just get on with it but if that person, at the height of their madness reaches for a gun. Too late.
And yet we always hear about "what made them do it?" "I don't understand why he killed all these people!" "he was so normal"
I know why they do it, they are human and humans are animals plain and simple.
There have been time in my own life when if I had A gun available, I probably would have used it. But I didn't, because the passage of time allows for a cooler head to prevail.
So instead of trying to "fix" people who commit these terrible crimes, why don't we just take away the tools with which the crimes cause such damage?
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