I am sick to death of the way gun toting Americans say that it's not the guns that kill, it's the people who kill. If it wasn't so damned easy for people to get possession of a gun there wouldn't be so many senseless murders in this country.
The latest killing of 6 innocent people in Arizona was committed by a seriously unstable young man who, for whatever reason, was able to obtain a gun and then walk into a Walmart to buy the bullets. This is insanity for anyone to so easily be able to purchase an object capable of mass murder.
As usual, I wonder where this young man's parents were (he's 21 years old and just been kicked out of a college because of his bizarre behaviour). Were they watching him carefully and taking care that any weapons they had in their home couldn't be taken by him? Were they seeing that he had medical treatment? Did anyone related to him care enough to take care of him?
If this disturbed young man had not been able to get hold of a gun, he might have carried out his vendetta with a knife. Someone might have gotten hurt but 6 people would not have lost their lives.
People with guns can and do hurt too many people. When will the United States do more to limit the number of guns on the streets? How many more atrocities will occur before someone in power comes to their senses and bucks the NRA?
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