Michael Latz/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images2008:
July 27 -- One person was killed and eight others were wounded as a man opened fire inside a church with a shotgun in the city of Knoxville, Tennessee.
Aug. 1 -- A gunman took the lives of three teenagers and injured another near Menominee River in northern Wisconsin.
Aug. 13 -- A man forced his way into the Arkansas Democratic headquarters and fatally shot state party chairman Bill Gwatney.
Sept. 2 -- Six people were shot dead and two were wounded in a series of shooting incidents in Washington State.
Oct. 16 -- One high-school student was killed and three were seriously injured when a gunman shot at them near their school in Detroit, Michigan.
Oct. 26 -- Two people were killed and one was injured in a shooting incident at the University of Central Arkansas.
Nov. 23 -- A teenager shot dead a young man in a shopping mall in suburban Seattle. One person was also seriously injured.
Dec. 14 -- A man dressed in a Santa Claus costume barged into a Christmas Eve party in Covina, a Los Angeles suburb, and opened fire, killing at least eight people before taking his own life.
2009:
Jan. 24 -- Two people were killed and seven others wounded in a gun-shooting spree by unidentified assailants in a house in Wichita, Kansas.
On the same day, two teenagers died and seven others were injured when a gunman opened fire at a group of students outside a nightspot in Portland, Oregon.
Feb. 24 -- At least seven people were injured in a gun-shooting incident at the New Orleans' Mardi Gras festival.
Source Lu Yanan, Xinhua News, Beijing
That already is quite a list of deadly shootings, and that was before this week began. And what a week it's been:
On Sunday, some asshole showed up at a church in Maryville, Illinois with a .45 and a couple dozen rounds, shot the pastor in the face, and then proceeded to stab the people trying to disarm him.
Yesterday (the tenth,) another jerkoff blew away his mother, and then his dog for Christ sake, lit them on FIRE, and then continued to his Uncle's house where he left enough casings and bodies to be considered comparable to a drive-by in Compton. His next targets included his grandmother, GRANDMOTHER, and three random victims: a pedestrian, a woman in a gas station, and someone driving on the highway. One of his own .38 rounds relieved the police of their duty to blow his head off (I'm assuming it was a .38, because generally speaking, suicide by shotgun is difficult since the trigger is so far away.)
Now I wake up this morning to a cup of coffee and a school shooting near Stuttgart. This time, some 17 year old cockchoke thought it would be a fuckin' blast to play dress up like R6 and blow away some teenage girls at his former school. He walked into the classroom and hit a number of children in the head with surgical precision, dropping them before they even dropped their pencils. Real swift, I hope you had fun when the Polizei filled you with more 9mm rounds than there are holes in the evidence of Saddam's WMDs.
This unfortunate series of events has led me to one question: WHAT THE FUCK?
This planet, United States in particular, is filled, crammed TO THE BRIM with hundreds of thousands of immoral, insecure momma's boys that are deluded with maniacal ideas because of their unhealthy obsessions with COD4. These antisocial creatures breed on hate and their own self-pity, until they "snap" (I think it's more of a "coming out of the closet,") and start spraying bullets like a pack of trigger-happy Hajis in al-Anbar (pardon the racial slur, I am not anti-Islam, just very pissed off.)
That out of the way, I reveal my intention for writing this. The hardcore leftists are bleeding out of the woodwork now like worms after a rainstorm, ranting and raving on their blogs that people should not be allowed to own guns. Their likely story would be that gun control is the root of all these shootings, and that videogames are evil. What? In my opinion that's as likely a story as suggesting that the Bush administration is in no way responsible for the total massacre of the international economy. I need say no more than "Second Amendment," but of course I will.
By default I am independent philosophically and politically, but as a headnote it should be known that gun control is one thing I'm very, very Conservative about. I hate how these people go on and on about banning all weapons permanently, and how it's all the gun manufacturers' fault and whatever. Here's why: they refuse to take responsibility for anything. Some of those people who sit on their damned iMacs drinking Starbucks and Snapple while blowing politics out their ass on their blogs are themselves the problem. And what is that, you ask? PARENTS. I hold parents responsible. As you may know, I am generally disgusted with modern youth and parents, these snobby, yuppie by-products that have mouths bigger than their brains. That is perhaps generalizing a bit too much, but it's true--all of these shooters were under the age of 40, the overwhelming majority were under 30, and some under even 20 years old. They are still under influence of things they learned--or did not learn--from their parents.
This leads me to the videogame point--parents blame videogames for all of these horrible instances. If I may retort: one, you're wrong, and I will explain why, and two, if videogames are the root of all evil in the world, then why the hell do you continue to feed cash into the filthy Rockstar machine so that your little Johnny can let his creativity run free (by which I am referring to rape, torture, and murder) and hack off heads in the comfort of your living room? Hypocrite. Anyway, if you do need an example of a case where videogames do not corrupt the mind, you can look straight at me, or the other 99.9999bar% kids that don't decide on school shootings as their favorite extracurricular activity. You must admit that you are only using videogames as a shield to cover up your poor parenting abilities that are the reason for Johnny's antisocial behavior. In nature vs. nurture, you ARE the nurture, and that plays an immense role in the development of the person.
Back to the "legality of guns" issue. Of course I don't think bazookas should be legal, or even fully automatic weapons, since the only intent of autos is to kill a large number of people or completely annihilate a paper target. But rifles, shotguns, and handguns? Firearms are as important to the American creed as the stars and stripes or saturated fat-laden cheesecake. Here's why outlawing them would be ridiculous. Marijuana is illegal. Do you (especially you college students,) know anyone that smokes Mary Jane? Okay, now apply that to guns. Whoever wants guns, for whatever purpose, will get them, illegal or not. In fact, the ones who get them illegally would be those more likely to carry out horrendous murders such as those committed on a (now) regular basis. Outlawing anything practical deprives it from the law-abiding citizens and limits it to those who break the law anyway. This is one of many items on a long list of reasons why firearms are still legal in this country.
In order to correct any extreme or baseless points, I will acknowledge the flaws in my argument. Not all of these shooters are to be put entirely at fault. Some of them are schizophrenic, or have other mental disorders which are valid reasons to say that they did not possess normal judgement. Not all of them grew up in an environment with poor parenting. However, when it comes to the point of mass-murder, I take this issue very seriously and permanently stick it to their records.
Also, there are many, many flaws in our gun laws that are full of red tape and ridiculous, LUDICROUS rules and exceptions that allow the wrong people to get the wrong thing. The government and gun lobbyists deserve some "credit" for these deaths, and I hold them partially accountable.
That being said, I'm going to go get a shotgun, and also a sidearm thanks to a giant gaping loophole in the California gun codes, and go refine my marksmanship at the RANGE (as opposed to at a school or shopping mall.) That way, when one of these chicken fucks approaches me on the street dressed in their best Sunday BDUs, I can disassemble their head onto the sidewalk before they kill someone whose life has some worth, like the 58 people lost to these pricks in the last 8 months.
And rest in peace.
Current Mood: Agitated
Listening To: "Sonne" by Rammstein
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