The Guns of the Oregon Shooter were Purchased Legally

According to the ATF (bureau of alcohol, tobacco, and fire arms), the weapons used by the Oregon shooter were all legally obtained. On what planet is it legal to buy and stockpile automatic weapons, handguns, assault weapons? Yup, here is the USA. I think this is insane. I am bored and astonished that with our deference to the NRA (national rifle association) we think that having a law that checks the background of people making personal arsenals with even touch the problem of gun violence in this country. It can't possibly.

And the hand wringing about mental health issues! Of course I think we should do a much better job of helping our citizens with mental health issues, and addiction issues, and abuse issues. No one could believe it more than I. At best we criminalize ill people, at worst we leave them to die of hunger and cold and starvation. But at the same time we glorify violence. We treat the assassins who murdered Bin Lauden and his family as national heroes. It looks pretty cowardly to me to shoot unarmed people in cold blood. We pay huge salaries to mercenary soldiers who torture others because we think they might be our enemies. We have people (who must have mental health issues) using drones to drop bombs in lands they can't even name or find on maps. We love violence. We call our dead army guys heroes even if they died killing unarmed children in a country where they don't even speak the language. Some of our most profitable companies are arms manufacturers and often they own our media outlets. GE.. too many examples to list. We don't call them mentally ill although they buy and sell weapons and weapons of mass destruction.

"Is the NRA the ultimate protection mafia for the military mercenaries and the arms manufacturers? Has our foreign policy come home to us in a sick way? Are our school shootings really any different from us dropping bombs from drones anywhere in the world we wish? Much of our prosperity comes from making weapons. I am sick from this. We didn't even sign the land mine treaty when so many other countries did. Why? We make them. I have to accept the fact that this is who we are. We are the largest arms manufacturer on the planet and we sell to anyone. And we don't want to stop it at home or around the world. This is clear".

We can't manage to agree on background checks! How will we ever come together  to do what country after country does and rid the citizens of deadly weapons. We are a sick joke on the world stage for our belief that overwhelming force at home and abroad is the path to peace. Peace is the path to peace.