School Shooting

I am sick over this school shooting today. And it is early in the game, so the facts are fuzzy at best. But how many facts do we need to see that we have a terrible problem. It is just so sad that it is hard to focus.

Obama made a nice talk. He was genuinely moved. You could see that. But he also said it isn't the time to get worked up about gun control. Huh? I think it is the time. It is always the right time. Maybe this is just what they are saying now, but it looks like the mother of the killer legally owned two Glocks and a military automatic weapon and other killer equipment. She was a kindergarten teacher. Is that normal? Is that all right even if she didn't have a son who killed her and then killed all those others?

A man who went to jail for abusing a young friend, came after her after he got out of jail with a legal gun. Fortunately he didn't kill her, But, is that all right? He was hunting, just not for deer.

The pictures of the school after the kids were killed today showed tons of heavily armed men, everywhere. They had body armor, big fat heavy guns and they were escorting the kids out of the building. Wouldn't that traumatize any kid? The killer was dead and now these poor dear kids were surrounded by full war regalia big fat men. I think that is a weird way to follow a shooting trauma. How does a 5 year old know who is the good guy and who is the bad guy?

The logical answer it seems is that we need more armed squat (sic.) teams guarding the kids against armed intruders. More guns at the schools to guard against more guns. This does not do it for me. I thought that violent video games were bad for kids minds. But the real thing? how can a child come back from this?

Any idiot knows the correct answer. If people want to hunt Bambi, they could do it with rifles that let out one bullet at a time, require some skill to aim, some strength to carry and can't kill a room full of kids in a few minutes. I don't know when the 6 shooter was invented (sometime in the mid 1840s?) but it did allow the massacre of the Indians and the buffalo to take a great leap forward. Now all the marvelous new technology allows school shooters to be much more efficient.

This makes me so sad. It can't be anything resembling civilization. It is barbaric. Yes, by all means, share in the sadness, but by all means, bring back something resembling civilization. We need to be making good karma, not faster killing machines.

Rest in peace, children.