Thursday, January 17, 2013

CC#1: Too Many People Who Should Should Not Have Guns Do

In "Too Many People Who Should Should Not Have Guns Do" Leonard Pitts Jr liberates how history will always repeat itself until people realize the cause, guns.

Confirming the tragic killings in Newton Connecticut and our weeping griefs, Leonard reveals "Let us not pretend our sorrow in this moment means a damn thing or changes a damn thing, because it doesn't and won't. Not until or unless the American nation is finally willing to confront its unholy gun love." The tragedy in Connecticut is only but one of the many tragedies in America, yet all America has to offer for a resolution is grief. We say every tragic has changed America today, but how many tragic's does it take for us to really make a change?

Leonard brilliantly mentions "One sees Senator Joe Manchin, conservative Democrat from West Virginia and a staunch ally of the NRA, calling for gun control, and it is cause for hope.
Then one hears Senator Joe Lieberman suggest that video games may have played a role in the shooting. And Mike Huckabee says maybe it happened because the government no longer mandates prayer in schools. And Bob McDonnell, Virginia's Republican governor, suggests the teachers should have been armed (as if the problem is that there were too few guns in that school). And hope chokes." Ironic how people being shot is caused from less prayer in schools, from video games, and from less guns in schools rather than caused by people who should not have guns do.

Pitts even recognizes several other locations where the same cruel acts like in Newton have occurred. He continues to say "We have paid and continue to pay an obscene price for this lesson some of us obstinately refuse to learn. We paid it in Tucson, Ariz., and we paid it on the campus of Virginia Tech. We paid it at Columbine High and at a midnight showing of a Batman movie in Aurora, Colo. We've paid it in Compton, Calif., and Chicago, Washington, D.C., and Norcross, Ga., We've paid it in Gilbert, Ariz., Bechtelsville , Pa., Prince George's County, Md., Bay City, Texas, Copley, Ohio, Lauderdale Lakes and North Miami, Fla."

Disapproving with guns since ever, I strongly agree with Leonard. He accomplishes his exact thoughts and theory's for the use of gun control. Adding to his defense, war perhaps has played a huge part in all the shootings of America. Man has always killed other men for his country; if a soldier can kill another soldier, why can a man not kill another man? Humans have always killed, men can not give up their guns "and bullets keep raining down."

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