[TheForge] shooting

[James]

Amid all the clamor to restrict guns, I recall reading of the amendment 
to outlaw liquor...

All it did was send everything underground. It turned some into 
criminals, made others rich and powerful beyond the wildest imaginations 
and, in the case of gun ownership, takes away a very effective tool. 
When guns are outlawed, the winner is the government who will have one 
less impediment in the continual struggle in its mistaken attempts to 
gain more control and more power over the people it was originally 
designed to assist.

The second amendment exists to control the negative rights on 
government, not positive controls on people. It was put in place for 
that reason alone, and there was a revolutionary war to punctuate and 
prove the point.

Reporters have been quick to point out Connecticut has one of the 
strictest gun laws in the nation. What a horrendous example of how 
effective it is.

And that’s because this has nothing to do with guns other than it was 
the tool this man used to mete out his unimaginable punishment on two 
classrooms filled with young children.

It’s about some type of all-consuming rage that, thankfully, most of us 
are unable and unwilling to comprehend. It’s the type of horror I would 
imagine even gives psychiatrists nightmares. It’s the type of disease 
that would find any way to express itself, and this time happened to be 
guns.

It’s the same type of rage that seduced someone into putting poison into 
bottles of Tylenol, which eventually killed people at random. Perhaps 
even the same attitude that allows a country’s ruler to use chemical 
warfare on his own people.

None of it is about the chosen weapon of destruction. All of it is about 
the individual who took their rage out on those around them whether they 
were part of their problem or not.

If you think law enforcement has or will have the kind of tools 
necessary to have stopped something like this, you live in a fantasy 
world. I would recommend attending the next Police Department Citizens 
Police Academy to learn enough to at least discuss it in a cogent 
manner. Or just have a serious talk with your friendly neighborhood 
police chief.

So as the debate rages on, it might pay to calm down a little. Think and 
discuss the situation in a rational manner that doesn’t involve 
knee-jerk reactions or agendized politics. Neither one of which could 
possible have kept this tragedy from happening.