I totally agree with Bill Maher when he says, “Sorry but prayers and giving your kids hugs fix nothing; only having the balls to stand up to our insane selfish gun culture will.” I believe we are missing a major point here. There is a person who has a reason to fire shots at elementary school children including himself (I hope he was not hopping to get out of this alive) and there cannot be a more bloodcurdling thought than this. Do we really think that if gun laws were stricter and arms and ammunition were not easily accessible, this guy would have stopped. This person could have come up with some other way, and could have been even more horrifying than this.
Now imagine, such a motivated person spending his life for peace or science and technology or fighting for greater good. We have been ignoring the fact that discipline or the very lack of same is tearing this society apart. Few weeks back I was talking to my friends about Malala, who was shot only to raise her voice for better living environment and how some people would dare to put an innocent child down saying that their religion doesn’t permit that. Now most of these extremist are uneducated and motivated by something as little as a chicken dinner, but what about these well fed, well educated idiots?
There are policies being implemented at various levels to attempt to curb gun violence such as “gun buyback”. But these policies have proved significantly useless. We point fingers at the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution but this is only if we believe that fire arms can’t be obtained from illegal sources. But it all boils down to one thing, how we bring up our kids and what we teach them. And as far as I know there won’t be any amendment in the constitution for teaching your child to know better.
There are people living in torn up nations who live every moment in the fear of a bullet searching for a passage through their skulls, these people don’t have a choice, you do. Teach your kids to use crayons and not guns.
