Guns are bad again. It's the NRA's fault that some pitiful broken guy killed many people. Both sides should get off the fear bandwagon. It's EVERYONE'S fault. This society is the killer here. Each of us does a little bit of killing when we fail to squeeze out the tiniest jiggling crap about someone else in our society.
Society, it's kind of an amorphous word isn't it? Our brains don't wanna wrap around the notion that we all share some common bond. We find it easier to fear guns or not having guns and point fingers and speak from our soapboxes for self-gratification and complicate matters until the whole thing devolves into another contest of who is right. Stop the competition, step back and look at what we can do together, as a society, to keep this sort of thing from happening. We don't need to ban guns. Without them, someone driven past the breaking point will just find something else lethal. What we need to do is harder than enacting legislature. We need to find a worthwhile place for everyone.
Stop gouging others to enhance your personal power, prestige and wealth or sitting idly by while others do so. Playing life as a game where you must destroy your competition creates, bit by bit, a "bullet" that will eventually be directed at someone. Try to help those around you. And this does not mean imposing your religion or way of life on them. Doing that turns your opinion into a prestige mindgame. It means try and make sure they have the basics: not just food and shelter, but respect. Showing respect for others increases their feeling of self-worth. If you feel like you're worth something, you are less likely to throw that something away in a blaze of violence.
Were it not for the people we care about, who care about us, horrors like mass murder would be commonplace.
