Sadly, any new firearms legislation will not have any effect on the existing illegal firearms possessed with evil intent in America.
Gangbangers, potential murderers, sociopaths, and other undesirables will not simply relinquish their arms at the signing of a new law. Those who wish to do evil in possession of any weapon will simply find another means of acquiring it, or another weapon.
In this latest tragedy, its very obvious that should he the attacker chose to have done so, he could have carried an explosive device into the theater capable of just as much destruction as he wrought with small arms. The only reason he did not is that he himself wanted to inflict each wound, end each life....and he had some sort of theory that he could escape that situation with his own life. Very sad, but very true.
This is not a standard legal weapons owner. This is a violent sociopath.
In truth, if you wanted to make a law that would prevent this tragedy, as well as another one in nearby Columbine....all you would need to do is outlaw social deviant and castigated 14-30 year old males who were failures in academic environments.
Hows that for some targeted legislation ? Not real fun is it..............but its true.
Its not the victims' fault.
Its not the weapons fault.
Its not the theaters fault.
Its not your fault.
Its not societies fault.
Its not my fault.
The fault rests solely in the lap of that "tie-died orange haired" freak.....no one else.
Society has a habit of producing violent aberrations in even the most peaceful and harmless of environments.
We are, by nature, a predatory and violent species. One that is frequently shortsighted and self serving at the most basic primitive level. When we feel that.... that ability to sustain ourselves in this society no longer exists, that primal creature takes over- no longer salved by the constraints of a polite society to which we no longer have the ability nor desire to connect with.
This too, is sad, but true.
No amount of litigation or restriction will prevent such aberrations, nor quash their ability to inflict their wounds of self perceived vitriolic justice on the society that has wronged them.
Its almost as if its a genetic glitch.
KILL KILL KILL
We have a motto, humanity.
Death is its banner- and it always has been......always will be.
The ability to take life , and the lives of others, into our hands as a responsibility or debt as individuals is both a very constructive and powerful force at the core of humanity.
It has both a light, and dark, side.
Even the mightiest of human spirits can be reduced to our primitive selves by failure, and use the abilities within and without us to lash out .......
But in the end, those failures are our own. Not that of our brothers.
They may be effect, and direct cause. Action however, rests solely in the hands of the individual.
That is something that no law, no test, no background check, nor assay will ever be able to detect- the will of the individual.
