But over the last few years since I've left, two tragedies have befallen the state. I'm not taking any credit for that, but I'd like to point out that since moving here, this area has been missed by every major storm that has pounded us lately, including a tornado that skipped over my house. A former girlfriend nicknamed me "Golden Boy," because on occasion I have tremendous luck. It never pans out into winning the lottery of anything, but I may get some money for something I wasn't expecting or have an unbeatable streak playing any game I try for a day beyond the realm of chance. Just did that recently at a party where I literally won every game we played that day. But if I went to the casino and tried, I would walk away a very poor man. I never get rich from my luck but every now and then I do manage to squeak out something cool.
Anyway, in 2007, two recently paroled douchebags decided to rape, torture and murder a family they picked at random. And in 2012, Adam Lanza, who might as well as just hung a sign from around his neck that said "I'm a pyscho," decided that shooting innocent children was the best way to get the express route down to hell. These were the two worst tragedies in CT history. And all the gun laws short of not having any, would not have made a difference in either case.
Adam Lanza is the easiest one to debunk as Lanza not only didn't buy any of the guns, his first victim, his mother, was to blame for him having access to them in the first place. And for all you Sandy Hook "truthers" out there please, go away and don't come back and take the fucking Boston Bombers truthers with you. These were not false flag attacks. They weren't CGI'd. Anyone with an ounce of common sense could see that.
But with Lanza came a mountain of new gun laws, some of which, like from that demon Dianne Feinstein, would have outlawed most guns. Here in MA a new law is being debated that contains some things I agree with like background checks and new felony statutes. It loses me with the machine gun ban, a seven round limit and the disposal of all guns that have more than ten bullets. Fuck you very much on that.
I know my audience is very liberal as I tend to lean that way on many issues. But gun control is not one of them and it might be that I have lots of friends who own guns and every single one of them is responsible with them. I know that doesn't apply to everyone, but you can't limit something because a few people abuse it. If it was rampant that would be another story, but most gun owners are fine owning weapons and the stats prove it.
Dr. William Petit I am sure thinks different. His two children, KK and Hayley, along with his wife Jen, were raped and murdered by two ex cons recently paroled. What started as a home robbery escalated to something shockingly worse. Cheshire is a small town, in Anywhere, America. It's not a crime riddled neighborhood but a small community filled with schools and middle class people. No one was expecting this. The two fuckwads who did this were Steven Hayes, 44, and Joshua Komisarjevsky, 27, ex-cons who somehow fueled each other to do this. Neither had violent records. Both were jailed previously for burglary. But this time something changed and they did unspeakable things to two underage girls and their mother. The only survivor was the father who somehow escaped after being beaten over the head repeatedly. The victims may have been burned alive (the youngest daughter definitely was) and all three were raped and photographed. Both received the death penalty but as that has been repealed in CT, they will most likely spend the rest of the time behind bars, in solitary. That almost seems worse. Good.
The point is these two losers didn't use a gun. They didn't need one. But what would have been the outcome if Petit had a gun? His family may still be alive. At least I heard he was recently married and is having a new child. That kid will be spoiled more than child ever. I wish them all the best.
We have an out of control, militarized police force that is kicking in doors and shooting innocent people every day. This should be the rule for all gun laws: whatever the police have, the public gets access to as well. Yes the military can still crush us but I fear them a whole lot less than Barney Fife with a 50 caliber machine gun.
Gun laws would not have stopped either tragedy. As a matter of fact, if guns were more available, neither of these tragedies may have played out that way. And before I hear from someone who says it would be like the Wild West I would like to point out you are eight times more likely to be shot by the cops than by a citizen with a gun. The reason is people with guns respect them a lot more than the police do. We need to arm ourselves better as the militarized police force is killing us more and more every day. And unless we have the weaponry to prevent it, we may all wind up in some ghetto being marched toward an oven.
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