We are getting a lot of terrorism and spree shootings lately. Minus the inept ISIS attack (ohhh, eight dead. That's a weekend in Chicago. All that does is piss us off.), Americans have been leading the way in mass killings these past few months. Muslim extremists are tame compared to what we do to ourselves, the latest an attack on a Texas church, killing 26 "innocent" people. I put that in quotes because, children aside, these people voted for the crap that just killed them. Again. They consistently put people into office that don't believe in climate change, then they drown, or refuse the most common sense gun laws, and then they get shot. As a matter of fact, had background checks been done in even the most rudimentary fashion, dumbass here never would have gotten a gun at all. But apparently he lied on the form, which begs the question: why bother at all with these stupid forms if lying on it gets you the gun anyway.
"Excuse me sir, you forgot to check the box about mental illness," the gun store owner says to the obviously escaped lunatic from the asylum. "No, huh? Okay, here's your gun." If there is NO background check to be had, just a form the idiot behind the desk glances at, these are worthless. The shooter had been kicked out of the military for domestic violence, the number one person who SHOULD NOT own a gun is this guy. But because these yahoos keep telling us no gun laws for any reason, there are 26 dead and many more wounded.
Trump is not wrong when he says this is a mental health issue. It is, but there is that whole background check thing too. We let our mental patients free roam in this country since JFK when it was decided that state run hospitals were awful places (which they were) and instead of fixing the problem, they just eliminated all the hospitals. Problem solved right? Sure, if throngs of crazies mixing with the rest of us is a great plan.
Now, while Trump and the GOP keep screaming about mental people and not guns, they conveniently leave out the fact they cut funding for mental services and killed bills that would have prevented things like this happening, such as letting mental people buy guns. Things like this will not only continue, they will get worse. Because the world is falling apart and many are falling through the cracks rather than get help, these kinds of shootings are going to accelerate. The next one may be innocent people, or even politicians. Rand Paul got the snot beat out of him the weekend by a neighbor. Why is still up in the air as to why he attacked him, but this is going to happen more and more as our elected officials bend toward Corporate America regardless of party. And when that happens, look out below.
The shooter here appears to be going after his ex-wife's family who frequented that church, something I speculated on last night. He was stopped by a civilian with a gun which in Texas is not surprising. That lessens the lefties who want a total gun ban, something that is less likley than aliens landing on the Earth and demanding to talk to Beyonce', who they have erroneously thought was our queen. I am not for banning guns. I am for keeping them out of the hands of people who shouldn't have them. I like the idea of background checks, a gun registry and mandatory safety classes. I am not even against banning bump stocks. But the idea that getting rid of guns will solve everything is delusional. It could make things worse. If someone really wants to kill a bunch of people, he will, only now, explosives would be more likely to be used. It happened in 1927 and is still the deadliest school massacre in US history. That psycho used dynamite to kill 38 kids. Imagine what one could do today.
The problem is we have a gun lobby too powerful to stop. We have morons, just like the ones in Texas, whose voting habits are literally killing them. Hundreds have died just this year because of the people they put into office. How many more have to die before they wake up and smell the coffee burning?
Climate change is real. Real background checks would have saved 26 lives here. Start believing what is real and turn off Fox News and Alex Jones. Jones is pushing the theory that the shooter is an ANTIFA guy, with NO PROOF whatsoever. Likewise, I have heard he was a recruit for ISIS, a religious Republican and even a vegan terrorist. I don't know what he is but chances are good none of these are true and the argument this is yet another case of domestic abuse gone bad is high. His ex in-laws went to church there, but not that day. They were the target along with possibly his ex-wife. He was described by people who knew him as "moody," "dark," and "mental." Just the kind of guy who should own a gun, right?
He should have been locked away for domestic abuse and yet nothing occurred. He should never been allowed to get a gun, but he did. Those people would be alive had we had real mental health in this country and background checks that should have stopped him. If all it takes is to lie on a form to get a gun, they don't work. Until we address these problems, both of them, a lot more people are going to die and this conversation will never end.
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