Our Voice
Parents across the country, as well as in Canada, are still mourning the premature death of their children. Between Sept. 13 and Oct. 3 there were four different school shootings. What is happening to civility?
The two that are the most disturbing are the shootings at Platte Canyon High School in Bailey, Colorado and West Nickel Mines Amish School in Paradise, Pennsylvania. In the first case the perpetrator sexually assaulted several hostages before killing one poor girl and shooting himself. Then, to top it all off, one of the man’s relatives received a 14 page letter saying how sorry he was for the things he was about to do. Obviously, the letter was written before the incident.
Does that justify his actions? Hell no. If anything it shows what a coward he is. In what demented mental state does someone have to be in to want to do something like that? It’s a shame that the police couldn’t get to the man before he killed himself. He would need to be put under the prison.
It was reported in The New York Times that the man who attacked the Amish community had the same intentions when he boarded himself in a single room schoolhouse with 10 girls and an extensive arsenal of weapons.
Amish children, for God’s sake. Is no one safe from the maniacs of the world? Those poor kids have never even seen a gun, and out of the blue, they are lined up, execution style and are staring down the barrel of one.
Will it come down to having maximum-security schools? That would be an excellent learning environment. The students can be transported in armored busses and consequently, there would be no car riders because no unauthorized personnel can be allowed on the campus.
Upon arriving to school the children will have to be X-rayed and searched by heavily armed guards. Once in the actual building, no one comes in, no one goes out until 3:30 p.m. Basically, the building will have to be on lock down.
That might be a reasonable preventative measure, or, we can stop selling guns to anyone who has a couple hundred dollars to throw away. America needs some sort of gun control, whether it is stricter background checks or not selling guns at all. And don’t pull that Second Amendment crap, it really only gives a militia the right to bear arms, and since we don’t have the need for a militia anymore then you don’t need the right to bear arms.
People think they have the right to do everything, but no one wants to responsibility can comes with those rights.
Why does someone need a gun? Why does someone need more than one gun? Why in God’s name does someone need to arm themselves to the teeth? To shoot school kids, apparently.
Here’s a piece of advice: If you harbor hate for anyone, please don’t buy a gun. If you already own a gun and you hate someone, please don’t take it out on innocent people.
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on Oct 6 2006. Filed under Opinion, Our Voice.
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