Why your opinion about gun laws doesn't matter

Oh my God, she went there! I did, and there's nothing you can do about it. Everyone has been spouting off about guns, violence, gun laws, and what they believe the government should do about it. Guess what? It's not up to you. Another thing I'd like to bring out is while it is certainly lovely of you to care so much about the plight of strangers and their suffering horrific losses at the hands of people who are clearly psychotic, some of you take it way too goddamn far. As a parent, I can easily empathize with the moms and dads who lost young children in the Sandy Hook massacre. When I heard about it, I felt a momentary pain in my own heart, simply imagining what those parents must be feeling. I am not without emotion, believe me. My own child is my world, and I'd rather die than have anything happen to her. But, unlike some of you, I did not curl up into a little ball and cry my eyes out or post incessantly on Facebook about it as though I could come up with something newer and more different than we had already heard on the news umpteen times that day.

What I also did not do, was become a laptop attorney. My eyes were flooded with all sorts of political bullshit from people who don't understand the law and who, although, not directly affected by any firearm related tragedy, were emphatic about how things needed to change NOW and we had to remove all weapons from everyone but the police and military. Damn! While a ban on assault weapons makes perfect sense because the last time I checked, we ALL didn't have the balls to join the military and get shipped off to battle. However, to insist that we now do psychological testing, tack on additional wait time before actually picking up a purchased gun, and possibly just going bat shit crazy and convince people to get rid of the guns they already own is pushing the goddamn envelope.  Oh that's right, we did that last part recently, didn't we? We even offered cash incentives to get guns out of the hands of the potentially dangerous. What a concept! Now they have cash on hand to buy bigger and better weaponry.

Completely beyond my understanding is the theory that if someone who has the potential to be violent doesn't own a gun, they will somehow no longer be violent. How does that work exactly? If you take a psycho's gun away, they suddenly become passive and placid? By extension of that, if you take a firearm away from a rapist who always attacks at gunpoint, he can't commit rape again? A thief won't be able to rob someone without holding a .45? Is that all it takes? Remove the weapon and restore peace on Earth. Do you honestly think it's that simple? I honestly think YOU are simple. Access to one type of weapon doesn't create a criminal. The criminal mind is what it is and it is clever and resourceful. Remove one method and it will seek out a newer, possibly better one. You've done nothing positive when you take guns away. Actually, you may have enhanced their methodology by forcing them to be more creative. Nice work, fucktard.

Let me ask you this, do you think that a domestic abuser NEEDS a weapon to be abusive? I can assure you beyond the shadow of a doubt, they do not. In reality, anything in their hands can become a weapon...a hardcover book, a bottle of beer, a chair, a Zippo lighter, a shoe, or even a picture frame. In the absence of these fun items, they easily rely on their very own hands and can do all kinds of permanent damage with them. Getting pushed down a flight of stairs after sustaining a beating could be a death sentence should you fall head first and break your neck. Didn't consider that? Didn't think so. The reality is, violent people are who they are in the presence of and in the absence of guns. If they have no access to guns, they are still violent and have the potential to harm and kill.

Then, of course, you all went apeshit about mental health issues and becoming more focused on them. Absolutely!  I don't disagree with you one bit. Let's start looking in our own backyards, to start. Many parents out there wear gigantic rose-colored glasses when it comes to their children. Living in complete denial that anything may be awry with their little angel, they ignore any warnings or requests to have them tested...and that's just for things like autism and dyslexia. Could you imagine if they were asked to look into the possibility of bipolar disorder or oppositional defiant disorder? They'd run for the hills and never look back, transferring their little head case from school to school avoiding the truth at all costs. What we need is universal acceptance that mental health needs as much attention as physical health, and remove the stigma that is attached to psychological disorders. Are you able to remove the word crazy from your vocabulary? Yeah, I didn't think so.

Before you publicly express an opinion about a topic, do your research, think it through, and then wait. Knee-jerk reactions to incendiary news stories only serve to announce your rampant stupidity.  Spewing ignorant and judgmental nonsense, blaming the government, society, and Jesus for the tragedies that occur in our world make you sound like uneducated white trash. You may be the smartest bumpkin on your dirt road, but the rest of us use our book learnin' to form rational and informed opinions on all sorts of topics. This is why I know (at the risk of sounding like an NRA ad) that guns do NOT kill people, people kill people. I've lived with guns my whole life and have never once seen one jump up and fire itself at someone. I'd also ask you to refrain from wallowing in vicarious self-pity, behaving like you've lost a loved one every time someone makes the 6 o'clock news because they've been shot to death. Until you've experienced that pain for real, you have no fucking idea, don't bother pretending to empathize. Are you friggin kidding me right now???