Sharing something authored
by a dear friend and writer Matt Straight that expresses my mind rather tersely as well.
Only difference is that if I had articulated the same, which I wanted to do
several times, people would have given it a different tint and made a brutal jumble
of it.
“Sorry if I offend any of my American friends but I
feel compelled to have a rant, which I rarely do.
Yes it’s true that guns don’t kill people by
themselves, it’s idiots with guns that kill people. But unfortunately for
America, they seem to have a very high gun to idiot ratio.
When the “Right to bear arms” was written into the
constitution in 1791, it was also legal to take opium. Now that’s over two
hundred years ago. Things have changed a fair bit since then and the world is a
different place.
Fortunately, in 1914, the use of Opium for
recreational use was made illegal. It had become apparent that the ease of
availability and abuse of use was not good for society and overdoses causing
death were quite common. But then its not the drugs that kill people, it’s the
people that use drugs that kill people right? Just because two hundred years
ago “It was your right” doesn’t mean it is “right” for today.
Surely if you can’t reduce the number of idiots in
America, reducing the amount of guns and ease of availability would help reduce
overall incidences of mass shootings? Wake up and stop this madness.
Where did all this hate come from? Stop spending so
much time and resources on stopping terrorism and start focusing on stopping
your own people killing each other.”
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