The Names change, but the story stays the same

The shootings in Virginia Tech university were the worst single massacre of its kind in US history, however its this fact alone the distinguishes it from the countless others that have occurred in the land of the free. Each time an event like this happens the debate about gun control is voiced, and you get the same idiotic statements "If the students in the university also had guns they could have defended themselves" and the classic NRA slogan "Guns Don’t kill people, People kill people". This kind of logic baffles me, yes I understand that there is always people out there (especially in a nation of 300 million) who are willing to commit this kind of act and yes he could have still killed people if he had a knife maybe not as many. Its the physical simplicity of using a gun, its the act of pulling the trigger which allows the killer to feel disconnected for the killed. The state of Virginia did recently introduce gun controls, limiting people to one ... a week. I feel this is a sector of American culture that the rest of the world simply doesn’t understand. Yes America has amazing differences between rich and poor, and yes its has a particular attachment to faith however all of these things are understandable, its obsession with the Gun, in spite of the countless deaths a year is not so easily comprehended. However despite the lost of 32 life’s many of which where young, the debate in America will follow the same lines as before. The security should have been better, the alert should have been quicker, the police acted to slowly , politicians and the media will blame everything but not the second amendment. "The right to bare arms" the problem is there, Americans believe it is a fundamental right to own a weapon designed to kill. For me it is not a right, it is a privilege. America is fixated with freedom, so much so that they will tolerate the events in Virginia, nothing will change, only the numbers and names of the dead. Where is there freedom, we should ask there parents (and the countless other victims) do they want to protect the supremacy of American constitution or do they want there son's and Daughters Back.


sorry this post is kinda lame, i edited it about a thousand times and just decided to go with what i wrote in the first place. also from the other side of the coin Canada has a higher number of guns ( per person) than America but does have the same problem , so maybe its to do with the American psyche and the importance place upon success