I am not trying to trivialize the tragedy of this horrible situation, but it didn't take long for the extreme left wing to "not let this tragedy go to waste" and to start caterwauling for more gun control:
Wednesday on MSNBC's "Ana Cabrera Reports," Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) said there needs to be a national ban on "assault weapons" when reacting to a Catholic school shooting in Minnesota. | Clips
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But the thing is,
even if they had already confiscated every last firearm in the country, would it have made a difference?
No.
Because the problem is not access to guns. Timothy McVeigh killed 168 people with fertilizer and fuel oil. The 9/11 jihadists killed 2,996 people with airplanes. In New York City, 87 people were killed by arson when a guy set a building on fire with $1.00 worth of gasoline. In Japan, terrorists killed 13 people with sarin gas released into the subways. In China, a mass stabbing attack with knives left 33 people dead and 143 more injured. 84 people were killed in Nice, France, when a guy ran over a crowd pf people with a truck.
The choice of weapon is irrelevant, because it's not the problem. The problem is that we have no standards of moral restraint left in this country any more. 60 years ago, people had guns, too, but nobody went out and shot up schools and churches. Now why was that?
Because 60 years ago, we still had a standard of Judeo-Christian morality in America. The Left removed that, and along with it, the fear of eternal consequences. There is no fear of eternal punishment after death in our culture. People grow up with no knowledge of God, and what little they do know, they mock. They think that after you die, it's oblivion. So, they have no qualms about doing things like this, because they have no concept of consequences. In the past, when we still had a Judeo-Christian moral structure in our society, people were dissuaded from doing horrific acts like this out of a dread of everlasting hellfire. But they no longer believe in hell; or in a devil; or even in the existence of evil. And until our culture reverses
that trend, stuff like this will continue. It's a cultural and ethical problem, not a weapon problem. Blaming guns for school shootings is like blaming forks for obesity.
And then, there is also the aspect that at least five of the mass shooters over the last ten years or so (including the Minneapolis shooter) were transgender....and an even larger number of them had some kind of mental aberration or condition, or had a history of being bullied, or were reclusive in some way, existing on the fringes of society. Again: 60 years ago, most of those people would have been in institutions, off the streets, and receiving some sort of care. But from the early 1960s up to the present time, facilities that would have treated people like this have been shut down: resident occupants of psychiatric institutions have fallen by 93% since 1955. The "halfway houses" or "community-based treatment" ideas never developed, with the result that a lot of mentally ill people ended up on the streets, and newer patients that came along had no place to go, either. Some of those people became shooters.
The conclusion is that blaming the gun will not solve the problem, because the gun is not at the root of the problem. Spiritual nihilism, lack of a moral compass, mental illness, and societal problems like school bullying, domestic abuse, alcoholism, and drug abuse are.
www.abc.net.au
