I guess what we need are more guns, not less, we need to ease up on violent video games and take a look at our care of mentally ill citizens. Okay, I can get behind taking a look at our mental health care system in this country and see how it could be improved, because although most people with mental health issues won't get access to guns and go on a shooting spree, they still need help. I am all for that dialogue being started, as long as they don't envision some kind of American Horror Story asylum scenario.
What I wish the NRA would have said, besides things that I know they will never say, is that as long as we live in a country that invades other countries and murders their citizens, that there is no reason to blame video games. Kids in this country get the message that it is okay to kill people and take over their property from an early age. As long as we have a military that murders innocent people, how can we even begin to blame kids for their violent tendencies coming to life? We send them the message that violence is the answer, you don't really need a reason for it, but first you have to put on some camouflage and then it's okay to kill random people. Not random people here, but other places, preferably where the people are darker skinned.
And this whole 2nd Amendment thing...it was designed to help citizens protect themselves from the government, our government, to fight tyranny. Unless I missed something, we aren't at war with the United States, so why does anyone need an assault rifle? I don't understand a lot of things, and this is one of them.
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