5th anniversary of the horrible incident.

On Frieday the 14th December 2012 was and will always be known as the darkeness  day in the history of the US.

I am going to put it out there streight away, I do not think killing someone would be fun. However, events like Sandy Hook haven't stopped happening, They've only become much more frequent. And nothing in US has changed for the better. Yes, I can imagine it's glorified in the films who blow people away with consummate ease, we even stimulate it ourselves in video games but I still can not think actually viscerally murdering someone would particulary be an enjoyable experience.

On frieday the 14th December 2012, a young man, already formally identified as Adam Lanza, got his hands on this mother's legally owned and registered firearms, shot his mother and heared to Sandy Hook Elementary School. He used a high powered rifle to murder twenty children between the age of six and seven and a further five adults before turning one of the guns on himself.

Since then the rethoric has been endless. Those who favour gun control have argued that surely this event, the last in a long line of similar massacres, should lead to increased legistlations, those who favour packing heat have given the usual barrage of excuses. They have claimed that they need their own wearpons for self defence, that they like to hunt ( and given the nature of some of the high calibre assualt rifles and various other semi automatic that are readily and freely available in the US I as a Japanese can not help but wonder what exactly they are hunting for?) that people who want to break the law still will. And on and on and on. Excuse after excuse after excuse.

Because that is all that they are. Excuses. Nobody needs to own a firearm. If people want to hunt then they should have to join registreted hunting clubs or comunities where all weaponery is checked out and returned to a centralized armourary. The self defence excuse doesnt rational because countries that have prohibited gun control have fewer or zero instances of gun crime and so the need to defend yourself against an assailant carrying a firearm is much deplated. There is no reason to be understood unless, your house is surroudning by ravening hordes of zombies, just wondering who or what exactly are Americans defending from?

The only excuse given thus far that carries even a modicum of credibility is the issue of mental illness. Now, In US, Not all perpetrators of gun crime suffer from a mental illness that seriously impairs their ability to judge and moderate their actions but some do and there are some serious issue with respect to the treatment and identificaton of mental illness to be raised from such incidents. However, to even attempt to make these incidents about mental illness is a horrible, isolating and debilitating thing to suffer from and it deserves its own forum, but, and this is easy acquisition of firearms that is the issue at play. Needless to say, people suffering mental illness that do not have access to firearms do go out and commit violence against both others and themselves, but the scope for destruction is radically decreased. Had Lanza walked into that school armed with any weapon other than firearms would 27 people be dead then? it is unlikely. Without access to firearms would men like Lanza even attempt these act, for the most part, I again, think not.

I do not know why the vast majority of Americans are so attached to their guns. As someone who grew up in a country with no gun available its not a mentality I understand. Maybe its fear? or maybe it makes them feel more important? or they are purely constitutional pedants? but the fact ofthe matter is that the current law acrros the US are sinply not fit for purpose and people are daying  as a result. And I will say this and I believe it wholeheartdly , those Americans who believe in loose gun control and the availability of automatic weapons are complicit in these acts. Every excuse that the pro gun contingent make is a spot of blood on their hands. Every person that cites their Second Amendment rights is in some small way culpable. You have placed far greater emphasis on the lives of your children and there is no condoning this.

I know that this rant will not acomplish anything other than giving me a chance to vent. I know that if you disagree with anything I have said, you either have not gotten this far in my blog or you will just read and stay quite.

One last thing before I finish, I recoginize how strong the American influence is. As a person periodically having to explain why US does certain things, I am disgusted that while many indivuduals think this issue matters, there are second ammendmenters who loudly scream any effort to prevent violence is an infringement on their rights. I am utterly disgusted that on the national level, protecting guns is more importatnt than protecting people. Many argue with the way I phrased it, but, from my point of viewm that is what this issue seems to be.

When laws were not passed after Sandy Hook, the US said that it was more importat to have guns, than to protect children. I am disgusted. this rant is long