Enough is enough

I will and have to agree that the recent school shooting was a great tragedy and it never should have happened. Lives were taken that hadn’t even got started good yet and who knows, their might have been another Einstein in the making but society will never know now.

 It’s completely understandable for various people to be on the whole gun ban kick and want to do away with guns altogether but the truth to the matter is a gun didn’t take those young lives. It was another person and NOT the guns doing and yes I am pro-gun and own a few.

 People died that December day at a school and most were just children but the thing is, their young lives could have been taken in several gruesome and different ways such as by a bombing/explosion, fire, machete/axe or even by driving through the building in a vehicle. It seems to me that all the people demanding gun bans/control fail to see the other possible ways of comitting violent acts against others and the taking of lives.

 I read another diary before starting to write my own and the person made a statement about Timothy McVeigh wanting others to take up arms against the goverment. I replied to their posting that McVeigh didn’t shoot anyone in the Oklahoma tragedy but instead he blew the building up and killed numerous people with a simple bomb made from perfectly legal to purchase and possess fertilizer and fuel and I know from working with the same components in the mining industry exactly what kind of damage can be done.

 Why is it that the only time you hear about guns is when a senseless killing occurs??? On that same note, why don’t we hear about all the lives that were SAVED because of a gun??? Just because you might not like something doesn’t mean that you have the right to keep others from doing what they like. If you don’t like guns, don’t own one. If you don’t like smoking, don’t smoke. I might not like for certain people to breathe but that doesn’t give me the right to make them stop now does it???

 The coin has two sides meaning that their will always be people that like something and those that don’t. If you stop and actually think about it, if guns are done away with, crimes and murders will become more violent in nature. A baseball bat can kill you just as good as a gun can but the gun would be a quicker and less violent death. A ban on guns or more laws on them isn’t needed. We already have the laws but they just need to be enforced.

 One final thought. When something is done away with it is always replaced by something else in due time but the thing is the replacement might be far worse than the original.