I read an article in a news paper today that struck a nerve. The topic was about increased gun control needed in the midst of the shooting of the congress woman. The basic point of the writer was that we should have more stringent gun control to eliminate the legality of a citizen to buy or own semiautomatic firearms. Their stance was that there was no good “Reason” why someone would need a semiautomatic weapon so it should be illegal to buy or own one.

I know that gun control has been beat to death based on opinions and facts from both sides of the argument, so I am not going to get into that. The thing that I fail to understand is why people continually think that applying additional rules or laws to further restrict the choices of upstanding sane people is going to make a difference in what law breaking or insane people do. Law breaking or insane people only adhere to whatever THEY feel is right or wrong. They could give a crap about what others think.

The other thing that really grates on me is that most people blame the tool used in an incident verses the individuals choice to do bad things with whatever tool they used. “If Johnny didn’t have a gun he wouldn’t have gone crazy and killed that person”…..WHAT???!!! That makes no sense at all. Johnny is crazy and would have used a #2 pencil to stab someone to death if that was the only tool he had to use. If someone is hell bent on attacking or killing someone else the tool they use has very little to do with detouring their intended actions.

I just don’t understand how the vast majority of people in this world focus on the wrong thing. “Johnny” is the deadly weapon set loose on society, not what’s in his hands as he is committing his acts of terror.

The other thing that I don’t understand is that people are always surprised when the next nut case comes out of their hiding place and does something tragic. There will always be the next nut case as its statistically impossible to not have a certain percentage of humans in this world turn out to be nut cases. Nut cases will always be part of society so why don’t we focus on “Fixing” the nut cases verses creating more restrictive laws that apply to everyone?

Oh well, sorry about the rant. The ignorance of what is presented in modern media astounds me some times and I have to say something.