Yesterday I was quiet and remorseful, not my usual abrasive, combative self when it comes to gun issues. I felt that was what was needed for this tragedy, where a majority of the victims were children. They didn’t need someone to be angry and yelling on the Internet. What we needed was quiet reflection and prayer.
Not today, folks. Because let me tell you, I am pissed. Why, you ask? Well, here’s why: first, Mike Huckabee of FOX News said that the shooting in Newtown, Conneticut was the result of “systematically removing God” from the school system and that it wasn’t a surprise to him that the shooting occurred. First off Mr. Huckabee, authorities are now saying the shooter Adam Lanza probably suffered from a personality disorder. Personality disorders are the result of biology and genetics along with environmental, cultural, and social factors. Pointing to a lack of God in the public school system as the sole cause is counterproductive and just shows you’re trying to advance your evangelical/political point of view while using the death of children as a political tool. Unless you’re saying that God put the personality disorder in Lanza and/or told him to shoot up the school his mother worked at? Then you’re just evil, sir.
Also, there was a shooting at an Alabama hospital today. Let me repeat that: there was a shooting at an Alabama hospital today. Three people died. I know this’ll probably be eclipsed by the Newtown shooting, but I think the fact that three shootings in a week signals that we’re actually having problems and that guns play a large factor in it.
I mean, look at all the shootings that have happened in the United States this year alone:
- Canton, Ohio
- Aurora, Colorado
- The Sikh temple in Wisconsin
- The Empire State Building
- Texas A&M
- Chicago suburbs
- The Oregon Mall
- Newtown, Conneticut
- The Alabama Hospital
Are we starting to get the picture here? That’s nine shootings, one of them in my state! I had a friend who comes from Canton, she knew the victims! Are we still going to say that there’s no gun problem here in the USA? Are we going to say that no new legislation should be put forth? Are we going to say these are isolated incidents?
HELL NO!
And pardon my French, but I’m angry right now. So now, more than ever, we need to sit down and talk about this ongoing problem and fix what’s wrong with our nation without the usual political bull and NRA grandstanding! As much as you may hate to admit it, there’s something wrong with this nation, and it needs fixing.
So get to work Congress! Do something about this!
Rami Ungar The Writer 
The shooting happened because there is no state led prayer in school, my arse. What is prayer now some kind of bullet shield? Bad things don’t happen to people who pray? Nonsense. All studies have proven that prayer does nothing to offset the probabilities of pure chance. Besides, kids can still pray on their own in school and they can still read their Bible in school too. I hate the way Faux News lies about EVERYTHING.
I know! It’s a bunch of bull crap! Only real right-wingers and evangelicals watch that channel these days with any amount of seriousness, and I’m starting to think the amount of people who believe that sort of stuff is declining in the US do to the amount of vitriol associated with it.