The 100th Post (Last for 2012)

As this is my 100th blog post, I wanted to make it special, but instead I decided to weigh in on the current events that have happened in Newtown Connecticut.  This post is being duplicated to all my blogs as I feel it is that important given everything that has happened this year.

Certainly there are no words that can express my feelings for what happened in Newtown, Connecticut this month. What I can express words on is that this could have been avoided if only we had tighter gun control laws.

The bad thing is that it seems that everybody wants to blame “Mental Illness” as the cause of the events. Seriously, is this the excuse to be used on every violent incident now?

It has now even gotten worse as other things have been blamed for all the recent violence. Amongst them include:

• Movies – Let’s stop blaming movies for all the violence. After all, I don’t know of many cars that fly through the air and have weapons in their front grill. The blamers want to convince us that movies are the problem. This has been blamed for too many years and foolishly.
• Video games – I have heard this one ever since the 1990’s when games like Doom came out back them. Do killing monsters really make people want to kill people? I have didn’t buy it then and certainly don’t buy it now.
• Music – Poor Ke$ha. She is being blamed for her song of “Die Young” for being the inspiration for the recent violent acts. I have heard this song many times and I don’t think the blamers get it. Yes, this song gets me pumped only because I like it, but I certainly don’t feel violent because of it. Of course, I still get pumped up over Britney Spears “Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman”, but then again that’s just me.

What we should REALLY be blaming are the things that really count and amongst them are:

· NRA – One of the largest political action groups buys the people who make the decisions in Congress. They wave their second amendment rights around like they were the American flag. We need to get people in Congress who are not puppets of the NRA.

· Gun Resellers/Retailers – Many states don’t do background checks before they sell a weapon and sometimes they ignore the laws anyway. The laws vary from state to state which makes matter worse. I remember when I was working at Woolworth, the rules were that the gun application would have to be faxed to Augusta and then wait about 3 days to get a response. However, one time there was no response after 3 days so the salesclerk went ahead and sold the weapon anyway. It turned out that one NEVER should have been sold after the report came back as being a risky person. Nobody ever heard the end of that one. Resellers have to act more responsible and keep the laws in mind and abide by them.

· People like Norman Hamann – This nutcase needs to be in jail or a mental facility. He believes his own fears allow him to walk around with a gun in his belt. Sadly, I believe everyone else is scared of when he might crack and start using it. What bothers me even more is that he thinks that it is ok to film his encounters with the police. If anybody is mentally ill, Norman is the top of the class.

Sad to say there will be more gun violence if the real issues are not addressed. It does not matter what the President does or Vice President thinks he can do will matter. Mental illness is just a rubber stamp that I believe that everybody has if pushed far enough. Even I was once called mentally ill. I will have more to say about that in a future post.

The biggest question that has been asked lately is “Are we really safe anymore?”. My answer is “I don’t believe so and never will, just don’t scare the children with that information.”

For now the only things we should worry about is the fiscal cliff or even worse the Mayan’s prediction of the end of the world.

Notice to all:

I will not be posting to this blog until after the first of the year as I feel that both the reader and myself need a holiday vacation from everything that has been going on in the world lately. I plan on being back right after the first of the year with possibly a look back at the previous year and my look ahead to the next one. So until then Happy Christmas and Merry New Year or something like that.