Guns....The Madness Continues

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A very interesting article from Michele Salcedo of Yahoo.com centers around both sides of the ever going gun debate. While New York mayor Michael Bloomberg, once a republican turned independent squares off with NRA head honcho Wayne LaPierre tackle these issues, the line's drawn wider. Bloomberg $12 million dollars into 'Mayors Against Illegal Guns', is a bill that is requiring background checks for anyone wanting to obtain a gun, while LaPierre claims that this will not help the situations of law abiding citizens, feeling less safe from those that can obtain guns with messy mental health issues. Calling the tactic "a dishonest premise" LaPierre claims that universal background checks stomps on those that are law abiding citizens who feel that their 2nd Amendment rights would be compromised due to the ever going gun violence in our country. The Sandy Hook massacre that killed 20 children and 6 adults, a movie theater blood bath that took eleven innocent lives,to the two teenage tragedies of unnecessary gun violence. In retrospect, the bill would also ban assault weapons that carries heavy ammunition rounds in high capacity magazines. 90% of Americans and 80% members of the NRA supports universal background checks. However, LaPierre adds that they would like to see Congress pass a law that would retrieve records of the mentally incompetent and dangerous individuals, better enforcement of federal gun laws, and beefed up penalties for illegal gun trafficking and third party purchases. If 'mentally challenged' perpetrators are to blame, you can also blame those of authority. Let's talk about East Cleveland, where two people were gunned down Bonnie & Clyde style after a high speed chase. Thirteen police officers stated that the couple inside the car were evading the police due to having weapons in their vehicle. 131 rounds were fired into the car, where it was later proven that there was no weapon in sight. Have we became our own worse enemies? Shoot first, ask questions when it's too late? Taking away guns is not going to solve all the deadly violence in our country, but how many more innocent people are going to be slaughtered like cattle just to make a point? Why does LaPierre feel that arming schools with security guards with bigger, nastier weapons are going to make our children, let alone, anyone feel safe again? To stop gun violence from strangers, the best solution is to arm people, *teachers included* with more guns, to stop gun violence is to add more gun violence. Does anybody see anything remotely wrong with this notion? We've become trigger happy that we can arm educators? You can't stop violence with more violence. That's not a solution, that's mentally incompetence in itself.