Well, here we go again. Another idiot monster—this time in a
movie theater in Aurora, Colorado—has killed a bunch of innocent people—men,
women and children—who were only trying to enjoy themselves with friends and
loved ones. Many of the people who were
gunned down showed admirable courage, shielding others with their bodies,
sacrificing their lives to save others. I am in awe of such people and hope
that their lives will be celebrated.
These heroes deserve to be remembered.
Ironically, I suspect that the murderer who savagely killed these innocents
wanted to be remembered for something. He will be. We can try to understand his
horrendous acts and motivations, but I propose that it cannot be understood by
good and moral people. The truth is that only one person deserved to die in that theater that night.
And here we go again pointing fingers. Regrettably, it did
not take long for the gun control people out there to start clamoring for
tighter restrictions on firearms. It has been argued that guns don't kill people, people kill be people. Evil people murder people, by what ever method they choose to do it. It should be remembered that roughly a year
ago, a Norwegian looney murdered over 70 people on an island retreat in Norway.
Norway, by the way, has some of the strictest gun control laws in the world. In
fact, many more murders—more than four-times as many—happen in states and
cities in the US where strict gun laws are in force than in areas where gun
laws are less stringent. Where conceal-carry
laws exist, violent crimes involving guns are much fewer.
I cannot help but wonder how many people could have been
saved if everyone in the theater had been “packing heat”. I guarantee you that if I had been there, or
my brothers, or my gun-toting children had been in the audience we could have
stopped the idiot with several bullets to his face. Of course, if the little
coward had suspected that some of the theater audience was armed, as might be the
case in a town where conceal-carry is the law, he would undoubtedly taken performance
art elsewhere. Only cowards do such
things, brutally murdering the defenseless.
I cannot think of a time when a mass murder took place at a police
station. Please do not mention the crazies in the Muslim world who blow up car bombs
and themselves at police stations. Those COWARDS are in another category and I
believe it is illegal for them to possess explosives in their respective
countries. What if all the passengers on the doomed flights on 9--11 had had box-cutters? I'm confident that the three planes where the passengers did not fight back would never have gotten to to the terrorist's targets. If anything, we as Americans need to go further in protecting ourselves from the evil that is out there.
And here I go again. I also want to say it should be clear
that the death penalty is more than appropriate for this human waste. He condemned
12 innocents to death and should get the same. It is lamentable that he can
only be put to death once. Many will say that the death penalty is not a deterrent
to capital crime, but though it can be argued that it definitely deters the
murderer from ever committing murder again, in my mind deterrence is not the
only compelling reason for it. The murderer, who takes an innocent life without
compunction or for the thrill of it or some sort of self-aggrandizement, is not
worthy of life among other human beings, in or out of a prison. We in society
should not have to care for, and feed and clothe them, or keep them safe from
other prison populations. Many in society refuse to acknowledge the humanity of
the unborn among us and willing standby as millions of abortions—the death penalty
of the unwanted—are performed every year, but blanch at the thought of ending
the life of someone who has ceased to be human in their treatment of their fellow
man. The Aurora mass-murderer gave up his membership in the human club when he
decided to act on an inhuman impulse. He probably wanted to be somebody. I hope
that he will soon leave his body.
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