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The Connecticut Massacre
A few thoughts about the Connecticut Massacre:
We are so concerned that Iran may develop nuclear weapons, we waged a decade long war against Iraq out of some elusive suspicion that it concealed weapons of mass destruction, and then we allow our own citizens to carry weapons that achieve exactly the same result, mass destruction. The Connecticut massacre is yet another hideous example of this dangerous contradiction; in the world of each family that lost a child in this tragedy, the weapons the insane killer carried into the school were nuclear bombs that devastated their lives and scarred the survivors irreversibly.
We are concerned about the outside chance that second hand smoke may affect our precious health and banned cigarettes form every public place, but then allow ourselves to drink until we can’t tell the moon from the headlights of incoming traffic, or until we can spray bullets over the crowd as if they were innocuous party confetti.
This really needs to stop. In society our freedom must end where the freedom of others begins… as easy to grasp a concept as it seems to be irreconcilable a social principle.
I respect everyone’s hobby and passion, some love to walk aggressive dogs, some to climb onto a ring to punch the living shiver out of a boxing champion, some enjoy to shoot living beings, deer or quails. Regrettably violence remains the most evident trait of our incomplete evolution, our most primitive instinct. But when that violence crosses the line and penetrates someone else’s life, be it the sensual rings of cigarette smoke, the pungent fumes of alcohol, the terrifying mushroom of an atomic bomb, or the unforgiving shiny bullets of an assault rifle, we need to send in our troops and end that threat.
Leave alone Iran and North Korea, Syria and Iraq, we have weapons of mass destruction in every city and county in the United States Of America… and they ain’t no threat, they are for real and they are killing us, as I write this !!
RE: The Connecticut Massacre (in reply to gj Michelob)
All of these shootings are a mental health issue--NOT a gun issue. This was obvious before information about a possible personality disorder made its way into the media. I'll put the blame for the low quality of mental health services on the different helping professions that have lobbied states for the right to protect the business interests of their members. This has been at the expense of the general public and every subsequent mass killing is more proof that fundamental changes have to be made in training of professionals in the assessment and provision of MH services. Remember that many of the societal changes that have taken place in the USA in the last century were at the behest of so-called "social scientists".
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RE: The Connecticut Massacre (in reply to gj Michelob)
Whilst I understand the sentiments, I am going to lock his discussion for a while. It is too raw. We are a flamenco forum, not a platform for pro or anti-gun opinions of the USA at this time.
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