@Foofie,
I'm tired of hearing the same pro-gun toting spiel,from the same handful of people, in almost every thread where we try to discuss another one of these shooting rampages, because none of these posters seems able to acknowledge that a similar and salient feature in all of these incidents is the type of weapon involved, and the fact that such weapons empower the shooter to rapidly kill many people in a matter of seconds, and the fact that we have insufficient regulation over the attainability of these weapons.
Whether there are other methods of killing people is beside the point. These are currently clearly the weapons of choice in most of the mass murders in this country in the past several years and some rational discussion of how better to regulate who purchases them, or whether the size of the clips should be limited, or even whether they should be available to just about anyone, seems essential if we want to stop the type of carnage we have been witnessing with alarming frequency.
That type of discussion is not going to happen with any of the pro-gun group that has been the most vocal in this thread and others of a similar nature. They aren't interested in anything beyond maintaining the status quo, and they aren't really interested in discussing anything about these specific deadly rampages. It's the same old, same old, from just about all of them. Even most NRA members agree that some common sense measures must be taken to help curb gun violence, but not this group. The particularly tragic nature of this latest incident, because it's targeted victims included 20 children who were only 6 and 7 years old, all of whom were slaughtered with multiple bullets, fired in a matter of seconds, seems to be rather acceptable collateral damage for their "right to bear arms".
I'd like to see some respect for the victims of this latest tragedy, the ones who paid the real price for that "right to bear arms", and that includes the families who now grieve these terrible losses. I'd like to see some recognition of these lives that were snuffed out, not by an act of nature, or a deadly disease, or an accident of some kind, but by a deliberate act of murder carried out by a gun.
These are the first two who will be buried today.
On the left is Jack Pinto, 6 years old.
Quote:(CNN) – A first-grader, Jack’s interests ran the gamut – baseball, basketball, wrestling, snow skiing. But his first love was football, and his idol was NY Giants star receiver Victor Cruz.
Cruz paid tribute to the team’s young fan by scribbling “Jack Pinto. My Hero” on one of his cleats and “R.I.P. Jack Pinto” on the other during the team’s game with the Atlanta Falcons over the weekend. On his glove, Cruz wrote, “Jack Pinto. This one is 4 U!”
“In life and in death, Jack will forever be remembered for the immeasurable joy he brought to all who had the pleasure of knowing him, a joy whose wide reach belied his six short years,” Jack’s family wrote in an obituary for the little boy.
http://wtvr.com/2012/12/17/newtown-victim-jack-pinto/
On the right in the above photo is Noah Pozner, who just turned 6 a month ago, and who was the youngest victim of the shooting rampage.
Quote:Noah was described by an uncle as "smart as a whip," with a rambunctious streak. His twin sister, Arielle, was also in the school Friday morning, but in a different classroom. She survived.
"They were always playing together, they loved to do things together," his uncle Alexis Haller said. "When his mother, a nurse, would tell him she loved him, he would answer, "Not as much as I love you, Mom."
http://www.ctpost.com/local/article/Mourners-gather-to-remember-Noah-Pozner-Jack-4123833.php#ixzz2FL6HRQ3o
Foofie is right...
Quote:All cats look grey in the dark, not all deaths; some are sadder than others...
And these deaths are particularly sad.
