Gun violence is unacceptable

“There’s been another mass shooting in America – this time, in a community college in Oregon”, President Barack Obama said in a White House press statement. “But to me, it seems that we’re all insane if we as a country can’t take modest steps to reduce the carnage that leaves America resembling a battlefield”. “How can that be?” For starters, the American people can urge the president to be more proactive and less reactive.

What’s going on? Well, the debate over guns is hardly ever exclusively about background checks or other seemingly popular measures meant to curb gun violence. In the past decade, mass shootings have become so frequent in our culture – so indelibly ingrained into our collective consciousness – that they are now, more often than not, seen as a mere reconfirmation of our jaded view of American society.

By comparison, there have been 6,764 USA troops killed during the conflicts of Iraq and Afghanistan since the 2001 launch of campaigns in the Middle East region, according to the Georgia-based tracker iCasualties.org. Mass Shooting Tracker classifies a mass shooting as one that results in at least four people being shot. And while we agree that the mental health component should be part of legislative efforts to combat gun violence, that hardly replaces the need to do something about guns as well. We have even had many United States presidents who were avid hunters.

But experts say that’s just not enough to teach gun owners when to shoot and when to hold their fire, how to overcome tunnel vision, and how to determine which combatants are “good guys”. Dianne Feinstein would have you believe that they have an easy answer to this problem.

“If anyone is at all serious about changing any of this, they must address the root problems, and those are cultural decay, the glorification of evil, the devaluation of human life, the breakdown of the family and specifically the complete abdication of fathers”, Jindal wrote.

Chicago has a few of the strictest gun control laws in the country, yet, since these strict gun controls have been enacted, violent crime has skyrocketed by 50 percent. “I don’t think any parent should fear sending their child to school”.

Why? Because law-abiding citizens can no longer defend themselves against the people who will obtain weapons and kill regardless of the law. This pretty well sums up President Obama’s M.O., as he never misses an opportunity to go before the nation to promote his agenda for tighter gun control. “Since this is the first time something like this has happened, I don’t want to add any stress by saying, “Hey we did this” or ‘We didn’t do this.’ So, I just wont say yes or no”.

A proposal to expand background checks in 2013 failed to get the 60 votes needed to overcome a procedural hurdle.

Nick Meli was breaking the “no guns policy” at the mall, but there are many survivors who are glad he did.

Obama then promised to “politicize” the UCC shooting in order to begin moving the gun control debate. The killer was able to obtain his murder weapons because of a loophole in the law that allowed him to buy them even though the Federal Bureau of Investigation background check hadn’t been completed.