This evening a man in South Carolina shot a little 8 year-old girl to death.
How many times a week do we read stories like this - innocent people shot to death by a gun owner. We're told that people need guns for personal protection and to defend us from a rogue government, but every day we read of angry gun owners shooting a wife or girlfriend or their children or someone they hate. They shoot abortion doctors, they shoot guards at museums, they shoot someone to make a statement, they shoot classmates, they shoot someone hoping the police will shoot them, now so common that it has a name, "Suicide by Police."
While I'm sure gun zealots feel sad about the victims, they have historically refused to do ANYthing to effectively stop these killings. They respond by blaming the victims for not arming themselves.
Sure, there are laws that are supposed to prevent criminals and the mentally unbalanced from owning guns, but as we all know from reading the tragic stories in the news everyday, those laws are unenforceable. Just look at the man who shot this little girl:
So why did he have a gun? Who cares? Certainly not the gun lobby.
Why are these laws unenforceable? Because the gun lobby doesn't want the laws to be enforceable. In fact, if they had their way (and they usually do) everyone would be allowed to own any gun they want, in whatever number they want, with no accountability whatsoever. They want everyone in America to be armed.
Oh, they scream and bleat and beat their chest about how much they hate criminals and assure us that they want to keep guns out of the hands of those who shouldn't have one. If that's true then the NRA would be outraged that this child killer with a long criminal record had a gun. They would demand that the South Carolina authorities investigate how this man got his gun and would demand that the person or gun shop that sold him the gun, or neglected to take it away from him once he was convicted of a felony (assuming he had committed one) be identified and punished.
It won't happen. It never happens, in fact sometimes the shooter is even a member of the NRA. I called and asked the NRA once how many members a year are purged from their rolls because they were convicted of a felony. They said they wouldn't divulge that information. Why? Wouldn't that send the right message, that the NRA doesn't tolerate members who commit felonies?
The little girl who was shot was named Heather Brooke Center. She only got to spend eight years on earth. Think of her for a moment because what she was today is all she'll ever be.
--Trakker
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