It’s the holiday season again which means a lot of people
going through depression. While it’s not
exactly true that there is a huge spike in suicides around this time of year it
is certainly true that there are more deaths due to cold and hunger. I’m not
sure why Christmas and Hanukah fall in the most depressing time of year. Maybe it was just a little piece of genius to
try and cheer everyone up? This year is
going to be especially sad for Newtown, CT and to make matters worse, we as a
society have become such a conglomerated group of insensitive politicians that
the bodies of those children had not even been removed from the school and
people were debating gun laws. I found
it pretty disgusting on both sides; though I’m a pretty down the middle kind of
person I found the liberal tactics to be a little more evil. The conservative
arguments were predictable and straight forward, the liberal side made it a
point to both chide conservatives for using the incident and in the same
statement say that we need to start removing firearms from people. My own personal view is that no one should
have even mentioned these things until at least the children were buried. This is a time to support, help, console, and
aid that town and those people. I have
grown so tired of seeing the mad man’s face plastered all over the news. The media has in my opinion been fairly
irresponsible in the manner in which they have been putting out information. The public has been jumping to conclusions and
ultimately just using this as a way to push their own opinions on people. Before you speak think about this, a gun ban
won’t take one weapon off the streets, it will only change what is produced in
the future. There will still be
literally millions of these weapons out there.
I want to know why no one in the media has mentioned how stupid and
irresponsible that man’s mother was.
Call me insensitive but I’m just gonna call a spade a spade. That idiot of a woman had a son with serious
mental issues and she chose to take him to the gun range on a regular basis,
she chose to have several unsecured weapons in her home, she chose to leave him
alone quite often while she went to the bar (where she was described as “very
popular”), she chose to let him know she was going to have him committed, and
she chose to allow him to have a .22 rifle of his own. This woman was stupid. I want to know why people’s first reaction is
to push an agenda. I’m a Christian but I
don’t feel like you have to be a Christian, or even religious, to be a good
person. I’m already tired of seeing Christians
telling everyone that the only thing that could have prevented tragedy is
belief in a Christian god. I’m not aware
of very many shootings in Madrasas or Mesivtas.
I really wish that as a society our first reaction would have been to
push an agenda of sending help. I really
wish that I hadn't seen a political statement within the first 10 minutes after
the news broke. Lisa Ling’s first tweet,
minutes after the news, was “Why are we still not seriously talking about gun
control?” then a few minutes later she mentioned the families. I think that’s a pretty good representation
of both sides’ insensitivity. I just don’t
understand how or why we have become so self-centered as a society, maybe I’ll
address that in the next writing.
