08-30-2020, 06:27 PM
(08-30-2020, 09:37 AM)GMDino Wrote: Kid had issues. Unfortunately he went along with the "everyone else is at fault, get me a gun" way of dealing with it.Guns are merely tools. They serve a specific purpose. No more, no less. If viewed through that lens, then there's nothing inherently wrong with them. Unfortuanely, there's a huge culture in this country that uses them to define themselves. They wear them on their shirts and put their stickers on their bumpers just to let you know that they might pew pew you if you hurt their widdle feewings. A gun can make a walking joke with no self esteem feel like the Punisher himself, ready to water the tree of liberty with the blood of patriots and libz, and maybe some brown folk if they get uppity enough. The best part is, all you need to buy one is some money and the cognitive function to answer some basic questions. It's a magic pill, like the star or the mushroom in Mario Brothers. Suddenly the fat kid or the gamer nerd gets to be Charles Bronson or Dirty Harry. Congratulations, loser! You're a Constitutional Warrior now! Now find that local militia an get to watering.
His parents are just as much to blame. (Maybe they feel the same?)
Bullying is bad. It does not make people better or tougher. Nor does fighting. We've already had that argument around here.
Also teens can be awful and provoke kids who are easily provoked into doing something out of anger/frustration.
And, again, this kid decided that going to another city in another state with a gun was his way of "helping".
Then, when confronted, he killed two people.
It's bad all the way around and it really speaks to out gun culture in this country and how people can be led to think that violence is the best solution.
Guns are the saddest form of self-definition. So sad that we have so many folks in this country with so little self worth that they must define themselves by inanimate objects that fill the void for any real worthy attribute.
