The horrible tragedy, the massacre at the multiplex Century Theater in Aurora, Colorado this morning, needs to be treated as a wake up call for campaigning for strict gun control laws, similar to the Brady Bill passed under Bill Clinton, and ended under George W. Bush a decade later.
This should be an issue to unite Democrats and Republicans, but Democrats are afraid to promote gun control, as they lost control of Congress to the Republicans in 1994, with the Brady Bill being part of the reason.
Many Republicans and conservatives have the paranoid feeling that Barack Obama wishes to take away their gun rights under their interpretation of the Second Amendment.
The point is that no one is trying to say that ownership or purchase of guns should be banned, as that is impossible to accomplish, even if one wished to do that.
But after the Columbine Massacre in Colorado in 1999, the Virginia Tech Massacre in 2007, the shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in Tucson, Arizona, in 2011, and now this event, the worst total of victims ever in American history, it is essential to take some steps on gun control.
And to have Texas Republican Congressman Louie Gohmert, promote the insanity that if some of the people in the theater had had weapons, they could have stopped the massacre, forgetting that several people opening up fire in a theater would have led to innocent victims being killed by those “heroes”, who might very well be shooting at each other, in the midst of the chaos, is no contribution, but Gohmert is infamous for insane, reckless statements.
This is as insane as to say that it should be alright for students and faculty to have guns on campuses, or to carry weapons into a bar, where drunken patrons could begin shooting!
A level of sanity and stability needs to be addressed by President Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney in a way to bring about some legislation to cut down the level of violence, which right now makes America the most violent society in the world, with about 10,000 gun victims annually.
You my friend, are a hippy. Wake up! Think logically and realistically. Understand what the right to carry is and how it protects us from thugs and murderers. Murderers will always find a way to get weapons, even if there was more gun control. If they want to shoot up a school or a theater, they will find a way to do it. It takes the police on average 5 minutes to respond. That could easily be 100+ lives ended. They just dont let anybody carry a concealed weapon. You go through training and classes. Someone with a CC could easily stop a massacre like what happened today. 72 people shot within a few minutes. What if he would have kept going instead of leaving the theater? There would be even more deaths. Someone with a CC could have easily stopped this guy or atleast scared him off. Stop being so naive. Know your rights and freedoms and be proud of what our forefathers fought for. Be proud of what me and my fellow service members fight for every day. And flaunt your freedoms and show your pride in this great nation.