A sad day of gun violence...

Being for or against gun control is irrelevant, the genie is out of the bottle and will never go back in. The people that spout out about how a forcibly unarmed society could happen again and point to Nazi Germany as an example are ill-informed often stupid historical cherry-pickers at best, or scared reactionary sheep - which is somewhat more forgivable - but more than likely they have an agenda. Praying to your God about it or to fix it is also irrelevant because there is no God. Once you realize this is a manmade phenomenon you can then begin to dissect the issue and learn from it. Greed and inequality create tension and infighting between the massive amounts of Have-Nots. The Have’s nurture, supply, and support this chaos because it helps them stay in power both financially (as the financiers of the hardware, be it guns, prisons, or otherwise) and socially (as the “Leaders” we look to to fix it thru legislation or spirituality). When so many scramble for what we perceive as so little we turn on each other and blame each other for our short comings. Guns are ubiquitous in our society not because some 200 year old slave owning rich guys said we should have them in case we have to lob some lead balls at the military if our leaders try and tax us too much, we are swimming in them because it makes a lot of money for a lot of powerful people and it speaks to our primal instincts. For 99.9% of the Homo Sapiens existence aggression, greed, and selfishness was a necessity. The powerful realize this and use it to their advantage. We needed aggression, greed and selfishness to live for the rest of the harsh day we woke up in to. Only since civilization began around 4000 years ago or so did those things begin to become non-important. Evolution takes many 100s of thousands of years to work, how do we pluck the very things out of our psyche that allowed us to rise to dominance in the first place? Violence and gun-culture are a part of who we are because that is who the Homo Sapien is. I’m more apt to say that civilization is an evolutionary dead end than anything else. We don’t commit violence because we play 1^st person shooter video games, we play 1^st person shooter video games because we want to commit violence and still go to sleep in our nice warm beds at night. People will ask for answers for why these things happen and the answer is simple. Humans are violent selfish beings. Our greatest goal should be to circumvent our instincts, to trick our nature into trusting that altruism is more important than dominance, that caring for one another returns dividends much more healthy than owning all the properties on the Boardwalk. Look to man to fix man, Start with education, start with deductive reasoning… not some bearded guy cloud surfing, or some rich guy giving you Band-Aids after he sold you grenades. The enemy is within all of us. We can overcome, we have to or we won’t be around to cry about it much longer.