Feel free
to fill in the blank as you feel fit, blame whomever and/or whatever you want
when someone does something stupid and/or wrong, as long as it keeps the blame
off of who it rightfully belongs on, which is the person themselves and/or the
parents depending on the overall situation.
Was it the
music they listened to, was it the video games they played or was it the devil
himself who caused them to act the fool and shoot up a school or blow up a
building full of innocent people?
It had to
be something other than their own minds and evil desires because we all know
they wouldn't have done that without some kind of outside influence, it’s just
not possible…at least that’s what we tell ourselves.
People find
it difficult to believe that there are crazy individuals with corrupt minds who
walk amongst us, who would do something heinous regardless of what they
listened to and/or watched on television?
Is it
because we view ourselves as the superior species on this planet, we are on the
top of the pyramid and everything else is beneath us, so there is no way we
could do things of a horrendous nature without something/one in our ear telling
us to do it?
Is it just
a way to comfort ourselves, like a baby blanket and/or pacifier was for a kid
during a bad thunderstorm, to make us believe that there is no evil in this
world, that everything and everyone is good and wholesome with no bad
intentions and/or thoughts of wrong doing?
I’m sure
someone like James Holmes would still
have shot up the movie theater that night in Aurora,
Colorado, even if he only watched Veggie Tales movies and listened to
Mozart, the freak was just a mental case of dynamite that was just waiting to
explode on us normal people.
Parents didn't hug them enough, they listened to a record backwards,
the show they watched on television glorified and/or promoted violence/rape,
this list of excuses can go on and on but the bottom-line is blaming
someone/thing else doesn't solve anything, just hinders the solution.
Now I’m not saying there aren't legitimate cases of people
doing things due to an outside influence, whether it is good or bad, but I
refuse to believe that every time something negative happens that it’s the
fault of someone/thing else, it’s just not possible.
Stop pointing the finger, stop looking for a scapegoat, we
will never correct the issues at hand if we don’t face them head on and do what’s
necessary to correct them. We will never advance as a civilization if we don’t,
it’s a matter of life and death here people, so get with the program.
It’s unfortunate for sure, but the reality of it is that
we do have living and breathing screwballs blending in with the masses
pretending to be one of us, who want nothing more than to cause havoc and ruin
our lives, to think otherwise would be utterly foolish and ultimately
dangerous.
So until we figure all this out, and start placing the
blame where it belongs, I say we forget banning guns and allow everyone to
carry a piece like as if it was the Wild West. Sure this gives the crazies a
weapon, but it also gives us regular people one too, so we will have a fighting
chance against the freaks.
If the people handing out the firearms thought for a
second that the recipient was off their rocker, a few eggs short of a dozen or
not the sharpest knife in the drawer, as a precaution they could give them one
of those gag guns that when fired just shoots out a flag that read “bang”.
Of course judging a book by its cover isn't always the
best way to go about things, so if they accidentally gave one of those gag guns
to the wrong person and they lost in a duel to a whack job because of it, we
could just consider it taking one for the team.
Chris Rock said it best...