U.S. Gun Violence and the Hypocrisy of ‘Shock’
U.S. Gun Violence and the Hypocrisy of ‘Shock’
In the July 21, 2012 Chicago Tribune’s (LA Times affiliate) front page story: ‘Anybody And Anyone, He Just Didn’t Care,’about the shootings in a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado— a similar front page headline and story repeated across the country— there was not one mention of the absurdity of American gun laws that allowed the shooter, James Eagen-Holmes, with no prior police record, to have in his possession: an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle, a .40-caliber Glock handgun and a Remington 12-gauge shotgun (with a second Glock in his car).
Whether it is the mass shooting in a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, or in a mall outside Tucson, Arizona a year and a half ago, killing 6 while putting a bullet into the head of a U.S. Congresswoman, or the largest gun killing spree in the U.S. on a Virginia Tech college campus in 2007, or another mass shooting at the Columbine High School in 1999, the common denominator IS NOT the psychological madness of the shooter, BUT THE psychological madness of a nation that pretends it doesn’t have a massive problem with a 200 year-old antiquated Constitutional Amendment of the ‘right to bear arms,’ which has lost ALL RELEVANCE from its original purpose.
